The white abolitionist who founded a newspaper that was very influential and helped to establish the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
100
This resulted in a bloody civil war within Kansas over the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
Plan supported by President Andrew Johnson which was less sever than others. where the only requirement was that southerners swear allegiance to the Union and denounce succession and finally, ratify the 13th Amendment.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
100
Won the election in 1860 before the Civil War began.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Gave very passionate anti-slavery speeches from South Carolina.
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
200
Occurred in 1832 in South Carolina over high tariffs where they threatened to secede from the Union.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
200
Attack on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry by a band of radical abolitionists in order to seize weapons and give them to slaves which failed.
What is John Brown's Raid?
200
Laws that limited the rights of freed blacks.
What is Black Codes?
200
Came to be President after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
Anti-slavery newspaper started in 1831.
What is "The Liberator"?
300
Proposed by Pennsylvania Congressman that advocated banning slavery from any land purchased from Mexico. Supported by the North and opposed by the South.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
The guarantee that a person cannot be imprisoned without being brought before a judge that was suspended during the Civil War.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
300
A secretive organization whose members often dressed in hooded white robes and who used violence, murder, and threats to intimidate blacks and those who favored giving African American equal rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
Known as the Civil War hero and 18th President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Delivered at the dedication of the cemetery where the bloodiest 3-day battle took place.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
Political compromise that admitted California to the Union as a free state. Also included the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
Lincoln expressed both the conviction that slavery was evil and his hope in reuniting the nation once the war was over.
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
400
This ended slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
Election of this man was settled in the House of Representatives.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
Union fort in Charleston, S.C. where the first shots were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
Fought in the 1840's which resulted in the U.S. acquiring Texas, California, and much of the southwest.
What is the Mexican War?
500
Held Vicksburg in siege, led as leader of western battles, assumed command of the entire Union army in 1864, and was present at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This was brought about when the president tried to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton which violated the Tenure in Office Act.
What is Andrew Johnson's Impeachment?
500
Only President of the Confederates States of America.