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100
This is the President who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
He was President of the U.S. during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the fort where the Civil War first began.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This was the Civil War term for a type of pistol.
What is a pepperbox?
100
This is the state where the Civil War began.
What is South Carolina?
200
This is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate troops.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
200
He was the general in charge of the Confederate troops.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
200
This is a term that means an escaped slave.
What is contraband?
200
This was the Civil War term for a buddy or pal.
What is a possum?
200
This was the capital city of the Confederate States of America.
What was Richmond, Virginia?
300
She was made a Captain of the Confederate Army.
Who was Sally Louisa Tompkins?
300
He was the general in charge of the Union soldiers.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This was the bloodiest one-day battle of the war.
What was the Battle at Antietam?
300
This was the Civil War term for a stomach.
What is a bread basket?
300
This was a secret society organized against African Americans, often using violence against them.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
400
She started the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
400
He was the only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
The battle of Gettysburg was in this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
400
This was a Civil War term for a surgeon?
What is sawbones?
400
These were the laws that divided the South into five military districts after then Civil War.
What were the Reconstruction Acts?
500
This person assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
500
This slave was nicknamed "Moses".
Who was Harriet Tubman?
500
This is where David Farragut camouflaged his ships in order to go up the Mississippi River.
What was the Battle of New Orleans?
500
This was a Civil War term for peanuts.
What are goobers?
500
This is the full date of the beginning of the Civil War.
What is April 12, 1861?
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