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March to War (Civil War Causes)
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The leader of the Union army at the conclusion of the war and the 18th president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
100
The single deadliest battle in the Civil War with over 51,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)?
100
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
This 1820 Act drew a line of latitude across the Missouri border and declared new states to the north would be free and new states to the south would be slave.
What is The Missouri Compromise of 1820?
100
The name of the POW camp in Georgia that was known for inhumane treatment of union prisoners of war.
What is Andersonville?
200
The general of the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War.
Who was Robert E Lee?
200
The single bloodiest day in American history with almost 23,000 casualties.
What is the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg, Maryland)?
200
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The leader of an 1831 slave rebellion that ended in the deaths of 60 whites and the executions of 55 slaves who took park in this rebellion.
Who was Nat Turner?
200
The total cost of the Civil War in dollars.
What is 6 billion (1865) dollars? {$146 billion today}
300
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
The very first battle of the Civil War that arose over South Carolina's refusal to pay taxes to the federal government.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
300
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This reversed the Compromise of 1820 and allowed new states admitted into the Union to determine if they would be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
300
The total casualties of the Civil War.
What is 620,000-650,000?
400
Confederate commander and Robert E Lee's right hand man who died from friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
A major victory for the Confederate Army this battle was a turning point because the CSA lost one of their strongest commanders with the death of Stonewall Jackson.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville (Virginia)?
400
"We, the undersigned Prisoners of War, belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia, having been this day surrendered by General Robert E. Lee, CSA, Commanding said Army, to Lieut. Genl. U. S. Grant, Commanding Armies of United States, do hereby give our solemn parole of honor that we will not hereafter serve in the armies of the Confederate States, or in any military capacity whatever, against the United States of America."
What is the letter of surrender at Appomattox Court House?
400
The supreme court case that determined slaves were property and had no rights as citizens.
What is Scott vs Sanford // Dred Scott Case?
400
The capital city of the Confederate States of America.
What is Vicksburg, Virginia?
500
The Union major general who was placed at the head of the army, removed by Lincoln, then later placed back in command by Lincoln.
Who was General George McClellan?
500
The second bloodiest battle in the Civil War which took place in Georgia and was a close victory for the Confederates.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
500
"That when a person held to service escapes into another State or Territory of the United States, the person shall be returned to their rightful owner. (Section 6) And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly obstruct said fugitive from service or labor shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding six months." (Section 7) {paraphrase}
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
500
The uprising where a white abolitionist tried to storm a military arsenal, arm slaves, and start a violent slave revolt.
What was John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry?
500
The types of ships used by both sides that were heavily fortified and nearly impenetrable to cannon fire.
What are ironclads?