This guy eventually shoots Abraham Lincoln (okay, so this questions breaks from the 1861-1862 timetable)
John Wilkes Booth
100
Easiest question ever ever: who was president of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
100
What is the general point of a blockade?
To keep things from entering/exiting
100
What is the main reason the American death toll was the highest in this war?
Every combatant was American.
100
+100 for each slave state that stayed with the Union.
Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland
200
I was the overall commander of the CSA armies and am considered to be one of the best Generals of all time.
Robert E. Lee
200
Joshua Chamberlain is most famous for leading a group of soldiers from what state?
Maine
200
The crazy wild contraption from the future allowed people to see the horrors of war, even if they were not present for the battle.
Camera
200
At the First Battle of Bull Run, what side won? What are two additional facts about the battle?
Confederacy, the picnicking thing, helped build Confederate momentum, made both sides realize the war was going to be long and drawn out
200
+200 for every state you can name that was part of the CONFEDERACY
S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas
300
This guy was the president of the Confederacy. +300 if you can tell me what position he had in the United States government before this.
Jefferson Davis
300
This man, a General in the war, later became president after the war was over.
Ulysses S. Grant
300
This type of artillery was a can filled with slugs (not the animal), that would explode and rip people to shreds.
Canister
300
Who won the Battle of Shiloh? What is one additional fact about this battle?
Union, last win for the Union for a while, Union won despite having more casualties
300
This was the first state to secede. Apparently they didn't know Lincoln hunts vampires.
South Carolina
400
What did Stonewall Jackson do to turn the tide back in the Confederates favor in 1862?
Took back most of Northern Virginia
400
This lady was responsible for bringing the American Red Cross to America.
Clara Barton
400
What were two things about Civil War era medicine and hygiene that helped to make disease so prevalent?
Not cleaning tools, no antibiotics, no sedation technique, letting animals so the bathroom upstream of soldiers, horrible food/camp conditions
400
Answer either question. A.) What is the term used for a force that deliberately attacks civilian targets OR B.) What is the term used to describe fighting that involved snipers, hiding behind trees, the "piana wire" incident, etc.
Total war, Guerilla warfare
400
What specific group of people was the 2nd Confiscation Act targeting?
Runaway slaves/Underground Railroad Slaves
500
One of Stonewall Jackson's best victories was at Ball's Bluff. Why was this battle such a massacre?
Men on cliffs shooting down into the river
500
This General was in charge of building forts all around Washington, DC and was Lincoln's go-to guy for the first few years of the war.
McLellan
500
Three parter: explain how the telegraph worked, give me two reasons it was important, and name the system of "dots and dashes" that was used for communication.
Electrical current between two ends (outlets), which when a lever was pressed, broke and created a click sound. It was important because it allowed military commanders to communicate more frequently, and allowed news outlets to get news at a much faster rate. The system was called Morse Code.
500
Why was Richmond, VA so important? Why would the CSA victory there be considered a pyrrhic victory?
Confederate Capital - CSA lost so many troops in the win, it actually hurt their chances of winning the war overall.
500
What THREE things did Abraham Lincoln do in 1861 to stick it to the Confederacy. Remember, all three things were unconstitutional.
A.) Captured two CSA diplomats; B.) suspended habeus corpus, meaning he could arrest anyone without a trial, C.) Confiscation Act, allowing Union officers to free slaves