Which event is considered the official start of the American Civil War in April 1861?

Which state was the first to secede, or formally withdraw, from the United States just before the start of the Civil War?

Who was elected President of the United States in 1860, an event that led many Southern states to secede from the Union?

After the attack on Fort Sumter, what did President Abraham Lincoln do that caused four more Southern states to join the Confederacy?

Who was chosen as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America at the start of the Civil War?

Which group of states stayed in the Union during the Civil War but continued to allow slavery?

What was the main reason the Southern states gave for seceding from the Union to form the Confederacy?

What was the first major land battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia 1861, which showed both sides that the war would be much longer than expected?

At the beginning of the Civil War, what was the primary goal of President Abraham Lincoln and the North?

Which term describes the formal withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union, an action that triggered the beginning of the Civil War?

Which major event, caused by a disagreement over whether a new state should allow slavery, intensified the tension between the North and the South before the Civil War?

Which term describes the growing cultural and economic differences between the North and the South that contributed to the start of the Civil War?

Which 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped change how many people in the North felt about the cruelty of slavery?

The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case (1857) increased tensions between the North and South because it ruled that:

Which system of agriculture, common in the South, relied heavily on enslaved labor and caused the Southern economy to be vastly different from the industrial North?

The 1860 election of which U.S. President served as the immediate trigger for several Southern states to secede from the Union?

The belief that individual states should have the power to govern themselves and cancel federal laws they disagree with was known as:

Which compromise, reached in 1820, attempted to keep the balance of power equal between 'free' and 'slave' states by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state?

Which radical abolitionist led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859, hoping to start an armed slave revolt?

The Fugitive Slave Act, which was part of the Compromise of 1850, forced people in the North to do which of the following?

Which set of amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution after the Civil War to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people?

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution achieved which of the following goals?

The 15th Amendment was specifically written to protect which of the following rights?

The 14th Amendment is famous for the "Equal Protection Clause." What was its primary goal regarding citizenship?

Which amendment specifically guarantees that all citizens must be treated equally under the law and have their 'due process' rights protected by the states?

To remember the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments in order, many students use the phrase "Free, Citizens, Vote." Based on this, what did the 13th amendment do?

Which of the three Reconstruction Amendments was the first to give the federal government the power to protect the rights of individuals from being taken away by state governments?

Which of these best describes the main purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?

Which amendment was passed to ensure that the 'Black Codes' and other discriminatory state laws could not take away the basic rights of U.S. citizens?

Which amendment allows a person to be forced to work only as a punishment for a crime for which they have been duly convicted?