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Southern Slavery
Emancipation Essentials
Transforming Technology
Dramatic Documents
Brazen Battles
100

This "Honest" man served as President of the United States through the entire Civil War. 

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

The most commonly grown crop in the South which slave labor was extremely import for harvesting. 

What is cotton?

100

This person was responsible for the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation. 

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

This invention made the Civil War much more deadly. 

What is the minie ball?

100

This document proclaimed all slaves free in the rebel territories.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

100

This battle is known as the "first shots of the Civil War" despite no one dying. 

What is the attack on Fort Sumter?

200

This man was President of the Confederacy.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

200

These states had slavery but remained a part of the Union. 

What are the Border States?

200

This word means to free or liberate. 

What is Emancipation?
200

This invention made wooden ships obsolete.

What is the Ironclad?

200
This amendment is similar to the Emancipation Proclamation in its impact because it ended slavery.

What is the 13th amendment?

200

This battle was the single bloodiest day in American history.

What is the battle of Antietam?

300

This man famously did not flinch at the Battle of Bullrun and rallied his troops for a Rebel victory. 

Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?

300

When slaves were liberated during the Civil War, many chose to join this military.

What is the Union military?

300

Slaves emancipated by the Emancipation Proclamation were offered jobs in this organization. 

What is the Union military?

300

This was the name of the Confederacy's first ironclad ship. 

What is The Virginia?

300
This speech functioned as a "pep talk" for the Union, telling its citizens that the Civil War was still worth fighting.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

300

This battle is where General Thomas Jackson earned his infamous nickname "Stonewall."

What is the First Battle of Bull Run?

400

A Union General that came up with the Anaconda Plan.

Who is Winfield Scott?

400

This former slave commandeered a Confederate ship and served as a 5 term Representative after the Civil War. 

Who is Robert Smalls?

400

According to the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves would only be freed in this part of the country.

What is the Confederacy? 

400

This was the name of the Union's first ironclad ship.

What is the Monitor?

400

This amendment granted all African American men suffrage.

What is the 15th amendment?

400

At this battle/siege civilians in the town were starving and had to resort to eating horses, dogs, and rats.  

What is the Siege of Vicksburg?

500

This General lead his men on a march from Tennessee to Georgia where they burned everything in their way. 

Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?

500

This Confederate war strategy counted on Britain's steady need of short stapled cotton from the South. 

What is Cotton Diplomacy?

500

Slaves were not freed in these four states which had slavery but did not join the Confederacy. (List all 4)

What are the border states (Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri) 

500

This lever-action rifle could hold seven bullets and reduced reloading time on the battlefield significantly. 

What is the (Spencer) carbine rifle?

500

The Gettysburg address references this famous founding document and its ideals of liberty, equality, and democracy.   

What is the Declaration of Independence?

500

At this battle, 50,000 men died, mostly due to Pickett's charge.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

600

Known as "Angel of the Battlefield", a wartime nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.

Who is Clara Barton? 

600

This is America's "Peculiar Institution."

What is Slavery? (DUH!)

600

Lincoln was unsure about publishing the Emancipation Proclamation for this reason.

What is fear of federal overreach? (having too much power/the constitution doesn't allow it)

600

This kind of vessel was revolutionary for the time because it had the ability to completely immerse itself underwater. 

What is a submarine? 

600

This amendment defined citizenship.

What is the 14th amendment?

600

After Ulysses S. Grant surrounded Richmond, Robert E. Lee surrendered to him at this famous court house. 

What is Appomattox Court House?

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