Before the Civil War
End of the War
Influenced the war
People 1
People 2
Odds and Ends
100
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south
100
Who Killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilks Booth
100
Lincoln Honored the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg in what speech?
In the Gettysburg Address
100
Who Was Harriett Beecher Stowe?
The author of Uncle Tome's Cabin
100
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The President of the Confederacy
100
To accuse a government official of doing something wrong or improper
Impeach
200
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that?
Slaves were property, and congress could not take away a person's right to his property by passing a law
200
The document that freed all slave in the Confederacy was called the...?
The Emancipation Proclamation
200
Which union strategy kept the Confederates from selling cotton and buying supplies?
Naval Blockades
200
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
200
Civil War nurse, and founder of the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
200
The rights that all citizens are supposed to have according to the Constitution and its amendments
Civil Rights
300
A secret organization that helped slaves scape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
300
The government organization set up to assist former slaves was called the ...?
Freedmen's Bureau
300
The act of setting someone or something free
emancipation
300
Who was Frederick Douglass?
An escaped slave who became and abolitionist
300
General Sherman was famous for?
His march to the sea
300
The states that made up the United States of America; during the Civil War.
The Union
400
A person who worked to end slavery during the 1700's and 1800's
Abolitionist
400
It ratified amendments to the constitution to secure the right to vote and a fair trial for black Southerners.
It threw out state governments that had passed Black Codes.
It refused to allow Confederate leaders back into Congress.
Congressional Reconstruction
400
Who's victory at Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
Ulysses S. Grant
400
The Union general whose main strategy was to fight and wear down the enemy was?
Ulysses S. Grant
400
What was Lincoln's problem with General McClellan?
McClellan was too reluctant to attack the enemy.
400
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War
Reconstruction
500
Which battle started the Civil War?
The battle at Fort Sumter
500
A secret society that fought violently against equal rights for African American people.
The Ku Klux Klan
500
An official change or addition to the Constitution.
Constitutional amendment
500
Which confederate general was famous for his ability to move and attack quickly?
Stonewall Jackson
500
Which man led the attack on the U. S. government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, in the hope of giving guns to slaves?
John Brown
500
To formally withdraw membership
Secede