Spectators watched this "picnic battle," a defeat for the Union, some thirty miles south of Washington D.C.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run
100
Executive order that freed slaves in Confederate areas still in rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
100
Famous general-in-chief of the Confederate forces who was originally asked by Lincoln to command the Union forces
What is Robert E. Lee
100
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14th of this year
What is 1865
100
Theater where Lincoln was assassinated
What is Ford's Theater
200
General McClellan's failed attempt to take Richmond that attributed to the drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Peninsula Campaign
200
President Lincoln's dedication of a cemetery deemed "ludicrous" and "silly" at the time
What is the Gettysburg Address
200
This man earned the nickname "Stonewall" after his troops stood like a stone wall at the the First Battle of Bull Run
What is Thomas J. Jackson
200
The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in this year
What is 1865
200
The anticipated number of days the North thought the war would be over in
no more than 90 days
300
Union victory the day after their victory in Gettysburg that gave them control of the Mississippi, Confederate aid from Europe ended as a result
What is Vicksburg
300
Amendment that abolished slavery (except as a punishment for a crime)
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
300
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta
Who was William Sherman
300
The first battle of Bull Run, fought on the 21st of this month in 1861
What is July 21, 1861
300
About ________ men died in the Civil War, 2% of the nation's population at that time
What is 600,000
400
Battle where McClellan stopped Lee's advancement into Maryland; one of the most decisive battles of the Civil War
What is Antietam
400
The success of American democracy was used as an argument in the passing of the _______ Bill of 1867, establishing Britain as a true political democracy
What is Reform Bill of 1867
400
Ex-slave who was largely responsible for organizing two black regiments from Massachusetts
What is Fredrick Douglass
400
The Monitor fought the Merrimack on March 9th of this year
What is 1862
400
Blacks accounted for this percentage of enlisted Union soldiers
What is 10%
500
The West Indies port that was a major center of British-Confederate trade (blockade runners)
What is Nassau
500
This story, written by Edward Everett Hale, was immensely popular in the North and increased their devotion to the Union
What is The Man Without a Country
500
Congressman from Ohio and notorious Copperhead, he was convicted for treasonable utterances and imprisoned
What is Clement L. Vallandigham
500
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on New Year's Day of this year
What is 1863
500
Two of the three Union states Lincoln lost in the Election of 1865