Missouri enters the United States as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
16th United States President
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
Use of the North's superior navy to prevent the south from shipping cotton to foreign countries for weapons and supplies.
What is the Union Blockade
100
What state was the first to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina?
100
Invention that led to the exponential growth of slavery
What is the cotton gin
200
Stated that slaves were property and did not have the right to sue
What is the Dred Scott Decision
200
During a ten-year span, SHE made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. SHE never lost a passenger.
Who is Harriet Tubman
200
Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln used to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the battle of Antietam
200
Secret Organization that used violence to intimidate freedmen and Republicans.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan
200
Name of the movement to end slavery
What is abolition
300
California enters the Union as a free state and the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
Known as a slave who lived in free states, his case made it all the way to the supreme court, but he was denied because the judge claimed slaves are property rather than citizens, and only citizens can argue in court.
Who is Dred Scott
300
Battle that was thought to be the turning point of the Civil War. The battle was the last time that the South tried to invade the North
What is the battle of Gettysburg
300
The main reason for seceding the Union in 1861.
The Election of 1860...Abraham Lincoln
300
States rights issue that dealt with tariffs
What is the Nullification Crisis
400
Georgia's response to the Compromise of 1850
What is the Georgia Platform
400
Strong advocate for slavery and State's rights. He became the president of the Confederate State of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis
400
A path of destruction that was 300 miles long and 60 miles wide from Atlanta to Savannah.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea
400
Which State and city became the Confederate capital?
What is Richmond, Virginia?
400
Stated that all slaves in rebellious states would be forever free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
500
Allowing political decisions to be made by the will of the people
What is Popular Sovereignty
500
The Union and Confederate generals who collided at the Battle of Antietam.
Who is Robert E. Lee and George McClellan?
500
Second bloodiest battle of the Civil war and the North's plan to capture the major railroad hubs of Chattanooga and Atlanta.
What is the battle of Chickamauga
500
The reason South Carolina wanted out of the Union was over State's Rights. South Carolina didn't want to pay Union _____.
Taxes/Tarrifs
500
Private Citizens who took the risk of evading the Union Blockade for the chance at huge profits