Battles
First Battle that began the Civil War.
What is The Battle at Fort Sumter?
The General of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Who is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This new form of communication was used nightly by President Lincoln to receive battle updates from his commanders in the field.
What is the telegraph?
The Union's 4-point strategy for waging war against the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Two battles that were given the same name.
What are the first and second Battle of Bull run?
The General of the Confederate army.
A famous escaped slave who helped create the Underground Railroad and is credited with making 19 journeys to assist other slaves in their escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This new technology brought the war to the front pages of newspapers for readers nationwide.
What is photography?
The nickname for the Confederates.
What is Rebel?
Three day battle in Pennsylvania considered by many to be the turning point of the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
17th President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The plantation crop most important to the economy of the south?
What is cotton?
This new technology helped bullets to spin and fly straighter as they left the barrel of guns and cannons.
What is a rifling?
The length of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
What is two minutes? or What is ten sentences?
Sherman did this to Atlanta on his March to the Sea.
What is he ordered his troops to burn and destroy everything?
The "Angel of the Battlefield" who went on to start the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This escaped slaved became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. He earned the respect of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
The Monitor and Merrimack were examples of this new type of sea vessel.
What is iron-clad warship?
The date of Lee's famous surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
What his April 9, 1865
The bloodiest one-day battle resulting in over 20,000 deaths or injuries to soldiers.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
An important "right hand man" general to Robert E. Lee who lost his left arm in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, depicting the evils of slavery?
These air vessels were used to spy on enemy movement.
What is a manned ballon?
Another term used to refer to the "draft" requirement for military service.
What is conscription?