First Union General to train the Army of the Potomac but was slow to put them in battle and subsequently relieved of command by President Lincoln.
Who was General George B. McClellan?
100
First repeating rifles to be used in combat.
What is Spencer or Henry rifle?
100
Here, the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumpter?
100
The first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
Two rigged elections made this a slave territory and bloodshed followed.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
Led the Union Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is George Gordon Meade?
200
Naval Warfare forever changed with the use of these in the Battle of Hampton Roads.
What are Ironclads?
200
Marked the first important Union victory in the war and provided Lincoln the momentum he needed to Issue the Emancipation Proclaimation.
What is Antietam?
200
He turned down command of the Union, offered by President Abraham Lincoln, and left the US army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
Major southern export which was taxed after manufacture in the north and sold back to the south.
What is Cotton?
300
He turned down command of the Union, offered by President Abraham Lincoln, and left the US army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Artillery units primarily fired these.
What are cannons?
300
The first battle fought in Georgia, mostly in swamp, and a big Confederate victory.
What is Chickamauga?
300
He achieved a whole new level of success at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May of 1863, when he struck General John Hooker’s Army of the Potomac from the rear, lost his left arm and had it buried.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
Book that lead Abraham Lincoln to say "So you're the little lady who started this great war?"
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Led the Federals in the "Scorched Earth" strategy to capture Atlanta.
Who is William T. Sherman
400
The Civil War is one of the last times these were used but Union Colonel Joshua Chamberlain used them to scatter Confederate attackers on Little Round Top.
What is a bayonet?
400
Spectators could not wait to line up and see the Army of the Potomac in this first major battle and a decided Confederate victory, changing the country's attitude that the war would last longer than 30 days.
What is 1st Bull Run or 1st Manassas?
400
Founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Map line that was decided would legalize slave holding below and not above.
What is 36/ 30 (also accept Mason/Dixon Line).
500
This Union General came up with the military strategy known as "the Anaconda Plan".
Who is Winfield Scott?
500
New rifled barrels fired these balls (bullets).
What is the minnie ball?
500
A monument exists in San Antonio marking this "battle" though not a shot was fired.
What is the Battle of Adams Hill?
500
Wife of the 16th President.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
500
Was easily elected President, even though his name did not appear on many ballots.