A staple food of union soldiers including flour, water, and sometimes salt.
What is hard tack?
100
An event that sealed a woman's fate in this time period.
What is marriage?
100
This is the first battle/siege of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Because of this, many free African Americans and former slaves joined the army.
What is the issuance of the emancipation proclamation?
200
This job often fell to wives of husbands that owned large plantations in the South during the Civil War.
What is managing accounts and slaves?
200
The Confederate surrender took place here.
What is Appomatox Courthouse?
200
This quote represents this popular Southern opinion before the war began: "This war talk is nothing. It will soon blow over."-South Carolina man
What is the fact that they thought that there wouldn't be a war?
200
This Union general was a heavy drinker.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
African American soldiers protested these by refusing to accept them
What are low wages?
300
Obeying their husbands and living strictly monitored lives.
What was expected of women?
300
This was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
The threat of secession arose at this event.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
Origin of the term "sideburns".
Who is general Ambrose Burnside?
400
Soldiers lacked this highly desired item in the South, a group of confederate soldiers searching for these met Union soldiers and the Battle of Gettysburg ensued.
What are shoes?
400
This Northern nurse acted as a battlefield doctor and went on to found the Red.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
At this many month siege, Ulysses S. Grant showed his skill as a general.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
400
This is when a woman is forced by custom to live with their in-laws.
What is not taking the role of mistress in her household?
400
This was the man who witnessed the beginning and end of the Civil War on his property.
Who is Wilmer McLean?
500
This was a very common medical procedure used during the Civil War due to the use of new bullets made of softer lead
What is amputation?
500
Advised and urged her husband on various actions.
What did Mary Chesnut do in the Civil War?
500
This is the battle lost by the Confederate due to the interception of their battle plans by the Union.
What is the battle of Antietam?
500
This is what happened to most Southern elite at the end of the war and the beginning of reconstruction?
What is financial instability?
500
This is why Ulysses S. Grant changed his name from Hiram Ulysses Grant.
What is the fact that Grant's initials originally spelled HUG, and he wished to appear tough at West Point?