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100
This President's entire presidency was during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Abraham Lincoln was elected in this year which then led to the secession of eleven state from the Union.
When was 1860?
100
This term describes what the secessionist states are referred to during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
100
This regiment was the first all black regiment in the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
100
This battle was the first major battle after Fort Sumter was taken by the south and was a great surprise to the spectators who came to watch the excitement.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
He ended the Civil War as General of the Armies for the North.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This two day battle in April of 1862 was the bloodiest seen in the war up to that point, and proved the war would be a long and hard fought one.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
200
This is the term given to the Northern States during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
200
He was the officer of the regiment.
Who was Colonel Shaw?
200
The end of this battle/siege gave the north control of the Mississippi River and split the south in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
He was the Confederate General of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This battle in September of 1862 is still the single bloodiest day in U.S. military history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This pronouncement made by Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in areas of rebellion, effectively shifting the civil war from just preserving the union to ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This was the fort the regiment asked the privilege of attacking first.
What is Fort Wagner?
300
This Union victory led to the destruction of the south's main industrial center.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
400
He was the first President in United States History to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
This three day battle in July of 1863 fought in Pennsylvania was the largest of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This is the Northern Plan to defeat the south by controlling the Mississippi and "choking" the South with a blockade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
The casualties from the attack on the fort was this number.
What is 1/2 the regiment?
400
50 counties in one particular secessionist state chose to remain loyal to the Union and were thus made into this separate state.
What is West Virginia?
500
He was a Radical Republican congressman from Pennsylvania.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
500
It was in this month that the majority of the South surrendered leading to an end of the Civil War.
What is April, 1865?
500
This Radical Republican bill, which was vetoed by Lincoln, would have had 50% of the Southern Population swear a loyalty oath in order to rejoin the Union.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill.
500
Because of the bravery of the regiment, President Lincoln called for how many troops of color to join the Union Army?
What is 180,000?
500
This is the site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee and his army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union.
What is Appomattox Court House?