Battles
What 2 battles occurred at the same location and were Confederate victories?
What is the 1st and 2nd Battle of Bull Run
What country did the South believe would support them in the war, but ultimately remained neutral due to their abolition of slavery?
What is Britain?
Lincoln said the following about who:
"The people are impatient; chase has no money... the general of the army has typhoid favor. The bottom is out of the tub. What shall I do?"
Who was McClellan?
What was the main Union army led by a series of generals until Ulysses S. Grant took command in 1863?
What was the army of the Potomac?
What battle undermined both armies and convinced many it would be a long and terrible war? (Hint: It was a Union victory)
What is the battle of Shiloh
_________ was the President during the Civil war and the two leading generals for the north and south were?
Who is Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee?
What decree was announced by Abraham Lincoln formally issued on January 1st, 1863, which freed slaves in all confederate states?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What were slaves who fled to the Union army called?
What are Contrabands?
What port was taken over by the Union by David G. Farragut and was the South's largest city?
What is New Orleans?
After the Emancipation Proclamation, former slaves joined the 54th and 55th regiment in order to help the north.
Who were African Americans in the Civil War?
What is Lincolns paramount objective to save the Union with or without slavery, aside from his personal belief that all men should be free?
What is Lincoln's view on the war?
Who believed that the key to confederate victory was simply surviving, similar to Washington's method during the rebellion?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What battle occurred near Sharpsburg, Maryland where McClellan attacked Lee's army on September 17th, 1862, and was the single bloodiest day of the war?
What was the battle of Antietam?
Soldiers in the Massachusets 54th and 55th regiment refused to accept any pay until it was raised to that of white soldiers, supported which concept?
What were the equal rights of African Americans protesting for?
What is the name of John Erickson's ship that the Union Navy ordered to proceed South from Brooklyn Navy Yard that was eventually blown up by Virginia and sank in a gale?
What was the Monitor?