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Civil War Game

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In what century did inventors make the steam engine? 1700s or 16th century
When did the U.S. Constitution make slaves 3/5 of a person? 1787
What date did Eli Whitney patent the cotton gin? March 14, 1794
Who were the four men who improved upon the cotton gin, and by what time had they all made their improvements? Hodgen Holmes, Robert Watkins, William Longstreet, and John Murray in 1796
When was Nat Turner born? 1800
When was Andrew Johnson born? December 29, 1808
When was the Missouri Compromise passed? March 6, 1820
When did George Wilson tell his master of Denmark Vesey's rebellion? May 30, 1822
When was Denmark Vesey captured? June 22, 1822
When were Denmark Vesey and his 36 co-conspirators hanged? July 2, 1822
When was Denmark Vesey's rebellion to take place? July 14, 1822
In what month and year did the City Council of Charleston authorize J. Hamilton's account of Vesey's rebellion to be published? August, 1822
In what year did Eli Whitney die? 1825
In what year did Andrew Johnson marry, and to whom? 1827, Eliza McCardle
When was Andrew Johnson's first child born? 1828
When did Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice begin performing dressed as a black man? What song was he singing? 1828, Jump Jim Crow
When was the first Tariff of Abominations passed? April 22, 1828
When did Railroad Fever hit America? 1830
What date did Nat Turner have a vision that led him to believe he had to start a slave revolt? What was it? August 13, 1831, a halo around the sun
When did Nat Turner start his revolt? What happened? Nat Turner started his revolt August 22, 1831. He led eight slaves originally in Southampton, Virginia, but their numbers swelled to sixty or seventy and they killed 58 people around Jerusalem, Virginia.
When did Nat Turner get captured? By whom? October 31, 1831, Benjamin Phipps.
When was Nat Turner convicted of insurrection? November 5, 1831
When was Nat Turner hanged? November 11, 1831
What month and year did South Carolina render the Tariff of Abominations null and void in their state? November 1832
When was the second Tariff of Abominations passed? 1832
When did Andrew Jackson issue a proclamation to South Carolina? What was it addressing? December 10, 1832. It was addressing the fact that South Carolina had rejected the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
What happened in January 1833? Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun worked on and passed the Compromise Tariff of 1833
By when had more than 1,000 miles of railroad track been laid? 1835
When was Stephen Douglas elected senator of Illinois? 1847
What happened in June, 1847? Dred Scott sued for his freedom in a local court
What began in 1848? Gold Rush
What year did the Missouri Supreme Court decide Dred Scott's case should be retried? 1848
What did Henry Clay attempt to pass on January 29, 1850? Compromise of 1850
When and where was Dred Scott's case retried for the first time? 1850, the St. Louis Circuit Court
What year did Harriet Beecher Stowe first publish Uncle Tom's Cabin in book form? What newspaper had she serialized it in before then? 1852, the National Era
When was Dred Scott's case retried a second time, and where? 1852, the Missouri Supreme Court
When did Dred Scott bring his case to the United States Circuit Court in Missouri? Did it uphold the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision? 1854, yes
When was the Kansas-Nebraska Act drafted? May, 1854
When did Supreme Court Justice Robert B. Taney read the Supreme Court's ruling on Dred Scott's case? What was the ruling? March 6, 1857, that Dred Scott was not a citizen because he was black, and so had no right to bring his case to the Supreme Court, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
When did the Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debates occur? 1858
When was John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry? October 16-18, 1859
When was Abraham Lincoln elected president of the United States? November, 1860
When did South Carolina secede? December 20, 1860
When was the Crittenden Compromise proposal defeated by the Senate? 1861
When did Missouri become the second state to secede from the Union? January 9, 1861
When did Florida secede? January 10, 1861
When did Alabama secede? January 11, 1861
When did Georgia secede? January 19, 1861
When did Louisiana secede? January 26, 1861
When was the Confederate States of America declared? February 4, 1861
When was Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederate States of America? February 9, 1861
When did Texas become the seventh state to join the Confederacy? February 23, 1861
What happened on April 12, 1861? The Civil War began with Fort Sumter
When did Fort Sumter surrender? April 14, 1861
When did Virginia become the eighth state to join the Confederacy? April 17, 1861
When did Arkansas secede? May 6, 1861
On what date did North Carolina become the tenth Confederate state? May 20, 1861
