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Student Guide 1-11
100
The news paper journalist who interviewed the Rebel Soldiers
Who is Horace Greeley
100
First state to secede, or leave, the union
What is South Carolina
100
The "first shots" of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
Elmer Ellsworth
Who was killed in the capture of Alexandria, Virginia, in the early months of the war and became the Union's first hero?
100
618,000
What is the number of people lost their lives in the Civil War
200
He said 18 instead of the actual 17
What did one Reb recruit say about his age to get into the Confederate Army
200
New rebel government's official name.
What is the Confederate States of America?
200
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland.
What border states remained in the Union?
200
The first major pitched battle of the Civil War.
What was Bull Run?
200
The writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Optimism, overconfidence, and enthusiasm
What were some interesting attitudes of the Johnny Rebs?
300
First and only Confederate President.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Command of the Union armies was first offered to him.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
The South named its first major battle after this nearby town.
What is Manassas Junction?
300
Larger population, industry and resources
What is the North?
400
Civil War word for quick retreat
What is skedaddle
400
The issue of Civil War lies with them, said the Union president in his inaugural.
Who is the south?
400
Soon after Fort Sumter's fall, people in this city rioted against the Union troops marching through its streets, killing 15.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
400
This unique law had to be passed in the North to help finance the war.
What is the income tax?
400
April 9, 1865
What is the day Lee formally surrendered to Grant.
500
Elected by their men, unlike today's army
How were Confederate officers chosen early in the war?
500
The election of this man to the presidency inNovember 1860 provoked the secessionist crisis.
Who is Abraham Lincoln of Illinois?
500
These two capital cities were 105 miles apart.
What are Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia?
500
The war in the Western Theater started here with a Confederate victory.
What was Wilson's Creek, Missouri?
500
Tied up by thumbs, reduced in rank, flogged, ride on the "Wooden Mule"
What are punishments for soldiers?
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