Notable Leaders
Postwar
Major Battles/Events of the War
Civil War Amendments
People who are Notable
North vs South
Civil War Facts
Pre-Civil War
Union Victory locations
Other major battle locations
100
This man became the 16th President of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the name given to the laws established by former confederate states that discriminated against former slaves.
What are black codes?
100
The civil war was started when confederate forces in South Carolina attacked this U.S. Military instillation.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially banned slavery in the Entire United States of America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, helping turn people in the North Against Slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This is the nickname given to the soldiers fighting for the union (north).
What is Yankees?
100
This new bullet used during the Civil War led to massive casualties and injuries on both sides of the War.
What is the Minie Ball?
100
This was a network of abolitionists who secretly helped runaway slaves reach freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This battle took place at location A and resulted in a Union Victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
This battle that showed how devastating the war will be is located at F on the map below.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
This man became the 17th President after the 16th President of the United States was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This group was organized after the Civil War that used fear and violence to try and keep former slaves powerless.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
This early battle of the civil war showed that the War would be longer than 90 days and much more violent.
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run?
200
This amendment to the constitution extended voting rights to former male slaves.
What is the 15th Amendment
200
He was a former slave and abolitionist who traveled around speaking about slavery and published the North Star Newspaper.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
This was the nickname given to the Confederate Soldiers.
What is the Rebels?
200
President Lincoln issued this on January 1st, 1863, as a military tactic to weaken the South's work force.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
200
This battle occurred at location B resulting in a Union Victory.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
200
This battle located at G was the only battle that took place near the same location of a previous battle.
What is the Second battle of Bull Run.
300
This man was the general who chose to stay with his home state of Virginia and led the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This was an organization created during Reconstruction to help build schools and hospitals for former slaves.
What is Freemen's Bureau?
300
This Union Victory resulted in the Bloodiest single day in U.S. History with roughly 23,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This Amendment to the constitution gave citizenship to any person born in the United States including former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
She was a famous Underground Railroad Conductor.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Most soldiers on this side of the Civil War were fighting to preserve the Union.
What is the North (Northern Soldiers)?
300
The Quote below is from this speech President Lincoln gave after a key Union Victory
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
This event caused 11 states to secede from the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
This battle took place at location C resulting in a Union Victory.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This battle to start the civil war is located on the map at letter H
What is Fort Sumter?
400
This man was appointed head of the Union army during the U.S. Civil War & became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This is the process used to readmit the states that had seceded back into the Union after the war.
What is Reconstruction?
400
This 3-day battle in 1863, was the turning point of the U.S. Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This person was known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" and is the founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
This is the name given to the 11 states that seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederacy?
400
As a part of the Anaconda Plan, the North used this to keep the south from being able to get imports or trade with other countries.
What is Naval Blockade?
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin helped to convince more Northerners to support this reform movement.
What is Abolitionist?
400
This Battle took place at location D on the map below resulting in a Union Victory.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
400
This prominent naval battle located at letter J was between Ironwood ships resulting in a Tie.
What is the Battle of Hampton Roads?
500
This man was named the President of the Confederate States of America during the U.S. Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant officially ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This was the most important economic activity in the North.
What is Manufacturing?
500
The South had an infamous prison camp located here, known for the deaths of thousands of union soldiers due to illness, exposure and starvation.
What is Andersonville?
500
This Campaign took place at location E on the map below resulting in a Union Victory.
What is the Savanna Campaign?
(Sherman's march to the sea is also Acceptable)
600
This is the common name given to the Savanna Campaign when Union troops waged "total war" through the south.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
600
Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and West Virginia were all slaves states that didn't secede. They became known as these during the Civil War.
What are the border States?
600
This was the first African American regiment formed for the Union Army.
What is the 54th Regiment out of Massachusetts?
600
The Union victory was in the Civil War was official here which is located at Letter I on the map below.
What is Appomattox Court House?