This person helped start the Nursing profession during the Civil War.
Who is Clara Barton?
100
This battle won Texas independence from Mexico. (It was near a river)
What was the battle at the San Jacinto River?
100
A line south of Missouri's southern border would permit slavery but north of it would not, EXCEPT for Missouri.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
100
This man was asked to lead the Northern Army but chose to lead the Southern Army because his home state (Virginia) went with the South?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
This caused the United States to grow the most. It doubled in size. Jefferson got a bargain for 15 million smackers!
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
200
This man sponsored the Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850. He was NOT an abolitionist!!!
Who is Henry Clay?
200
This is where the first shots were fired in the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This Supreme Court ruling pleased the South and stated that slaves were property, incapable of being citizens, and it also declared the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
200
General Winfield Scott's plan to beat the South looked like a huge snake surrounding the Southern states and was called what.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
Napoleon sold the United States the Louisiana Territory. He represented this country.
What is France?
300
This abolitionist started a newspaper, lectured against slavery but did NOT emigrate to Africa.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
300
This was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
300
This law pleased the North, but NOT the South because it stated that all territory won from Mexico would NOT permit slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This general led his army through the Heart of Dixie in his famous March to the Sea that brought him through Milledgeville where he poured molasses in a church organ now located on the GMC campus.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
This COUNTRY won its independence from Mexico but its annexation into the United States was delayed because the North and South had different opinions on whether it should be admitted as a slave or free state.
What is Texas?
400
This white man published the newspaper, The Liberator, that called for the complete abolition of slavery in the United States. He even burned a copy of the Constitution!
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
After this battle, the South gave up the idea of invading the North. IT was so important that President Lincoln traveled there and gave what many people consider to be the greatest speech ever given to dedicate a battlefield cemetary to honor those who died there.
What is Gettysburg? (The Gettysburg Address)
400
This part of the Compromise of 1850 pleased the South because it legally allowed runaway slaves to be returned, but many free blacks were caught up in this mess and were brought South to work in the fields.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
These men gave the South their ONLY advantage in the Civil War.
Who were the Southern Generals? (Military leadership)
400
This was a "transportation network" designed to expedite the exchange of goods throughout the United States. (The Erie Canal and the Mississippi River played a vital role)
What is the American System?
500
He thought that slavery was morally wrong but his main goal was to preserve or restore the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This battle gave General Grant and the Union control of the Mississippi River, cutting the South (confederacy) in half.
What is Vicksburg?
500
This action by President Lincoln was designed to ONLY free the slaves in the Confederate states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This general led the Northern Armies and accepted the surrender of General Lee and the South at the Appamatox Courthouse in Virginia. This ended the Civil War. He later became President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This war cost more American lives than ALL of the other wars, before and after combined. By the way, what was that number.
What was the Civil War and over 600,000 Americans were killed?