Key Terms
Key People
Key Battles
Key Events
Key Generals
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Slave-owning states that did not secede.
What are border states?
100
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
100
Issued by Lincoln to free slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Fired by Lincoln twice for serious mistakes.
Who is George McClellan?
200
Closing off access to ports and trade at sea.
What is a blockade?
200
Commander of the Union forces who wouldn't fight.
Who is George McClellan?
200
Two turning point battles that concluded on the same day 0 July 4, 1863.
What are the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
200
This was the name of the most famous group of African American soldiers.
What is the Massachusetts 54th?
200
Commander of Union forces at Shiloh and Vicksburg.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Strategy that William Tecumseh Sherman used against the South.
What is total war?
300
Union nurse in the battlefield and founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
First battle of the Civil War after war was declared.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
300
This adjective best describes the surrender terms that Grant offered to Lee at Appomattox.
What is generous?
300
Commander of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
This was used to restore order in Maryland and keep the state from seceding.
What is martial law?
400
Name given to Northern Democrats who opposed the war.
Who are Copperheads?
400
Name of the campaign that used total war.
What is the March to the Sea?
400
Northerners could avoid this by paying $300.
What is the draft?
400
Commander of the Union forces at Gettysburg.
Who is George Meade?
500
The Civil War marked the first time the federal government issued one of these, which was used to help pay for the war.
What is an income tax?
500
Received a letter from Lincoln describing Lincoln's thoughts about slavery and the Civil War.
Who is Horace Greeley?
500
When this city was captured after a seven week siege, Richmond fell that same evening, ending the Civil War.
What is Petersburg?
500
The precise definition of casualty.
What is a person killed, captured, missing, or wounded in action?
500
Killed by friendly fire; shot at the Battle of Chancelorville and died from his wounds a few days later.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
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