The leader of the South's Army and was regarded as one of the best
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
The document that stated slaves in rebel territories were to be set free was known as
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Economic system where choice is key and there is little government control
What is free enterprise?
100
These two people planned the Seneca Falls Convention and were the two leading advocates for women's suffrage
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
100
The power of judicial review came from this Supreme Court case
What is Marbury v. Madison?
200
Elected President of the United States in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The turning point battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This is how the Constitution is changed
What are Amendments?
200
The Grimke sisters were known for their speeches for what movement
What is the abolition movement?
200
The sharing or division of power between the states and the national or federal government
What is federalism?
300
After the election of Abraham Lincoln this started happening
What is the secession of Southern states from the Union?
300
The final surrender of Robert E. Lee took place here
What is Appomattox Court House?
300
This person was an abolitionist that was a slave and wrote a book about his experiences
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
The movement to abolish the sale and consumption of alcohol was
What is the Temperance movement?
300
The Three-Fifths compromise did this
What is determined how slaves would be counted for the purpose of determining representation?
400
This Union General became famous because of his seige on Vicksburg
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This invention spurred the growth of slavery in the south
What is the Cotton Gin?
400
This person was a transcendentalist writer who refused to pay taxes in protest over the Mexican War
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
This person fought to reform the prison system for the mentally ill and children
Who is Dorothea Dix?
400
The Great Compromise was a compromise at the Constitutional Convention in which these two plans were debated in the setting up of the legislative branch
What are the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
500
The Union gained control of this important landform as a result of their victory at Vicksburg
What is the Mississippi River?
500
After the war, those people who rented the land and remained in debt to plantation owners were known as
What is tenant farmers?
500
The primary advocate in the creation of public schools was
Who is Horace Mann?
500
The Supreme Court justice who set a precedent
Who is John Marshall?
500
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by this former slave