Was one of the first books written about the moral evils of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
After the Confederates bombarded and captured this place, the Civil War officially began and four more states seceded to join the Confederacy.
What is Ft. Sumter?
100
This man was Lee's right hand man and was killed by friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
100
Possibly the greatest general of the war and of all time in American history. He denied Lincoln's offer to be over the Union Army and remained loyal to his state of Virginia and fought for the Confederates leading the Army of Virginia for the entire war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
The battle where Lee surrendered to Grant to basically end the war.
What is the Battle at Appomattox Courthouse?
200
The arsenal attacked and captured by John Brown while trying to lead a slave revolt.
What is Harper's Ferry?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This amendment officially abolished slavery.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
200
This is the tactic where you involve the citizens in the war by destroying everything necessary for them to survive as you conquer their land. It is meant to demoralize and end the war more quickly.
What is total war?
200
Originally the general of the Army of the West but later appoint General of the entire Union Army and took command of the Army of the Potomac.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The turning point battle in the Eastern Theater which kept the Confederates and Lee from taking Washington D.C. and was their last attempt to invade the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Created CA as a free state, abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C., made the New Mexico and Utah Territory able to decide on slavery by popular sovereignty, and established the Fugitive Slave Act.
The Compromise of 1850
300
This event ultimately caused most of the Southern States to secede and create the Confederate States of America.
What is the 1960 election or the election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
The idea that the people of a state would choose to either be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!
Was Lincoln's Vice President and took over after his assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
This was the bloodiest single day battle in the history of America.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
This document nullified the Missouri Compromise by extending the idea of popular sovereignty over the issue of slavery to areas where slavery had previously been abolished.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln gave this speech which freed all the slaves in rebel occupied territory and allowed for African Americans to begin fighting on the side of the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This event was seen as a mini civil war with in a state as abolitionists and pro-slavery supporters fought for control of the state's government to determine whether it would be free or slave.
What is bleeding Kansas?
400
Was responsible for using total war against the citizens of Tennessee, Georgia, South and North Carolina on his march to the sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
400
The turning point battle in the Western Theater which gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
500
Was proposed to Congress to keep slavery from spreading to the newly acquired territories from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
500
This caused more tension between the North and the South because it ignited the issue of whether or not territories should eventually be admitted as slave or free states.
What is westward expansion.
500
This man was appointed as the general over the Army of the Potomac after the First Battle of Bull Run, but failed to act quick enough and was eventually replaced.