Missouri enters as a slave state, Maine as a free state. No slavery allowed north of 36' 30'' North Latitude.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
100
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware
What are the four slave states that stayed with the North?
100
She was a nurse who started the American Red Cross after the Civil War.
Who was Clara Barton?
100
This Virginian became commander of Confederate forces in 1862 and led them all the way to Appomattox in 1865.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
Problems the south faced as the war went on
What were younger and older soldiers who were underfed and under-equipped?
200
California entered the Union as a free state; no slave trading in D.C.
Fugitive Slave Act enforced; Southwest territories slavery decided by popular sovereignty
What is The Compromise of 1850?
200
First MAJOR battle of the Civil War?
What is Bull Run I or Manassas?
200
He was a former slave who escaped and rose to be a leading abolitionist, speaker, writer and government official.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
He was a South Carolina slave who stole his master's boat and gave it to the Northern navy. Later, he became a U.S. Congressman.
Who was Robert Smalls?
200
The most common cause of death during the American Civil War.
What was disease?
300
Lincoln elected president- states start to secede from Union
What is the Election of 1860?
300
The document that made the freeing of slaves another focus of the war
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
300
He led the Union through the Civil War as president
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
They called him "Stonewall" for his courage at Bull Run.
Who was Thomas Jonathan Jackson?
300
What women did during the war.
What was running businesses and farms, nursing, spying and occasionally, fighting.
400
The first Southern state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400
The Southern city on the Mississippi River whose fall cut off the use of the river by the Confederates (July 4, 1863)
What is Vicksburg, Mississippi?
400
He was president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
blockade of southern ports, control of Mississippi River, capture Richmond
What was the overall plan the North had to win the war?
400
The value of Confederate money after the Civil War.
What is worthless?
500
Where violence first broke out at the start of the Civil War.
Where is Ft. Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina?
500
Considered one of the "turning points" of the war, a Union army defeated a Confederate force around a small town in Pennsylvania. A Union colonel yelled, "BAYONETS!"
What is Gettysburg?
500
He was the Union general whose tenacity (toughness) pushed the Confederacy to surrender.
Who was U.S. Grant?
500
The name of the speech given by Abe Lincoln on November 19, 1863 that is considered one of the most famous speeches in American history.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
500
What over 200,000 African-Americans did after January 1, 1863.