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What was Grant’s nickname after accepting General Buckner’s surrender?
“UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER"
100
What was the bloodiest day in US history?
ANTIETAM [23,000 CASUALTIES]
100
How was Lincoln’s million man army different from his original army of 90-day volunteers?
3-YEAR ENLISTMENTS
100
What advantage did McClellan have at Antietam?
A COPY OF LEE’S PLANS
100
Who stood up to the Union attack like a stone wall?
JACKSON
200
What happened to Lee’s two invasions of the North?
DEFEATED
200
What three Confederate states would be marginalized if the Union controlled the Mississippi River?
TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA
200
What did New Orleans’s capture mean to the South?
COULD NO LONGER USE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOR EXPORTS
200
Where are Forts Henry and Donelson?
TENNESSEE AND CUMBERLAND RIVERS ON KY/TN BORDER
200
Who captured New Orleans?
DAVID FARRAGUT
300
Who won the first Battle of Bull Run?
CSA [BUT THEY LOST THEIR BEST CHANCE TO WIN THE WAR BY NOT MARCHING IMMEDIATELY ON WASHINGTON]
300
What was Lincoln’s original war aim?
PRESERVE THE UNION
300
Who led the first Union attack of the Civil War?
MCDOWELL
300
What Army did Pope and Burnside lead?
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
300
Who captured Henry and Donelson?
GRANT [AND FOOTE]
400
Who led the Confederate army in the East?
ROBERT E. LEE
400
Who was called in to take over the Army of the Potomac?
MCCLELLAN
400
Why was Vicksburg, Mississippi’s, capture so important to the Union?
LAST MAJOR CSA STRONGHOLD ON MISSISSIPPI RIVER
400
What ship stopped the Merrimack from bombarding Washington, DC?
USS MONITOR
400
Why did Lincoln hesitate to free slaves?
DIDN’T WANT TO DRIVE THE BORDER STATES INTO THE CONFEDERACY
500
Why did Grant want to attack Corinth, Mississippi?
RAIL CENTER
500
Which side did France and Britain want to win the Civil War?
SOUTH
500
How many soldiers on both sides were killed or wounded at Shiloh?
23,000
500
Why didn’t France and Britain support the South during the war?
THEIR PEOPLE WERE ANTI-SLAVERY
500
Who won the Battle of Shiloh?
CSA 1ST DAY, BUT GRANT THE 2ND DAY
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