Who gave the famous speeches "Emancipation Proclamation" and "The Gettysburg Address"?
Abraham Lincoln
100
This compromise stated that all new states entering the union with a latitude north of the 36'30' line would be free states
The Missouri Compromise
100
The years the Civil War was fought
1861-1865
100
What is a tax on imported goods
tariff
200
What is the first battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
200
Who was the commander of the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What is the law that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for Kansas and Nebraska to organize on the basis of Popular Sovereignty
Kansas - Nebraska Act
200
What year did congress pass the Missouri Compromise?
1820
200
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
300
What is the bloodiest single-day battle of the war?
Battle of Antietam
300
Who was the commander of the Confederate army that surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865?
Robert E. Lee
300
What is the compromise that allowed California to become a free state?
Compromise of 1850
300
What is the date that Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomatox Courthouse, VA?
April 9, 1865
300
What is the law that forced escaped slaves to return to their owners
Fugitive Slave Law
400
The north captured this city to gain control of the Mississippi River and divided the Southern states
Vicksburg
400
This transcendentalist refused to pay taxes because he did not want to support a government that allowed slavery and fought a war with Mexico.
Henry David Thoreau
400
This tariff was referred to "The Tariff of Abominations" by the South
Tariff of 1828
400
The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed in this year
1854
400
Name three causes of the Civil War
Sectionalism, States' Rights, and Slavery
500
Where did Lee surrender to Grant that brought the war to a close?
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
500
This confederate general got shot by his own troops and died
Stonewall Jackson
500
What is the landmark supreme court case in 1857 that confirmed the status of slaves as property rather than citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
500
What is the year of the Dred Scott v. Sanford Case
1857
500
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Name the amendment.