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100

Who was recognized as being the most skilled Confederate general from Virginia?

Robert E. Lee

100

True or False: The Union Soldiers created a battle cry that sounded like, "Woh-who-ey! Who-ey!"

False: Confederates

100

The capital of the Confederacy was...

Richmond

100

Who was the 16th President of the US; determined to preserve the Union?

Abraham Lincoln

100

Who was the leader of all Union troops by the end of the war?

Ulysses S. Grant

200

What Union general was famous for his "march to the sea" across Georgia?

William T. Sherman

200

What side had the more skilled generals?

Confederates

200

Who was a nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross after the War?

Clara Barton

200

The Union's plan for blockading all ports in the South was called...

The Anaconda Plan

200

What Union General was twice fired by President Lincoln and defeated by Lincoln in the 1864 election for President?

George B. McClellan

300

By continuing to fight until the South ran out of men, supplies, and will, what type of war was waged by Grant?

War of Attrition

300

What Confederate general died from infection after he was accidently shot by his own men?

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

300

Suspended by President Lincoln, this civil right protects unlawful imprisonment.

Habeas Corpus

300

The first fighting of the Civil War was the fight for (location)...

Fort Sumter

300

The draft during the Civil War was otherwise known as what?

Conscription

400

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female physician in the United States, helped run the...

U.S. Sanitary Commission

400

True or False: Both sides had adequate food for the entire war.

False

400

At the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee's surrender took place, where?

Appomattox Courthouse

400

What Union general had been friends with Robert E. Lee during the Mexican War?

Winfield Scott

400

True or False: When the government needed supplies, the people who had to sell them at below market prices were happy to do so.

True
500

What nation hoped that the Union would defeat the Confederates in order to keep Britain and France in check?

Russia

500

The majority of soldiers who died during the war, perished from these three things...

Disease, infection, Malnutrition

500

What would have extended the Missouri compromise line through remaining territory to determine how states would be admitted into the US?

Crittendon Compromise
500

What nations did the South hope would come to their aid?

Britain and France

500

At the beginning of the war, what major figurehead in the government was willing to let slavery remain legal in states that already had it?

President Abraham Lincoln

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