Important Leaders
Who was the President of the United States or Union during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
The opening shots of the Civil War occurred on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces began firing on what fort in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina?
Fort Sumter
What institute of servitude was one of the main causes of the Civil War?
Slavery
What was the name given to the paper money used by the Union during the Civil War?
Greenbacks
Double Jeopardy: What new technology was used to send battle orders and to verify the locations of troops in the Civil War?
Telegraph
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War? It is where "Stonewall" Jackson was famous for holding back the Union line long enough for Confederate reinforcements to arrive on the battlefield.
The First Battle of Bull Run
Kansas
What was the name of the famous Civil War nurse who founded hte American Red Cross ?
Clara Barton
What name was given to a new type of ship that was made with iron plating and no longer made just of wood?
Ironclad ship
What was name of the Confederate general who was placed in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Shiloh
What was the name of the Compromise that allowed California to enter the United States as a free state but at the same time passed the Fugitive Slave Act which allowed southerns to go to the north and retrieve their escaped slaves?
Compromise of 1850
What was the name of the most infamous prison camp in the South? Between 13,000-45,000 people died while at this camp.
Andersonville
What form of transportation was used to move goods and troops quickly across the country?
What was the name of the Union general who led the Army of the Potomac at the end of the Civil War? He accepted the surrender from Robert E. Lee.
Ulysses S. Grant
Double Jeopardy: What battle was the turning point of the Civil War? Due to the number of dead and wounded, Lee would never again be able to go on the offensive in the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin? This book showed northerns just how terrible the institution of slavery was in the south.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the common medical practice used by physicians to prevent gangrene and other infections?
Amputations
Rifles during the Civil War were much more accurate due to grooves carved into the barrel of the rifle. What are there grooves called?
Rifiling
What Confederate general was famous for his heroism at the First Battle of Bull Run where his troops stood like a "stonewall" in front of the advancing Union army? He was shot and killed by his own troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Thomas of "Stonewall" Jackson
What city/fortress fell to the Union after a 2 month siege? The fall of this city allowed the Union to have control of the Mississippi River and it divided the South.
Vicksburg
According to Abraham Lincoln, what was the main immediate cause of the Civil War?
Secession of the southern states
States joining the Confederacy
In the spring of 1863, what happened in several southern states due to the decline in the South's economy?
Rioting
According to the text, what two things caused massive casualties in the Civil War?
rifles and trenches