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Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Who am I?
Anything Goes
100
What state was the first to secede from the Union?
What was South Carolina
100
What battle in Pennsylvania is considered the "turning point of the war"?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
100
What compromise ended Reconstruction in the South?
What was the Compromise of 1877.
100
I was elected president in 1860 as a Republican.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
100
Year the Civil War ended.
What was 1865.
200
What Illinois senator proposed that the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be settled by popular sovereignity?
Who was Stephen Douglas
200
What general surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia?
Who was General Lee
200
What did southern states pass to force freedmen to work as cheap labor on plantations?
What were "slave codes".
200
I was the first & only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis
200
Battle that took the most lives in a single day.
What was the Battle of Antietam.
300
What court decision in 1857 caused a great controversy that split northern and southern Democrats.
What is the Dred Scott decision
300
What great victory by General Grant assured Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg
300
What constitutional amendment promised equal legal protection to former slaves?
What is the 14th Amendment
300
Who's act of terrorism at Pottawatomie was revenge for the sack of Lawrence?
Who was John Brown
300
Considered the most important of the border states.
What was Maryland
400
The admittance of what state was a very controversial part of the Compromise of 1850?
What was California
400
What general created a military strategy of defeating the south by blockading their ports?
Who was General Scott
400
What plan by Lincoln did Thaddeus Stevens believe was to lenient?
What was the Ten Percent Plan.
400
I shot Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Who was John Wilkes Booth
400
What innovation provided the most rapid communication between Civil War field officers and President Lincoln?
What was the telegraph
500
Who was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican party in 1856?
Who was John Fremont
500
Sherman’s victory in the Battle of Atlanta helped ensure what victory for Lincoln?
What is Lincoln's re-election
500
Which African American took the Senate seat formerly held by Confederate president Jefferson Davis?
Who was Hiram Revels
500
I became president after Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
Who was Andrew Johnson
500
What innovation had the greatest impact on military tactics during the Civil War?
What was the rifle