These were states wedged between the North and South and were slave states that did not join the Confederacy.
What were border states?
100
This term refers to escaped slaves which had the right to join the Union army in South Carolina.
What are contrabands?
100
This was the military conflict which sparked the Civil War.
What is the Battle at Fort Sumter?
100
This man was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was a conflict in which the Union troops cut off the city and shelling it repeatedly. When food ran out, residents and soldiers survived by eating horses, dogs, and rats.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
200
This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's cotton to supply its booming textile industry.
What is cotton diplomacy?
200
This was a military group consisting mostly of free African Americans.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
200
This battle was known as the bloodiest single-day conflict during the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
200
This woman is famous for founding the Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
200
This was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he pumped up the soldiers and praised their bravery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
These were ships heavily armed with iron.
What were ironclads?
300
This was a group of mid-westerners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
What were Copperheads?
300
This battle was important because the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
300
This man declined Lincoln to lead the Union army and instead became a general in the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This general marched his troops from Tennessee to Atlanta, Georgia and burned (and blew up) everything in his path.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
400
This term means the freeing of slaves.
What is emancipation?
400
This is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
400
This was a battle which lasted three days and was considered a turning point in the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This general was famed for creating a blockade strategy to suffocate the South.
Who is Winfield Scott?
400
This is location where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
This was a presidential order to free the Confederate slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This was a series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
500
This was a failed Confederate attack up Cemetery Ridge led by George Pickett.
What is Pickett's Charge?
500
This man was a famous Union general who later went on to become a U.S. president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This is a military tactic in which all civilian and economic resources are destroyed.