Battles
This is where shots were first fired, initiating the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This document was issued after The Battle at Antietam, and it freed the slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the Confederate commanding general.
Who was Robert E Lee
This is a war where citizens against one nation fight against one another.
What is a civil war?
This is the capital of the Confederate States of America.
What is Richmond?
The bloodies single day battle of the war
These are states that were in the Union but still had slaves.
What are border states?
This was Ulysses Grant's nickname in school
What is Useless Grant?
This man was the President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
Grant let Lee and his men keep this when they surrendered
This battle was nicknamed the Picnic Battle, because Northerners packed their picnics to watch the conflict.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run/Manasses?
This was the man who ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election
Who is McClellan?
This general failed to pursue retreating Confederate forces at Antietam. Lincoln fired him afterwards.
Who was General McClellan?
This was the nickname for Northern Democrats.
What are Copperheads?
This is the military academy that many of the Civil War generals attended.
What is West Point?
This battle separated Arkansas and Texas from the rest of the Confederate States.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This is the name of the man who assassinated Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This general succeeded McClellan. He was very emotional and reckless. He is remembered for his facial hair.
Who is General Burnside?
This a kind of war that is not confined to battlefields, but rather bleeds into civilian streets to attack the infrastructure of a nation.
What is total warfare?
Lincoln was assassinated on this religious day.
What is Good Friday?
It was at this battle that Stonewall Jackson was killed on accident by one of his own men.
What is The Battle of Chancellorsville?
Lincoln and Davis both suspended this during the war. It is the right to a courthearing prior to detention.
What is habeus corpus?
This was Sherman's "Christmas Present" to Lincoln in 1864.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
This was the theory that Confederate States used to justify their idea that the Constitution was not a binding document
What is the Compact Theory?
These were the words Booth proclaimed on the stage, after shooting Lincoln
Sic Semper Tyrannis: Thus Always to Tyrants