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100
The battle that started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
I assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This is what Green backs were called.
What is paper money?
100
This term means to cut off food and supplies and bombard a city until its defenders give up.
What is a siege?
100
This was one of the major advantage that the South enjoyed in the beginning of the War over the North.
What is more military colleges?
200
This battle signaled to both North and South that the war would be a long conflict requiring large armies.
What is The Battle of Bull Run I?
200
I believed that African-Americans serving in the Army would help to overcome discrimination.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
200
This is the name the republicans called the Peace democrats.
Who were the Copperheads?
200
Congress passed this in 1862 which created a national currency and allowed the government to issue paper money.
What is The Legal Tender Act?
200
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
300
The importance of the Battle of New Orleans
What is this battle resulted in the captured South’s largest city, which was the center of the cotton trade.
300
I stopped in Gettysburg for supplies and wanted to move my troops North.
Who is Gen. Robert E. Lee?
300
These were the people who opposed the war and called for reuniting the states through negotiation rather than force.
Who are the Peace Democrats?
300
This was the Union's plan devised by Winfred Scott for defeating the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
Gettysburg is a national__________
What is cemetery?
400
Even though it was a victory for the CSA, it established validity of African-American soldiers.
What is Fort Wagner?
400
General Lee, Pickett, and Longstreet are from this side in the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
400
This is the nickname given to rail lines when they were heated and twisted into snarls of steel by Union Troops.
What are Sherman Neckties?
400
This was the major focus of the Anaconda Plan.
What is a blockade of the Confederate ports?
400
Fourscore and seven years equals_____
What is 87 years?
500
I was a newly appointed Union General at the the Gettysburg battle.
Who is General George Meade?
500
This is the term that means to search and raid for food as soldiers marched.
What is foraging?
500
This crisis erupted after the captain of the USS San Jacinto ordered the arrest of two Confederate envoys sailing to Europe aboard a British mail ship, the Trent, in order to seek support for the South in the Civil War. The British, who had not taken sides in the war, were outraged and claimed the seizure of a neutral ship by the U.S. Navy was a violation of international law.
What is The Trent Affair?
500
General Lee surrendered to General Grant here
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
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