This proclamation, issued officially January 1, 1863, freed the slaves in all rebellious states.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg have this in common.
What is both victories came within one day of each other?
100
The main speaker at the commemoration of the Gettysburg Address.
Who was Edward Everett?
100
The bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War
What is The Battle of Antietam?
200
The Confederates were feeling confident after this victory just weeks before.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
200
Lincoln signed this act into law in March 1863.
What is the draft?
200
The victory at Vicksburg did this to the Confederacy
What is split the Confederacy?
200
The length of President Lincoln's speech
What is 2-3 minutes
200
George McClellan, William Sherman, Phil Sheridan
What are famous warriors for the north?
300
What England might do if Lee whips Meade in the next pivotal battle.
What is recognize the Confederacy?
300
General Lee won a Pyrrhic victory- a victory at a very high cost- at Chancellorsville when he watched this valuable general die from wounds inflicted by his own men.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
Lincoln's proclamation created this special day in 1863
What is Thanksgiving?
300
The invitation inviting Lincoln to speak at Gettysburg requested him to do this.
What is make a "few appropriate remarks?"
300
Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Dorthea Dix worked here during the Civil War
What is the hospitals?
400
By late June 1863 this was a major problem for the Confederate army so far from home.
What are supplies?
400
He "led" a frontal assault on the Union center on the third crucial day at Gettysburg, only to be thwarted.
Who was General George Pickett?
400
This battle was a major Rebel victory after losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
What is Chickamauga?
400
87
What is how many years make up "four score and seven" from the address?
400
Belle Boyd and Rose O'Neal Greenhow
What are Civil War spies?
500
Draft riots occurred in this Northern city in July 1863.
What is New York City?
500
The Union victory was achieved without specific orders from Grant when brave Federal troops scaled and captured Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
What is the Battle of Chattanooga?
500
Lincoln hoped the Union would have this to show that the men who died at Gettysburg four and a half months earlier.
What is a "new birth of freedom"?
500
President Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1, 1863. It declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."