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His primary goal after being elected and throughout the war was to preserve the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
His election in 1860 motivated South Carolina and other Southern states to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
This was the opening confrontation of the war in South Carolina.
What is Ft. Sumpter?
100
This famous former slave encouraged Lincoln to use former slaves in the Union army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
The war ended when Gen. Lee surrendered in April 1865 here.
What is Appomatox Court House?
200
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
What is "secede"
200
He was the President of the Confederacy after its secession.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This extremely deadly battle in Maryland inspired Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
200
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired many more Northerners to become abolitionists.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
200
South Carolina seceded from the Union after this.
What is the election of President Lincoln?
300
Prior to the war the US was divided by great differences in different regions known as this.
What is "sectionalism"
300
He debated Lincoln in Illinois and favored popular sovereignty for territories.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
This 3-day battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
300
Frederick Douglass advocated for passing this Amendment which ended slavery forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Before the war, he led an attempted slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
400
Armed conflict between pro and anti-slavery forces in Kansas was a result of this Act.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
He accepted the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
General Winfield Scott developed this plan for defeating the South with a blockade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
William Lloyd Garrison published this antislavery newspaper.
What is The Liberator?
400
Following the war, many Southern cities were left this.
What is destroyed?
500
This Supreme Court case allowed slavery to expand into the US territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
500
Following the Civil War, this Confederate General urged Southerners to reconcile and 
rejoin the US.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
The battle of the Monitor vs. Merrimac near Hampton Roads is famous for being the first confrontation of these.
What are ironclads?
500
This political party was founded in 1854 and opposed the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
500
The Confederate strategy to win the war was to gain this as soon as possible.
What are foreign alliances and recognition?