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100

The President of the Confederacy

Who is Jefferson Davis

100

President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.

Secede

100

South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860

What is secession?

100

The bloodiest battle of the Civil War

What was the battle of Gettysburg

100

The first shots of the war were fired here

What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?

100

What were 2 Northern advantages in the war. 

 What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads? 

200

Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army

Who is General Robert E. Lee

200

Group of people opposed to slavery 

 What are abolitionists?

200

This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here

 What was the attack on Fort Sumter?

200

This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.

Gettysburg

200

The start of Shermans March was here

What is Atlanta, GA

200

What were 2 southern advantages in the war?

Knew the land, only fought defensively.

300

This woman was one of the main conductor's of the underground railroad

Harriet Tubman

300

This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free

 What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

300

Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.

 What is the Gettysburg Address?


300

This battle was the only Civil War battle in TN

What is the battle of Shiloh

300

This was where President Lincoln was assassinated

Ford's Theatre

300

This was a short speech that persuaded the South to free the slaves

Gettysburg Address

400

The Union general nicknamed "butcher"

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

400

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where? 

What are states currently in rebellion? 

400

By July of 1861, how many states were part of the Confederacy just prior to the first battle?

11

400

This was where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname

What is the battle of Bull Run/Manassas Massachusetts? 

400

Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city

 What is Savannah, GA?

400

What was the significance of "4 score and 7 years ago?"

It traced back to the US Constitution

500

Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"

Who is William Sherman?

500

This was Lincoln's motive behind the Emancipation Proclamation.

To encourage freed black, slaves from the south to support the Union. 

500

The 3 main themes of the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address

Equality, Government, Sacrifice

500

This is when General Grant ordered the North to wage total war. It is called the war of ________

Attrition

500

Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865

 Where is Appomattox, VA? 

500

Name all 3 of the reasons the Civil War happened

slavery, government, economics

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