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The Country Seperates
The War
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Vocabulary
People
100
He was an enslaved African who sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state.
Who was Dred Scott?
100
The battle here lasted for three days and was the turning point of the war.
Where was Gettysburg?
100
This Amendment to the United States Constitution gave African-American men the right to vote in elections.
What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
100
A 100th year celebration.
What is a centennial?
100
A famous "conductor" on the Undergroud Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
200
After his debates, Lincoln became known as this.
What was "Honest Abe"?
200
One of the bloodiest battles of the was fought in Maryland on this creek.
What was Antietam Creek?
200
Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by this man.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
To bring legal action against a person to settle a difference.
What is to sue?
200
A Confederate general who "stood like a stone wall" during battle.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
He led the marines who captured John Brown during his raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
300
The Civil War began with the attack on this fort.
What was Fort Sumter?
300
This secret organization was formed to keep African Americans from voting and living free under the Constitution.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
300
The crime of attempting to overthrow the government.
What is treason?
300
He debated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 U.S. Senate race.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
400
After Lincoln was elected President, several states voted to leave this.
What was the Union?
400
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
Congress tried to get rid of President Johnson by this process.
What was impeachment?
400
A place used to make or store military weapons.
What is an arsenal?
400
He was an abolitionist who believed only violence could end slavery.
Who was John Brown?
500
By the election of 1856, the country was becoming more seperated by the issue of this.
What was slavery?
500
President Lincoln gave this at a dedication of a national ceremony.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
500
This agency was supposed to help formerly enslaved people and poor white southerners find jobs.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
A military ship covered in iron plates.
What is an ironclad?
500
This general was elected President because many people thought that he had saved the Union during the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?