The most famous southern general who surrendered at the township Appomattox Court House.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
This invasion of the North by General Lee resulted in a victory by the North and was later the scene of a famous speech.
What was Gettysburg?
100
The Monitor and Merrimack were Northern and Southern examples of this.
What was a ironclad ship?
100
The Commander and Chief of the Confederate Army.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
100
This network of free African Americans and whites helped runaway slaves make their way to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
She wrote the famous novel about slavery which President Lincoln described as "the book that started the Civil War".
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This began the Civil War in Charleston, So. Carolina when Confederate troops fired upon Union troops inside this fort.
What was Fort Sumter?
200
The commander and chief of the Northern Army.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
This was the largest populated state in the South.
What is Virginia?
200
The name of the act which required citizens to catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
He was the Illinois lawyer who debated Abraham Lincoln and won the Senate seat from Illinois.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
300
A decisive Confederate victory was overshadowed by the loss of the best fighting general the South had whose name was Stonewall Jackson.
What was Chancellorsville?
300
This transportation system allowed the North to transport troops and supplies more efficiently than the South.
What is the Railway System?
300
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
300
This northern abolitionist who despised slavery attacked Harper's Ferry, Va in an attempt to organize a slave revolt.
John Brown
400
This woman was a teacher who during the Civil War brought supplies to wounded soldiers and later became the founder of the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
400
This first land battle between the North and the South earned Stonewall Jackson his nickname. This battle had two names. What were they?
What was Bull Run and Manassas?
400
In the North, prior to the Civil War, the workforce and lifestyle changed from agriculutral to what?
Industrial
400
The capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
400
This proclamation which freed the slaves was delivered by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam.
The Emancipation Proclamation
500
This general's foolish plan at Fredericksburg caused Northern morale and interest in the war effort to weaken. He is well known for his facial hair.
What was General Burnside?
500
This battle in Maryland had the most casualties in any single day of the war, and got the North's General McClellan fired.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
500
The strategy created by General Winfield Scott which limited the South's opportunity to import or export vital goods, divided them in two, and planned the capture of it's capital city?
What was the Anaconda Plan?
500
The only state to split over loyalty and become two separate states during the Civil War.
What was Virginia?
500
The first African American regiment was called this.