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"Bleeding Kansas"
Secession and War
The Balance Sheet
The Union Victory
100
This fanatical abolitionist gathered a group of men who murdered 5 pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek
Who is John Brown
100
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina
100
This man earned his nickname when he saved the day at the Battle at Bull Run. His troops created a "wall" of soldiers to hold back the Union.
Who is Stonewall Jackson
100
Bloodiest one-day battle in American history.
What is Antietam
200
This act added Nebraska as a free state and Kansas as a slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
200
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the battle at Bull Run
200
The supreme military commander of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
This charge was a significant failure for the Confederacy during the Battle at Gettysburg.
What is Pickett's Charge
300
Winner of the Election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln
300
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
300
What was the initial Confederate strategy for the War?
What is "hold on until the North gave up"
300
This man led a Union army on the "March to the Sea" to Savannah, Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
400
Man who delivered speech denouncing slavery while attacking Senator Butler from South Carolina in the process.
Who is Senator Charles Sumner
400
The North tried to resupply this fort near Charleston, but not before the South attacked it on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter
400
What advantages did the South have over the North at the beginning of the Civil War?
What is easier cause (independence), on the defensive, on own terrain.
400
Courthouse where Southern forces surrendered to Union forces on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Courthouse
500
Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled that blacks were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
500
City where the Constitutional Convention of the Confederate States of America was held.
What is Montgomery, Alabama.
500
What advantages did the North have over the South at the beginning of the Civil War?
What is larger population, stronger economy, strong government, good system of transport (railroads), strong navy.
500
Supreme military commander of the Union forces during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant