Slavery
Famous Figures
Pivotal Places
Big Battles
Fantastic Facts
100
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a famous abolitionist novel called _______________. It was thought to have stirred the emotions of Northerners, getting them involved in the anti-slavery movement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
100
Where was the capital of the CSA?
Richmond, Virginia
100
What was the first official battle of the Civil War at which picnickers were nearly trampled at the Union retreat.
Bull Run/First Manassas
100
Northern soldiers were known as "______" and Southern soldiers were known as "______."
Billy Yank & Johnny Reb
200
Who earned the nickname "Moses" for leading hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
200

Who organized a slave uprising in Virginia killing 60 men, women, and children?

Nat Turner 

200
Where did Robert Anderson try to protect a U.S. fort after asking Lincoln to send more provisions?
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
200
This was the bloodiest day of the war, which ended in a Union victory...ish.
Antietam
200
Of every three men who died in the Civil War, two of them died of ______.
Disease
300
Give an example of a "passive" form of slave resistance.
Burning or breaking tools Pretending to be ill
300
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
300
At which port city did Grant exercise his "bleed the enemy" strategy in the Western Theater?
Vicksburg, along the Mississippi River
300
Some battles were fought in rivers and along the Atlantic coast using ironclad war ships. A famous Confederate ironclad was The __________, formerly a Union warship called Th _________.
Virginia; Merrimack
300
Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
400

Which slaves did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation NOT free?

Slaves in the territories and border states

400
Who lead the attack on Harper's Ferry, a U.S. Arsenal in West Virginia?
John Brown
400

Where did the bloodiest battle of the Civil War take place?

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

400
After which battle did the Confederacy suffer the loss of Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson from friendly fire and pneumonia?
Chancellorsville
400
What was John Wilkes Booth's occupation?
Actor
500
180,000 freed slaves fought for the Union army. One famous all-black troop was the ____________________, commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
500
Who was chosen as the President of the Confederate States of America at the Montgomery convention in 1861?
Jefferson Davis
500

What was the Mason-Dixon Line?

The boundary separating the slave state of Maryland and the free state of Pennsylvania.

500
Who won each of the three days of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg?
Day 1: Lee Day 2: Lee Day 3: Meade
500
How did many southern whites and freed blacks make a living after the war?
Sharecropping
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