The first major LAND battle of the Civil War. It showed the North and South that the war would be long.
What is First Bull Run?
100
This is the location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
100
The Civil War led the Northern economy to do what after the war?
What is industrialize, grow, and expand?
100
This was the Union's strategy to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War. It involved blockading ports, capturing the Mississippi River, and capturing Richmond.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
He was the commanding general of the Union at the end of the war. He won major battles at Vicksburg and Shiloh and accepted the surrender of the Confederacy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
A major battle in Maryland after Lee invaded the North in 1862. It was the bloodiest DAY of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
200
A speech Lincoln gave in 1863 to dedicate a battlefield and cemetery and he pledged to heal the nation after the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
The right requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge and receive a formal charge and trial. Lincoln suspended this during the war.
What is habeas corpus?
200
These were Northern supporters of the Confederacy that often sabotaged the North. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to catch them.
What are copperheads?
300
He was a Union general who led a devastating march through Georgia in 1864 and implemented a strategy of total war.
Who is William T. Sherman
300
A major battle and turning point in Pennsylvania in July 1863 where Lee was defeated and forced to retreat to the South. It was the bloodiest BATTLE of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
300
A declaration made by Lincoln in 1863 that freed all the slaves within the Confederacy, but not within the border states.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The Emancipation Proclamation also allowed the who to join and fight in the Union army?
What are African-American soldiers?
300
This is a style of warfare where both civilian and military targets are attacked and destroyed. Sherman and Grant use this tactic to defeat the South.
What is total war?
400
He was the commanding Union general at the beginning of the Civil War, but was fired, rehired, and fired again by Lincoln. He also ran for President in 1864.
Who is George B. McClellan
400
A major battle and turning point in Mississippi where Grant captured the Mississippi River on July 4, 1863.
What is Vicksburg?
400
A campaign in Georgia led by William Sherman that involved his army marching from Tennessee through Georgia where they burned Atlanta and destroyed most property.
What is Sherman's March?
400
This was an all-African-American Union army unit during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
400
Slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Lincoln delays freeing slaves during the war to keep these states happy.
What are border states?
500
An Illinois Senator and Democrat who ran for President in 1860. He was Lincoln's main rival in the North before the Civil War.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
A major and bloody battle in Tennessee in 1862 which was part of Grant's campaign to capture the Mississippi River
What is Shiloh?
500
A Supreme Court case that ruled that Lincoln had acted unconstitutionally when he suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?
500
A woman who worked as a nurse during the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross to help care for soldiers.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
The Confederacy's strategy to win the war involved fighting a defensive war and as well gaining what?