People
Tools of War
Places
Battles
Grab Bag
100
This man served as President of the United States during the American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
100
This is the name of the Union's ironclad warship.
The U.S.S. Monitor
100
This was the capital of the Union before, during, and after the American Civil War. It remains the U.S. capital to this day.
Washington, D.C.
100
This battle, the bloodiest of the war, was fought in a small college and farming town in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863.
The Battle of Gettysburg
100
Fill in the blank: "Look there, men. There stands Jackson like a ______________. Do not waver! Forward against the Yankees!"
"stone wall"
200
This man led the Confederate Army for the entire war.
General Robert E. Lee
200
Known to Southerners as the C.S.S. Virginia, this is the old Union name of the Confederacy's ironclad warship.
The Merrimack
200
After seceding from the Union, the Confederacy established their own capital in this Virginia city.
Richmond
200
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in April of 1861. The only casualty was a horse.
Fort Sumter
200
Most of the destruction (complete ruin) was in the ______ part of the United States, since most of the Civil War's battles were fought here. 
Southern
300
This man led the Union Army for the second half of the Civil War.
General Ulysses S. Grant
300
The Aeronautical Corps was another name for the group that used this to follow troop movements from the air.
Balloons
300
Fort Sumter is located in which state?
South Carolina
300
After McLellan won this battle for the Union, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all American slaves effective New Year's Day, 1863. It is also the bloodiest single-day battle of the war.
The Battle of Antietam
300
Once signed by President Lincoln, what does the Emancipation Proclamation actually do?
Frees all American slaves
400
This man led the Union Army for approximately the first half of the Civil War and ran against Lincoln for the Presidency in 1864.
General George McLellan
400
To help bring more soldiers into the Union army and crush the Confederacy through sheer numbers, President Lincoln and Congress created the first of these ever used in an American war.
A military draft
400
The Siege of Vicksburg took place in which Southern state?
Mississippi
400
Sometimes called the Battle of Hampton Roads, this is the more common name of the first naval battle between armored ships, which was fought in 1862.
The Battle of the Ironclads
400
True or false: After the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant would go on to become President of the United States.
True! (He would become our 18th president.)
500
This man, Lee's favorite general, was mistakenly killed by his own troops when returning from a nighttime scouting mission. 
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
500
Why did Lincoln and Grant want to capture the Confederate city Vicksburg?
Control the Mississippi River, preventing the movement of Confederate troops and supplies
500
Formerly the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, this place in Virginia became a burying ground for Union troops in 1864 and remains a sacred place to Americans to this day.
Arlington National Cemetery
500
This is the Southerners' name for the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War.
The Battle of Mannassas
500
The American Civil War began and ended in these years.
1861-1865
600
This Union officer, a former teacher who had only learned about waging war by reading books, famously led a bayonet charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
600
Both the Union and Confederates believed that if they controlled this hill, they would all but certainly win at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Little Round Top
600
In which city was the Union's ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, built?
New York City (specifically in Brooklyn)
600
Fought in Virginia in the spring of 1863, Many historians consider this "Lee's perfect battle."
The Battle of Chancellorsville
600
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, a beautiful summary of our reasons for fighting the American Civil War, begins with the prepositional phrase, "Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers..."
How many years do "four score and seven" make?
87 years
