Civil War Jeopardy

Famous People

100

I was President of the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

200

I was President of the Confederacy.

_{Jefferson Davis}

300

I was leader of the Confederate Army in the East.

_{Robert E. Lee}

400

I was leader of the Union army after the battle of Chatanooga.

Ulysses S. Grant

500

I was the person who assassinated President Lincoln.

John Wilkes Booth

Famous Battles

100

This is the battle where the Civil War began.

Fort Sumter

200

At this battle, considered the turning point of the war, General Meade defeated General Lee in Pennsylvania

Gettysburg

300

This is where Grant surrounded Lee's forces and forced a surrender ending the war.

Appomattox Courthouse

400

This major battle took place in Tennessee where Grant was able to defeat Beauregard's Confederate troops.

Shiloh

500

This was the first major land battle of the Civil War, where "Stonewall" Jackson got his nickname.

Bull Run

Potpourri

100

This famous document freed all of the slaves in rebelling states.

The Emancipation Proclamation

200

Abraham Lincoln gave this speech on the battlefield that was turned into a cemetery during the war.

Gettysburg Address

300

This amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States.

Thirteenth Amendment

400

This was the North's proposed plan to defeat the South.

Anaconda Plan

500

This was the name of the theater where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

Ford's Theater.

Vocabulary

100

This is the act of withdrawing from the Union.

Secession

200

This was the name given to the new nation of the South.

The Confederacy

300

This was the common term given to Union Soldiers (meant to be derogatory, it now is the same name of a Northern baseball team).

Yankees

400

This was the common term given to Southern soldiers during the Civil War.

"Rebs" or "Rebels"

500

This is the part of the military that rides on horses.

Cavalry

Famous Locations

100

This was the capital of the Union during the Civil War.

Washington, DC

200

This was the South's capital during the Civil War.

Richmond, VA

300

This was the location of the military prison where inmates suffered horrific conditions.

Andersonville, GA

400

This Georgian city was the target of William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 campaign through the South.

Atlanta

500

The North won control of the Mississippi River by taking this Mississippi city after a long siege. 

Vicksburg