He raided the arsenal at Harper's Ferry hoping to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
100
After he was elected President, South Carolina seceded from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
His Anaconda Plan was originally dismissed by the Union, but ended up being the strategy that provided a Union Victory.
Who is Winfield Scott?
100
People from around Washington, D.C. gathered with picnic baskets to watch this first real battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle at Bull Run?
100
Lincoln issued this after the Battle of Antietam, freeing all slaves in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The Supreme Court told him that slaves were property and not citizens of the United States.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
An abolitionist who published the newspaper "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
His plan of "total war" played out when he burned Atlanta and destroyed everything in his path to Savannah.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
200
On April 12, 1861, Confederate guns fired on this southern fort beginning the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
He was shot by friendly fire and later died from complications of pnemonia. He earned a famous nickname that stuck with him after the First Battle at Bull Run.
Who is General Stonewall Jackson?
300
This law required police in free states to help capture slaves escaping from slave states.
What is Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
300
He was elected President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
He was a respected leader and was originally offered the position of Commander of the Union Army by Abraham Lincoln. He refused the offer and became the Commander of the Confederate Army instead.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
In 1862, the battle between these two iron-clad ships ended when neither side could destroy the other.
What is the Monitor and the Merrimack?
300
President Lincoln declared a battlefield a national cemetery for the Union soldiers and delivered this famous speech there.
What is Gettysburg Address?
400
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous book about the evils of slavery.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
400
An escaped slave who wrote books and made speeches about the wrongdoings of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
This Union general was fired by Abraham Lincoln because he hesitated to pursue the Confederate Army at the Battle of Antietam.
Who is General George McClellan?
400
General George Pickett led his famous charge, "Pickett's Charge," during this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
General George McClellan found this before the Battle of Antietam giving him and his army a great advantage.
What are Lee's battle plans wrapped around 3 cigars?
500
In 1854, Congress passed this act that allowed popular sovereignty to the people living in these territories over the issue of slavery.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
She was a famous nurse for the Union Army. George McClellan called the "angel of the battlefield."
Who is Clara Barton?
500
He won many battles in the West, including Vicksburg. He demanded an "unconditional surrender" from the Confederate soldiers meaning to surrender to his conditions.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This battle allowed the Union army to gain control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
This is the place where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.