When did Tennessee become the eleventh and last state to secede? June 8, 1861
When did the Battle of Hampton Roads begin? March 8, 1862
When did the Battle of Hampton Roads end? March 9, 1862
When did the Battle of Shiloh occur? April 6-7, 1862
When did the Bread Riot in Richmond occur? April 2, 1863
What happened on June 20, 1862? Congress signed the Railroad Act
When did Lincoln announce the Emancipation Proclamation? When was it to take effect? September, 1862, January 1, 1863
When was the Battle of Antietam? September 17, 1862
Many people started joining the Copperheads (Peace Democrats) in protest in what year? 1863
When did the Emancipation Proclamation take effect? January 1, 1863
When did the Battle of Vicksburg begin? May 18, 1863
When did the Union army take Vicksburg? July 4, 1863
When did Lt. Hadley’s brother write to him about Quantrill’s attack? August 1, 1863
When did Quantrill’s men—who numbered about 300-400—assemble and start towards Lawrence, KS? August 20, 1863
What happened on August 21, 1863? The Lawrence Massacre took place, lasting four hours
When did the Union army occupy Chattanooga? September 9, 1863
The Battle of Chickamauga occurred when? September 19-20, 1863
When did Theodore Dehone Judah die? What was his significance? November 2, 1863, he thought of the idea for the Transcontinental Railroad
When did the Massacre at Fort Pillow occur? April 12, 1864
The Union is losing, so people join the Copperheads in droves. They leave when the tide turns and the Union begins to win again. When did this happen? Summer, 1864
What happened July 13 through July 18, 1863? The Civil War Draft Riots
When was Lincoln reelected? November 8, 1864
When did the March to the Sea begin? November 15, 1864
When did Sherman’s entire army finally pass over the Ogeechee River? November 30, 1864
When did the Battle of Statesburg take place? December 4, 1864
When did Sherman’s army drive the Confederates within their own lines, practically ensuring a Union victory? December 10, 1864
What happened December 21, 1864? Sherman took Savannah, Georgia
The Thirteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress when? January 31, 1865
What was John Wilkes Booth's original plan? When did he make it? What happened to foil it? March, 1865. His plan was to kidnap President Lincoln and exchange him for Confederate prisoners. At the last moment, however, Lincoln’s plans change, and Booth’s plans are wrecked
When did Lincoln give his second inaugural address? March 4, 1865
What happened on April 9, 1865? Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House and mentioned that blacks should be given the vote; John Wilkes Booth, an extreme racist, was in the crowd, and decided to kill Lincoln instead of kidnapping him. When was this? April 11, 1865
What happened on April 14, 1865? Lincoln was shot by Booth a little after 10 o’ clock; Lewis Paine, Booth’s accomplice, attempted to kill William Henry Seward, Secretary of State. He failed because a metal surgical collar blocked the dagger with which Paine slashed Seward's throat
When did President Abraham Lincoln die? April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m.
Booth is shot and captured while hiding in a barn near Bowling Green, Virginia. He dies later that same day. When was this? April 26, 1865
What happened on July 7, 1865? John Wilkes Booth’s four co-conspirators, Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt are hanged at the gallows of the Old Penitentiary
In late 1865, __% of the Central Pacific's workforce was _______. 80, Chinese
When was the Thirteenth Amendment adopted? December 6, 1865
What happened on December 18, 1865? Thirteenth Amendment declared, abolishing slavery
When was the first Civil Rights Act passed? April 9, 1866
When was the Fourteenth Amendment passed? June 13, 1866
When did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies begin to build the Transcontinental Railroad? Late 1866
What year did William Henry Seward purchase Alaska from Russia? 1867
When was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified? July 9, 1868
What happened on February 26, 1869? The Fifteenth Amendment was passed
When was the Transcontinental Railroad finished? What great feat was accomplished in order to do this? May 10, 1869. The Central Pacific had to build 10 miles of track in one day
When was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified? February 2, 1870
What happened on March 1, 1875? The second Civil Rights Act was passed
What happened in 1876? The presidential election from which stemmed the Compromise of 1877
What happened in 1877 as a result of the presidential election of 1876? Compromise of 1877, an informal, unwritten deal, is made, ending Reconstruction
When was the second Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court? 1883
What happened from 1916 to 1919? Kansas Exodus
In what order did the southern states secede? South Carolina, Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
When did Stephen Douglas pass the Compromise of 1850, and how? September 4, 1850, as five different bills
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