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Grab Bag
100
When this leader died in 1865, he was buried in his adopted home state of Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln
100
A word that means "someone who watches over," this became the name of the Union's ironclad warship.
The U.S.S. Monitor
100
True or false: Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg in 1863 to speak at the opening of Arlington National Cemetery.
False
(He went there to deliver the Gettysburg Address at a new cemetery for Union soldiers who had died in the recent battle there.)
100
This battle, the bloodiest of the war, was fought in a small college and farming town in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863.
The Battle of Gettysburg
100
Fill in the blank: "Look there, men. There stands Jackson like a ______________. Do not waver! Forward against the Yankees!"
"stone wall"
150
After the war, this Confederate leader went on to become president of a small Virginia college until his death in 1870.
General Robert E. Lee
150
This is the Confederacy's name for the Merrimack, the old Union ship they turned into their own ironclad warship.
The C.S.S. Virginia
150
After seceding from the Union, the Confederacy established their own capital in this Virginia city.
Richmond
150
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in April of 1861. The only casualty was a horse.
Fort Sumter
150
Most of the destruction (complete ruin) was in the ______ part of the United States, since most of the Civil War's battles were fought here. 
Southern
200
This man led the Union Army for the second half of the Civil War.
General Ulysses S. Grant
200
Scientist Thaddeus Lowe convinced President Lincoln that this vehicle could be used to better follow troop movements. (The idea was abandoned before the end of the war.)
Balloons
200
Fort Sumter is located in which state?
South Carolina
200
After McLellan won this battle for the Union, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all American slaves effective New Year's Day, 1863.
The Battle of Antietam
200
Once signed by President Lincoln, what does the Emancipation Proclamation actually do?
Frees all American slaves
250
This former Union general ran against Lincoln for the Presidency in 1864.
General George McLellan
250
To help bring more soldiers into the Union army and crush the Confederacy through sheer numbers, President Lincoln and Congress created the first of these ever used in an American war. The last time it's been used was during the Vietnam War nearly sixty years ago.
A military draft (conscription, enrollment)
250
The Siege of Vicksburg took place in which Southern state?
Mississippi
250
Sometimes called the Battle of Hampton Roads, this is the more common name of the first naval battle between armored ships, which was fought in 1862.
The Battle of the Ironclads
250
This Constitutional Amendment enshrined the Emancipation Proclamation into law, stating that in the USA, slavery is now officially illegal. (Number...)
The 13th Amendment
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300
This Confederate became infamous for leading a doomed assault on the Union line at the Battle of Gettysburg. He never forgave General Lee for it.
General George Pickett
300
Why did Lincoln and Grant want to capture the Confederate city Vicksburg?
Control the Mississippi River, preventing the movement of Confederate troops and supplies
300
Formerly the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, this place in Virginia became a burying ground for Union troops in 1864 and remains a sacred place to Americans to this day.
Arlington National Cemetery
300
This is the Southerners' name for the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War.
The Battle of Mannassas
300
This man (1), a Southern supporter, could not accept that the Confederacy had lost the war and shot this man (2) at this location (3) in Washington, D.C., days after Lee's surrender in 1865.
1: John Wilkes Booth
2: Abraham Lincoln
3: Ford's Theater
301
This Union officer, a former teacher who had only learned about waging war by reading books, famously led a bayonet charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
301
Together with the doomed Pickett's Charge, the defense of this hill spelled victory for the Union at Gettysburg.
Little Round Top
301
A small village outside of Richmond, this became the site of Lee's surrender to Grant in April of 1865.
Appomattox Court House
301
Fought in Virginia in the spring of 1863, Many historians consider this "Lee's perfect battle."
The Battle of Chancellorsville
301
This general did poorly in many of classes at military school, with the exception of horsemanship. Many of his troops wrote in their diaries about how kind he was to horses and how wonderfully he rode.
General Ulysses S. Grant
