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100
The general who won the Battle of Bull Run
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
100
Blocade
What is isolation of a port by hostile forces?
100
Tennessee battle with a total of 25,000 casualities
What is Shiloh?
100
One side was much bigger
How was the North's population different than the South's?
100
Union strategy to gain control of Confederate ports and the Mississippi River
What was the Anaconda Plan?
200
Confederate leader who was a former US army general
What was Robert E. Lee?
200
Union state that allowed slavery
What is a border state?
200
The last battle the South fought on Union soil
What was Gettysburg?
200
Geographic advantage the South had
What is fighting on your own turf?
200
Gulf of Mexico port captured by Union forces early in the war
What was the New Orleans?
300
Influenced by abolitionists to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Who was President Lincoln?
300
Captured war supplies
What is contraband?
300
The first major battle of the civil war, this battle killed more people than expected
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
300
All black regiment formed when the Union began recruiting African Americans
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
300
Way that African American in the South often helped Union Forces
What are spies and scouts?
400
Profession that grew with women participating in the Civil War
What are nurses
400
Act passed by Congress to ensure Black soldiers were accepted for service
What was the Militia Act?
400
The single bloodiest day day of fighting in the Civil War occurred here
What was Antietam?
400
Proclaimed by President Lincoln, this did not specifically free all enslaved people
What is the Emancipation Proclaimation?
400
After this event the Union Army actively recruited black soldiers to fight
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Lincoln wanted this before announcing the Emancipation Proclaimation
What is amajor Union victory?
500
A system that requires military service
What is conscription?
500
Most likely to kill a soldier who was wounded in battle
What is an infection?
500
Created with the Legal Tender Act in 1862
What is income tax?
500
Certificate sold by a government that will be worth more money later
What is a bond?
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