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This is the name that the Southern states took on

during the war.

A 100

What is the Confederacy?

A 100

Farmers who grew crops on land owned by someone else and who gave some of their crops to the landowner in

return for the use of land and supplies.

A 200

Who are sharecroppers?

A 200

During the war, President Lincoln suspended this which

meant that people could be arrested without being notified of

the reason.

A 300

What is habeas corpus?

A 300

If this happens to a president, he has been charged and

convicted of “high crimes or misdemeanors”.

A 400

What is impeachment?

A 400

This allows a president to let a bill expire without signing

it and without formally making a stand against it.

A 500

What is a pocket veto?

A 500

This person was president during the Civil War.

B 100

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

B 100

This person assassinated the president just after the Civil

War ended.

B 200

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

B 200

This president was impeached after the Civil War, but was

not removed from office.

B 300

Who was Andrew Johnson?

B 300

This man led the Union army during the Civil War.

B 400

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

B 400

This man led the Confederate army during the Civil War.

B 500

Who was Robert E. Lee?

B 500

One of the causes of the Civil War, which means that states

were divided against each other.

C 100

What is sectionalism?

C 100

This was an attempt to keep the balance of slave and free

states, which eventually led to the Civil War.

C 200

What is the Compromise of 1850?

C 200

One of the most important differences between the

Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War (other

than slavery).

C 300

What is the level of industrialization?

C 300

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C 400

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This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is considered

by some to be one of the major causes of the Civil

War.

C 400

What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

C 400

This was the name of the territorial Civil War in Kansas

that was caused by a disagreement over whether

Kansas and Nebraska should be free or slave states.

C 500

What is Bleeding Kansas?

C 500

The 13th Amendment did this.

D 100

What is formally abolished slavery?

D 100

The 14th Amendment did this.

D 200

What is declared all former slaves and people born in the

United States citizens?

D 200

The 15th Amendment did this.

D 300

What is gave voting rights to former male slaves?

D 300

This was written during the Civil War with the intent of

freeing slaves in the Confederate States.

D 400

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

D 400

This is a set of laws that prevented former slaves from

taking advantages of all of their rights

D 500

What are Jim Crow Laws?

D 500

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was

considered by many to be too lenient because he didn’t

want to do this to the South.

E 100

What is punish?

E 100

President Johnson was impeached because Congress

claimed he didn’t have the power to do this.

E 200

What is firing the Secretary of War?

E 200

Some groups such as this in the South responded violently

to Reconstruction.

E 300

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

E 300

The Freedmen’s Bureau set up more than 4,000 of these

after the war.

E 400

What are schools?

E 400

One of the reasons that Reconstruction came to an

end.

E 500

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E 500

This man was caned in Congress because he called a Southern Senator a “harlot for

slavery”.

F 100

Who was Charles Sumner?

F 100

Shots fired at this location in South Carolina are the first official shots of the Civil

War.

F 200

What is Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC)?

F 200

One of the five border states.

F 300

What is Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri?

F 300

The South’s strategy in the war was to fight a “war of attrition”, meaning this.

F 400

What is to fight until the other side is too tired to go

on?

F 400

The North’s strategy in the war was to do this.

F 500

What is to starve the South into giving up by cutting off

their resources?

F 500

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This was the only city that Sherman didn’t burn on his

“March to the Sea”.

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What was Savannah?

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