Battles
This was the first battle of the Civil War. Civilians came to watch and had a picnic before quickly realizing how horrific the battle would truly be.
Who was Ambrose Burnside.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
What was the name of the invention AND inventor that led to the increase in demand for slave labor for cotton production?
What was the cotton gin; who was Eli Whitney.
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union army?
This was the battle with the most casualties in a single day; there was even a part of the battlefield called Bloody Lane because of all the bodies.
What was the Battle of Antietam.
Who was the Confederate general who was accidentally shot by his own men leading to his death after the battle of Chancellorsville?
Who was Stonewall Jackson.
Who was Clara Barton.
Which act invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing states to vote on whether or not to allow slavery?
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who ran against Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864?
Who was George McClellan.
This was the largest and most famous battle of the Civil War. Union troops were led by General George Meade.
The Battle of Gettysburg.
Who was the Confederate general who was ordered at Gettysburg to charge into the Union center line?
Who was General George Pickett.
Who was Harriet Tubman.
What is the title of the book published in 1852 which detailed what life was like for an enslaved people?
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What was the Battle of the Wilderness.
Who was the Union general who went on a march to the Atlantic Ocean doing "total war?"
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman.
This man made a dash to freedom by taking control of a Confederate warship, picking up his family from a port, and sailing to the Union side.
Who was Robert Smalls.
Where is Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Who was Jefferson Davis.
Union troops surrounded the city, preventing food, supplies, and people from going in or out. Then, they began bombing the city for 47 days to see if the Southerners inside would surrender.
What was the Siege of Vicksburg.
Who was Joshua Chamberlain.
This person spied for the Confederacy and got the nickname "Wild Rose."
Who was Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
What is the name of the act that made it illegal to help slaves escaping bondage and allowed slave catchers to enter Northern states?
Which policy was supposed to free slaves in the Confederacy but really just changed the stated reason for the war?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation.