Civil War

Question 1

This amendment stated that slavery was illegal

Answer 1

13th Amendment

Question 2

This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote

Answer 2

15th Amendment

Question 3

This amendment stated that everyone born in the US is a citizen and that states must treat everyone equally

Answer 3

14th Amendment

Question 4

Leader of the Confederate Army during the Civil War

Answer 4

Robert E Lee

Question 5

She began the Red Cross and was a nurse during the Civil War

Answer 5

Clara Barton

Question 6

An abolitionist and women’s rights activist during the Civil War

Answer 6

Sojourner Truth

Question 7

Commander of the Union Army during the Civil War

Answer 7

Ulysses S Grant

Question 8

An escaped slave who worked with abolitionists to end slavery

Answer 8

Frederick Douglas

Question 9

Conductor of the Underground Railroad

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman

Question 10

Most successful generals of the South

Answer 10

Stonewall Jackson

Question 11

16th President of the United States

Answer 11

Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

First and only president of the Confederate States

Answer 12

Jefferson Davis

Question 13

Person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

John Wilkes Booth

Question 14

Document that freed slaves in the Confederate States and eventually all the slaves when the war was over

Answer 14

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 15

Political Party that Stephen Douglas was part of

Answer 15

Democrat

Question 16

Political Party that Abraham Lincoln was part of

Answer 16

Republican

Question 17

Political Party that John Breckenridge was part of

Answer 17

Southern Democrat

Question 18

Political Party that John Bell was part of

Answer 18

Constitutional Union

Question 19

Speech given to dedicate the National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Answer 19

Gettysburg Address

Question 20

Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave who was kind and intelligent

Answer 20

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 21

The law that states that slaves who run away must be returned to their owners

Answer 21

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 22

Law that admitted California to the Union and allowed territories to decide on slavery

Answer 22

Compromise of 1850

Question 23

Most violent slave revolt that happened in 1831 when a slave from Virginia believed that god told him to end slavery

Answer 23

Nat Turner Rebellion

Question 24

John Brown and his gang tried to start a slave rebellion which increased anger between the North and the South

Answer 24

John Brown’s Raid

Question 25

When Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state

Answer 25

Missouri Compromise

Question 26

Decision that allowed territories to decide if they would e slave state or a free state

Answer 26

Kansas Nebraska Act

Question 27

The decision that African Americans were not considered citizens

Answer 27

Dred Scott Decision