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President of the Union
Lincoln
100
Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Compromise of 1850?
100
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
In which state did the beginning of the Civil War take place?
South Carolina (Charleston/Fort Sumter)
100
This was the beginning of the American Civil War
Fort Sumter
100
Northern and Southern states had continuous debates over which issue?
Slavery
200
General of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
200
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
200
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
200
In which place did the Union take control of the Mississippi River and split the confederacy in two?
Vicksburg, MS
200
This speech was given after the Battle of Gettysburg by President Lincoln encouraging the Union to keep fighting.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
This man raided Harper's Ferry and attempted to start a slave rebellion, but was later arrested by Robert E. Lee and executed for his crimes.
John Brown
300
Union General
Ulysses S. Grant
300
Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
This Civil War Battle divided the Confederacy in two and gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
In which state did the last battle on Union soil take place?
Gettysburg, PA
300
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the evils of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
Confederate President
Jefferson Davis
400
This law canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
The single bloodiest day in United States History and in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
In which state did the Gettysburg Address take place?
Gettysburg, PA
400
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This man was an abolitionist and former slave who traveled the US sharing his experiences as a slave and even met with Lincoln in the white house.
Frederick Douglas
500
The man responsible for the idea of "Total War" and destroying the south's economy.
William T. Sherman
500
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
In which state did the "turning point" of the Civil War take place?
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
500
This event was known as the end of the Civil War
Appomattox Courthouse
500
William Lloyd Garrison wrote this newspaper to publish stories of former slaves and spread the abolitionist message.
The Liberator