Name two forms of communication that peaked during this time.
What is newspapers, photography, telegraph, and letter writing.
100
Name the first official battle of the war.
What is Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas?
100
Name Lincoln's opposing candidate in the Election of 1864.
Who is Union General George B. McClellan?
100
Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
A slave-holding state that did not secede from the Union.
What is a border state?
200
Name two roles that women took up during the war.
Nurse, fundraising, labor at home, disguised as men to enlist as a soldier
200
Name the bloodiest battle in American history.
What is Battle of Antietam?
200
What was General Grant's plan to end the war?
Fight on five fronts - total war.
200
What was John Wilkes Booth's original plan?
To kidnap President Lincoln and hand him over to the South to end the war.
300
The Capital of the Confederate States
What is Richmond, VA?
300
What was the Union soldiers' main reason for fighting?
To preserve the Union
300
The Union victory at the battle of Vicksburg gained them access to what?
What is the Mississippi River and/or Port Hudson?
300
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender?
What is Appomattox?
300
Which Reconstruction Plan went into effect?
What is Johnson's Plan?
400
This compromise was made prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in order to ease tensions over the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Name one location battles typically took place and WHY.
Near railroads, waterways, capital cities, or on specific landscape.
400
What did the Emancipation Proclamation SPECIFICALLY state?
That slaves in states still in rebellion (states that seceded) were freed.
400
What did the Democratic Candidate in 1864 want to do about the war?
He wanted to end the war, let the Southern states secede, and allow slavery to continue.
400
Describe TWO things that the 14th Amendment states.
Defines citizenship, individuals can no longer be represent by a fraction, individuals who took part in the rebellion cannot run for office, the Union is not responsible for the South's debt.
500
Name TWO major causes of the civil war.
Possible answers: Slavery; economic and social differences between the North and the South; election of Lincoln; state versus federal rights
500
What was the average age range of soldiers?
Between 18 and 29.
500
What were the effects of the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg on the Northerners?
Boosted their morale; helped them feel that the war could be won.
500
What date did Robert E. Lee surrender, ending the war?
What is April 9, 1865?
500
What does the 15th Amendment state?
Extends the right to vote to all black men 18 years or older.