Battle considered the turning point of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
100
The Compromise of 1850 prohibited the slave trade here
What is the District of Columbia?
100
Proposal that suggested outlawing the spread of slavery in the territories gained in the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
Four border states during the Civil War
What are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
200
President of the United States immediately prior to Abraham Lincoln
Who was James Buchanan?
200
Site of Union victory; gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union
What is Vicksburg?
200
Transcendental writer who protested against slavery and the Mexican War by practicing civil disobedience
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
200
Proposal to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850s, by force if necessary
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
200
Site of most significant draft riot in the North in 1863
What is New York City?
300
Senator who promoted the idea of popular sovereignty in the territories.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
300
Two iron-clad vessels that fought each other
What were the Monitor and the Merrimac?
300
Place where John Brown attempted to raid a federal arsenal to provoke a slave uprising
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
300
Law ruled unconstitutional in the Dred Scott Decision
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Term to describe the type of warfare waged by General Sherman in his March to the Sea
What is total war?
400
General named by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Army of the Potomac
Who was George McClellan?
400
Site of devastating battle fought in Tennessee in 1862
What is Shiloh?
400
Locations of the 2 capitals of the Confederate States of America
What are Montgomery, Alabama and Richmond, Virginia?
400
Law that granted 160 acres of government land to any person who farmed it for at least 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
400
Term used to refer to Confederate sympathizers in the North
What was a Copperhead?
500
Became President after Zachary Taylor died; was nominated by the Know-Nothing Party in 1856
Who was Millard Fillmore?
500
Union victory here allowed President Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam?
500
Document submitted by pro-slavery leaders in territorial Kansas that put no restrictions on slavery
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
500
Percentage of registered voters in Confederate state who needed to take an oath of loyalty in order for a state to be readmitted to the Union under President Lincoln's plan
What is 10?
500
Adventurer who attempted to add slave lands to America by invading Baja California, Nicaragua, and Honduras