Civil War
This Union commander seized New Orleans, the Confederacy's largest city and busiest port.
Who was Admiral David Farragut?
This charity, which focuses on emergency assistance and public health education, was founded by Clara Barton in 1881. Though the building in Fairfield was built about 120 years later.
What is the Red Cross?
This battle was the first real battle of the Civil War, taking place just miles away from Washington DC.
What was the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
This American president was brutally assassinated while watching a play at Fords Theater after the conclusion of the Civil War.
Who was Lincoln?
This city in Virginia was the Confederate captial.
What was Richmond?
This well known actor of the day shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater, while the president and his wife were enjoying a production of Our American Cousin.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This was a draft which forced certain members of the population to serve in the army.
What is conscription?
After the Battle of Chancellorsville, this Confederate general was mistaken for a Union soldier and killed by his own men.
Who was General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This Confederate president ordered the first shots of the Civil War, by sending troops to take Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln, only lasted 2 minutes long, but has been remembered long after the Civil War.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
The Monitor and the Merrimack fought each other to a draw as the first two types of these navy ships.
What are ironclads? (Ships made of iron, not wood)
Lincoln suspended freedom of speech and this right, which requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
Months after this battle ended, President Lincoln gave a short speech commemorating the battlefield, and calling for soldiers to finish the job.
What was Gettysburg?
This Union general was criticized by President Lincoln for not being aggressive enough, and ultimately was removed from leadership of the Army of the Potomic.
Who was General George McClellan?
Congress helped pay for the war by collecting this "fee" that takes a specified percentage of an individuals salary.
What is an income tax?
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, met at this location to discuss the terms of the surrender of the Confederacy.
What was Appomattox Court House?
A gruesome massacre took place at this fort, where Confederates killed over 200 African American white prisoners.
What is Fort Pillow?
When Grant won this battle for the Union, he successfully cut the Confederate army in two, and gained control of the Mississippi River.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
This Confederate general led his troops as far north as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but ultimately surrendered to the Union at Appomattox Courthouse, ending the war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
General Grant appointed this general as the head of the military division in Mississippi, and he ravaged the South as he moved through.
Who was William "Tecumseh" Sherman?
This was the reptilian name given to the Union's strategy to squeeze the Confederates out of supplies and force them to surrender.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This was the nickname given to Northern Democrats who wanted to make peace with the South.
Who were the Copperheads?
This battle was the bloodiest single day battle in American history with 26,000 casualties, as many as the War of 1812 and the Mexican American war combined.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This colonel led the 54th Massachusetts regiment, the nations first all black regiment, into Battle at Fort Wagner. He did not survive the battle.
Who was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw?
This Confederate prison in Georgia saw the death of almost 1/3rd of its 33,000 prisoners because of terrible conditions. Its commander Henry Wirz was later executed by the Union as a war criminal.
What was Andersonville?