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This describes the nation made up of slave states that seceded from the U.S.A. beginning in 1860.
What is the Confederacy?
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He was a brilliant General of the South's strongest army, and chose to fight for the South because of his allegiance to his home state of Virginia instead of the North.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
This describes the non-slave-owning side/nation of the Civil War.
What is the Union?
100
The North sough to control this in order to divide the South during the Civil War.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
He was a failure in business but rose to become the most effective General of the all the northern armies towards the end of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This type of naval vessel was perfected during the Civil War and was covered in thick iron plates.
What is an ironclad?
200
This 1865 change to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
200
They were slave states divided between joining the North or South during the Civil War.
What are the Border States?
200
This executive order of 1863 freed all slaves in rebel states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
These two ships fought each other at a naval shipyard in Virginia during the Civil War.
What are the Monitor and the Merrimack?
300
The was the South's greatest army during the Civil War, fighting primarily in the East.
What is the Army of Northern Virginia?
300
This was the bloodiest one-day battle (bloodiest day) of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This term refers to a law requiring men to serve in the army.
What is the Draft?
300
This was the bloodiest battle (multi-day) of the Civil War, with approximately 50,000 dead or wounded.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This was the North's strongest army during the Civil War, fighting primarily in the East.
What is the Army of the Potomac?
400
This successful General helped rally the South to victory during the first battle of the Civil War, standing like a barricade as his soldiers released the "Rebel Yell." He arm was amputated and he later died due to friendly fire in 1863.
Who is Thomas Stonewall Jackson?
400
This refers to the complete commitment of resources for a war.
What is Modern War?
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He was a Major General and led the North's strongest army of the Civil War from 1861-1863. Though a brilliant trainer and organizer, he was tragically ineffective in warfare due to his timidness. He was removed by Lincoln after failing to take the southern capital and the bloodiest day of the war.
Who is George B. McClellan?
400
This northern General completed the "March to the Sea" in 1864 devastating all in his path from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is William T. Sherman?
400
This describes war on all aspects of the enemy's life.
What is Total War?
500
This extremely bloody two-day battle of the Civil War took place in 1862 in Tennessee, was the bloodiest battle of the war up to that point in time, saw southern General Albert Sidney Johnston killed, and included 20,000 casualties combined.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
500
These two battles in Virginia were major southern victories in 1863 by the South's greatest general, but came at a cost as another great southern general died.
What are the Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville?
500
This is the most famous African American regiment of the Civil War which fought bravely in Charleston losing half of their troops.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
500
This is the location where the the South's greatest army surrendered to the North's greatest army, essentially ending the Civil War in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This northern victory in Mississippi, 1863, gave the North control of the entire river and split the South.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
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