Who was a fiery New Englander who demanded the immediate and unconditional freeing of all slaves and influenced abolitionists of that time?

Who led a slave revolt in 1831 that was one of the largest slave uprisings in the history of the South?

Who helped about seventy slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad?

Which senator proposed the principle of popular sovereignty?

Who was the Whig candidate for president in the 1848 election?

What was the last compromise that the old generation of Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster proposed?

What was Daniel Webster's last great speech called?

During whose presidency did America botch an attempt to buy Cuba because of the Ostend Manifesto?

Which senator from Illinois introduced a bill to organize the vast land as the Nebraska Territory?

What bill divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska?

What was the violence that occurred between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers in Kansas called?

What party consisting of a coalition of Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Democrats that ran on a platform of opposing the extension of slavery was created in 1854?

What Supreme Court case declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?

Who challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of debates for the Illinois senator election?

Who led a raid on the town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, seized a federal arsenal, and planned to arm the slaves and invade the South?

Who was one of the most articulate preachers of his day who poured out fiery messages against slavery?

Which Fireside poet bombarded the reading public with literature that aroused sympathy for the slaves?

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Who wrote The Impending Crisis of the South?

Who was the Republican candidate for president in the 1860 election?

What minor party was organized in 1860 and hoped to avoid a national crisis by focusing on national unity?

What state was the first to secede from the Union?

Who was the first president of the Confederacy?

What attempted compromise proposed a constitutional amendment recognizing slavery as existing in all territories south of the 36º 30' line?

What fort needed supplies but was attacked by the Confederacy before it could be resupplied?

Who led the attack on Fort Sumter?

On what day did the Civil War officially begin?

Which of the following is NOT a border state?

What city became the capital of the Confederacy?

What nickname was given to Thomas J. Jackson at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Who won the First Battle of Bull Run?

What general was known for his ability to organize, discipline, and train troops?

What US Navy admiral captured Mobile Bay, Alabama and took possession of Confederate vessels there?

What warship did the Confederacy raise and fit with an iron hull and rename the CSS Virginia?

Who was the real hero of the western front of the Civil War?

What was Grant known as because of his famous reply: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted."?

At what battle did the Union manage to complete the capture of western Tennessee?

The capture of what strategic river bend on the Mississippi River cut off the northern end of the Mississippi River?

Admiral Farragut bypassed Confederate defenses to sail up the Mississippi River to attack what city?

The fall of which city signaled the complete capture of the Mississippi River by the Union?

In what campaign was McClellan defeated by Generals Lee and Jackson and pushed back down the peninsula to the Potomac River?

Who won the Second Battle of Bull Run?

What battle was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?

What Union General was best known for his leadership and by the way he wore his beard on the side of his face?

What did Lincoln issue that freed slaves in rebellious states starting from January 1, 1863?

At what battle did Stonewall Jackson die?

What battle was the South's costliest battle of the Civil War?

What was the most decisive battle in the Civil War?

Who was the Union commander at the Battle of Gettysburg?

Who was the orator that spoke for two hours before Abraham Lincoln at the memorial at Gettysburg?

What three-minute speech did Abraham Lincoln give at Gettysburg to honor the fallen?

Which Union general forced Braxton Bragg and his troops out of Chattanooga without a fight?

Who became the supreme commander of the armies of the United States during the Civil War?

Who did Grant put in charge of Union forces in the West? He ordered his men to march to Savanna, destroying everything in his path.

On what date did the Confederacy surrender to the Union?

Where did the Confederacy surrender to the Union?

The sale of what allowed the federal government to raise much of its needed income?

What act encouraged banks to buy war bonds and give the country a stable national banking system?

What are paper notes that are backed by nothing except the government's promise to redeem them at a future date?

What system did both sides use to enlist men for military service?

Who was the French ruler who saw the independence of the South as to his advantage?

What British steamer was stopped by a Union warship and had two Confederate commissioners to Europe captured?

What amendment abolished slavery permanently from the United States and all areas under her jurisdiction?

What name did the Republican Party temporarily take for the election of 1864?

Who was Abraham Lincoln's running mate for the election of 1860?

Who was Abraham Lincoln's running mate for the election of 1864?

Which pro-Confederate actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Who began his Sunday School movement in Chicago in the midst of the revival?

What society distributed over 900,000 copies of the Bible to troops in the Civil War in 1864?

Who was one of the most famous chaplains of the Civil War who wrote several books about how Christianity influenced the Confederate soldiers during the war?

Which Union General founded the Howard Theological Seminary for African-Americans in 1867?

What Union general founded Hampton University and sought to provide a good education to recently freed slaves?

What Southern general was an ordained minister and served in his church after the war?

What is the period after the Civil War where the nation was rebuilding?

What is the term for the former slaves?

What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called?

What bill, if adopted, would have had Congress, not the president, control Reconstruction?

How does a president kill a bill by not acting upon it before Congress adjourns?

What are the group of Republicans who felt that Lincoln's Reconstruction plan was too lenient and believed that Congress should handle Reconstruction?

Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?

Under the influence of which two men did Congress maintain that the Confederate states did secede from the Union and that bringing them back is the jurisdiction of Congress?

What were laws that the new state governments in the South adopted that limited the civil rights of freedmen?

What organization was established by an act of Congress in 1865 to provide food and clothing for freed slaves?

What amendment gave citizenship to the freedmen and became the first official definition of American citizenship?

What act divided the former Confederacy (except Tennessee) into five military districts and gave federal military officers broad powers in each district?

What act prevented the president from dismissing any civil officers that had been appointed with the consent of the Senate unless he first obtained the Senate's approval for the dismissal?

Who did President Johnson dismiss because he had been cooperating with the Radicals against the president's wishes?

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Who was elected as president in the 1868 election?

Who was the Democratic presidential candidate for the election of 1876?

Who was the Republican presidential candidate for the election of 1876?

What compromise did the Democrats make to agree that Hayes will be president provided that (1) Hayes appoint at least one Southerner to his Cabinet, (2) federal money be spent to develop the Southern economy, and (3) all federal troops be removed from the South?

Who are the Northern politicians who went south after the war, carrying their belongings in a carpetbag, to take advantage of political opportunity?

Who were white Southerners who cooperated with carpetbaggers?

What act passed in 1872 restored political rights to most of those who had cooperated with the Confederacy?

What term is used to describe the fact that nearly all Southerners who vote voted for the Democratic Party?

What is a secret society that some Southern whites organized that used terror tactics to suppress the rights of freedmen?

Who was the founder of Tuskegee Institute that advocated for blacks helping themselves to be better to fit into society?

Through what society did the Methodist Episcopal church set up schools to help educate former slaves?

Who was the best-known teacher at Tuskegee Institute whose many inventions helped to revolutionize Southern agriculture?

What is the term for a plantation owner dividing his land into small plots, each worked by a farmer, and sharing the profits?

George B. McClellan

Robert E. Lee

Stonewall Jackson

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Virginia

South Carolina

Georgia

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Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln

Jefferson Davis

David Farragut

A.E. Burnside

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John Pope

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George G. Meade

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