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The Road to War
The Civil War
Reunion and Reconstruction
100
The law under the Compromise of 1850 that stated that northerners had to help capture escaped slaves and return them.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
100
The proclamation that freed slaves.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The agreement that let Republican Rutherford Hayes become president, and brought all of the federal troops out of the south.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
200
The case where slaves sued for their freedom.
What was the Dred Scott Case?
200
The deadliest battle of the civil war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The agency that helped African Americans get jobs, and get fair treatment.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
The act that earned Kansas the name Bleeding Kansas.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
The campaign led by General William Tecumseh Sherman that sliced a path sixty miles wide through Georgia.
What was the "march to the sea"?
300
The laws that limited the rights of African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
400
The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made Americans ask themselves if it was right for one man to have power over another.
What was "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
400
Robert E Lee's most valuable general who was shot by his own troops.
Who was Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
The plan devised by Abraham Lincoln to rebuild and reunite the Union.
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
500
The outbreak in the congress when a southern congressman attacked a northern congressman.
What was the Sumner-Brooks Affair?
500
The plan devised by General Winfield Scott to block all supplies to the south by sea, cut their army in half, and then take Richmond.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
500
The act that limited President Johnson's power.
What was the Tenure of Office Act?