Causes of the War
100: What was the North’s economy based on?
Industrial economy with factories and railroads
100: Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
100: What was the bloodiest single-day battle?
Battle of Antietam
100: Who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
100: What tactic did General Sherman use during his March to the Sea?
Total war
200: What was the South’s main argument for ignoring federal laws?
States' rights
200: Which side had more factories, railroads, and money?
The Union
200: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in Confederate states
200: What did women do on the home front?
Ran farms/businesses, became nurses
200: Who surrendered to whom to end the war?
Lee surrendered to Grant
300: Who were two famous abolitionists?
Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison
300: Who was the Confederate president?
Jefferson Davis
300: Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point?
It stopped Lee’s invasion of the North
300: What was the name of the famous African American regiment?
54th Massachusetts Regiment
300: Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
Ford’s Theatre
400: What law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
400: What was the Union’s war strategy called?
The Anaconda Plan
400: What major river did the Union gain control of at Vicksburg?
Mississippi River
400: What were the 1863 New York Draft Riots about?
Anger over the draft and ability of the wealthy to pay to avoid service
400: What amendment ended slavery?
13th Amendment
500: What did the Dred Scott decision say about enslaved people?
That they could not be citizens
500: What was the first major battle of the Civil War, won by the South?
Battle of Bull Run
500: What speech did Lincoln give to honor fallen soldiers and promote unity?
The Gettysburg Address
500: What prison was known for poor conditions?
Andersonville Prison
500: Name one major effect of the Civil War.
Federal government strengthened, slavery abolished, or Southern economy destroyed