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100

President of the United States during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

100

This document freed all the slaves in the Southern states.

Emancipation Proclamation

100

This event started the Civil War

Firing on Fort Sumter

100

This, not bullets, killed nearly 2/3 of all soldiers during the Civil War

Disease

100

The North side during this war is also known as....

The Union/ Yankees

100

A term used to describe a Southern soldier.

Rebel

200

President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

200

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution actually freed all African Americans everywhere in the USA?

What is the 13th Amendment?

200

This was the first major battle of the Civil War. Spectators came to watch the fight.

Battle of Bull Run

200

What percentage of soldiers would die in this conflict?

25%

200

The South was also known as the....

Confederate

200

Northern person with Southern, anti-Union sympathies

Copperhead

300

Famous Confederate General....led the Southern Army

General Robert E. Lee

300

This famous speech is only 270 words  and it took just over 2 minutes to deliver by Abraham Lincoln to honor those who had died at the Battle of Gettysburg.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

300
This Tennessee battle was the first major victory for the Union
The Battle of Shiloh
300

What are Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia.

Border States.

300

Who wore a gray uniform.

The South / Confederates

300

A term used by Southerners to describe their rivals from the Union (the northerners.)

Yankee

400

Famous Union General who will eventually force the surrender of the Southern Army

Ulysses S. Grant

400

Paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War.

Greenbacks

400
This battle was the single bloodiest day in American military history. Though the Union will claim victory, neither side truly won.
The Battle of Antietam
400

Having a ______ helped the Union blockade many Southern ports.

What is Navy

400

Who was hung for treason for and lead 21 men in the attack on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

John Brown

400

Gopher Hole

 trench

500

The person who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln

500

The speech starts with the words "Four score and seven years ago..." Score is a word meaning 20. Four score and seven years 87 years before is referring to what important year and event for Americans?  

1776 - the year of the Declaration of Independence.

500

One of the largest Civil War battles where nearly 200,000 combatants fought it out in the fields and the streets. The Civil War's first urban combat.

The Battle of Fredericksburg

500

7 states seceded from the Union after this event...

The election of President Lincoln

500

The army of the United States of America.

 Union Army/ The North

500

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