Fast Facts
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
100
They were born on a farm in Kentucky
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
Abraham Lincoln was the ________ president.
What is the 16th
100
Richmond, Virginia
What is the capital of the Confederate States of America
100
Commanded the Union army from _____ to _____
What is 1864-1865
100
Mary Custis - great-granddaughter of Martha Washington
What is Lee's wife
200
U.S. Military Academy at West Point
What is the school Grant and Lee graduated from
200
First job
What is a lawyer
200
U.S. Congressman, Senator, and Secretary of War
What positions held by Davis prior to becoming President of the Confederate States of America
200
Vicksburg
What is a city that Grant and his troops captured on the Mississippi River
200
Served as adviser to
Who is Jefferson Davis
300
"Will you be the field commander of all the Union armies?"
What is what Abraham Lincoln asked Robert E. Lee - Lee declined and chose to fight for the Confederacy instead
300
1860
What is the year he was elected president
300
Strongly held belief
What are states rights
300
Julia Dent
What is Grant's wife
300
Second Battle of Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorville
What is important victories led by Lee
400
"There was not a man in the Confederacy whose influence with the whole people was as great as his."
What is Grant's description of Lee
400
Proclamation in which Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for all slaves living in the Confederacy even though he had no control of the South
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
400
Strategy of defending all southern territory equally
What is an expensive strategy that allowed the Union forces to hit hard in vulnerable areas
400
Battle of Shiloh
What is a battle in which the Union troops barely held off the Confederate army
400
12,000 men lost
What is the amount of men lost at Gettysburg
500
"A house divided against itself cannot endure permanently half slave and half free...It will become all one thing, or all the other."
What is a speech Congressman Abraham Lincoln gave Americans as a warning about the rift in America
500
John Wilkes Booth
What is angered Southerner who assassinated Lincoln
500
Taken prisoner, indicted, held in prison, and eventually released and never tried
What is what happened to Davis at the end of the war
500
Two terms
What is the amount of times Grant was President of the United States
500
Appomattox Court House
What is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant
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