Ken Burns
"This Just In"
Abolitionist Agitators
The Great Emancipator
Manassas
100

Sullivan Ballou, who died at the Battle of Bull Run, wrote letter to this family member  explaining his devotion to the Union Cause.

Who was his wife?

100

This law, which angered Northern abolitionists, awarded federal judges a five dollar bonus if they returned people to slavery.

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

100

This fiery radical, who raised his hand and consecrated his life against slavery while standing in the back of a church, led an ill-starred attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 

Who is John Brown?

100

This town, which is the capital of Illinois, is the place where Abraham Lincoln lived when he was elected president.

What is Springfield?

100

This creek, which is located near the Virginia City of Manassas, is where the first major battle of the civil war was fought.

What is Bull Run?

200

This Union officer, who was regarded as the best military mind in the country, turned down Lincoln's offer of a command to lead the Army of Northern Virginia.

Who was Robert E. Lee?

200

This controversial law, passed by Congress in 1854, allowed the voters of western territories to decide the question of slavery.

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

200

This famous abolitionist, who was born in Maryland, published a newspaper called the North Star.

Who was Frederick Douglass?

200

This Kentucky born woman, who was the daughter of a slaveholding banker, became Abraham Lincoln's wife in 1842.

Who was Mary Todd?

200

This Confederate General, who led a brigade, earned this nickname for his rock-solid defense of center of the Rebel line.

Who was Stonewall Jackson?

300

This South Carolina belle, who promised that here "subjective days are over," kept a diary all through the war. 

Who was Mary Chesnut?

300

This controversial court case, decided in 1857, was based on a enslaved man who tried to sue for his own freedom.

What was the Dred Scott Decision?

300

This famous abolitionist, who published a newspaper called The Liberator, once burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

300

During these famous political interlocutions, which occurred during the race for an  Illinois Senate seat in 1858,  Lincoln told voters that "A House Divided Against itself cannot stand."

What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?

300

This humiliating term, which was given to the Union Army's fleeing of the battlefield, really shows that the Union army was not yet "Great."

What was the Great Skedaddle?

400

This person, who came from the North, invented a machine that could "make slavery profitable."

Who iwas Eli Whitney?

400

This Act of Congress, which was passed in 1820, had the goal of maintaining a balance between slave and free states.

What was the Missouri Compromise?

400

This Illinois abolitionist, who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob, had his printing press thrown in the Mississippi River.

Who was Elijah P. Lovejoy?

400

This campaign nickname, which was intended to show Lincoln's frontier roots, looked back to his days as a manual laborer.

What was "The Railsplitter?"

400

This general, who was nicknamed "Little Mac" and "The American Napoleon," was put in charge of the Union Army after the debacle at Manassas.

Who was George B. McClellan?

500

This University of Mississippi historian, who received seven offers of marriage when the documentary originally aired in 1990, believed that the war was caused by a "failure to compromise."

Who was Shelby Foote?

500

This Supreme Court Justice, who was originally appointed to the court by Andrew Jackson, denied that African-Americans had any right to citizenship.

Who was Roger B. Taney?

500

Abraham Lincoln may have remarked to this woman, who wrote a book detailing the cruelties of slavery, "so you are the little woman who started this great war."

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

500

This Presidential Order, which took effect on January 1, 1863, freed the slaves in rebelling states--but did not affect slaves in states that remained in the Union.

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

500

This small Virginia city, located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., was home to Robert E. Lee's plantation.

What is Arlington?