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2. Legislation that admitted California as a free state and gave New Mexico and Utah the right to decide whether to be free or slave.

3. What was the Compromise of 1850?

4. Legislation that divided the Nebraska Territory into 2 sections and gave the territories the right to decide whether to be free or slave.

5. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

6. Name give to the Kansas Territory after the violence over the issue of slavery.

7. What was “Bleeding Kansas”?

8. The U.S. increased its size by 1/5 after a peace agreement with this country.

9. What was Mexico?

10. The South was afraid of this happening if new states or territories became free.

11. What was losing control of the Senate?

12. The first battle of the Civil War.

13. What was the Battle of Bull Run (aka Manassas)?

14. The battle in which the bloodiest day of the war occurred?

15. What was the Battle of Antietam?

16. The decisive battle of the war that resulted in the isolation of Texas and Arkansas from the rest of the Confederacy.

17. What was the Battle of Vicksburg?

18. The battle in which General Pickett’s famous charge took place.

19. What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

20. The location of the final battle of the American Civil War.

21. What was Richmond, VA?

22. President of the Confederacy.

23. Who was Jefferson Davis?

24. American officer who was offered command of both the Northern and Southern armies.

25. Who was Robert E. Lee?

26. Pro-Southern actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

27. John Wilkes Booth

28. The woman who was executed for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

29. Who was Mary Surrat?

30. The most well known Black abolitionist.

31. Who was Frederick Douglass?

32. President that Congress tried to impeach because they disagreed with his plans for Reconstruction and vice versa.

33. Who was Andrew Johnson?

34. Enraged Republicans in Congress passed this amendment that stated that any person born in the United States was automatically an American citizen.

35. What was the 14 th Amendment?

36. The government agency designed to help homeless and unemployed African Americans.

37. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?

38. This law divided the southern states into military districts with a Union Army general placed in command of each.

39. What was the Military Reconstruction Act?

40. Southern states passed these laws in response to federal legislation regarding African Americans after the Civil War.

41. What were the Jim Crow Laws?

42. Lincoln’s legislation that stated that all slaves in areas of rebellion would be forever free.

43. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

44. The British ship from which two Confederate ambassadors who were en route to London were forcibly removed and arrested.

45. What was the HMS Trent?

46. Lincoln’s long-term strategy for the Civil War.

47. What was the Anaconda Plan?

48. Two of the four slave states that remained loyal to the Union.

49. What were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?

50. The courthouse where General Lee officially surrendered to General Grant.

51. What was the Appomattox Courthouse?