Key Leaders & Figures
He served as the commander of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The location where the very first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
The city that served as the capital of the Union.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The executive order freeing slaves in the rebelling states, but not in the Border States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The single primary issue that led directly to the outbreak of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This Union officer won at Vicksburg and eventually led the entire Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The clash between these two ironclad ships ended in a draw, but revolutionized naval warfare forever.
What are the Monitor and Merrimac?
The city that served as the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
The Union’s three-part naval and land strategy to blockade, divide, and capture the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The primary cause of death for soldiers during the Civil War.
What are infections and disease?
He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The single bloodiest day of fighting in the war occurred during this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg)?
The primary military uniform colors worn by Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers, respectively.
What are Blue and Gray?
Failed 1860 proposal that attempted to guarantee Southern slavery and extend the Missouri Compromise line west.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
The Civil War holds this historical distinction regarding visual documentation.
What is the first American war documented by photographs?
He led over 60,000 Union troops on a destructive "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is Major General William T. Sherman?
The site of General Lee’s final surrender to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
European nation that considered allying with the Confederacy, but held off after Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Great Britain?
Terms offered at Appomattox included food rations and permission for surrendered soldiers to keep these.
What are their mules and horses?
Total estimated American deaths resulting from the Civil War.
What is over 600,000?
He served as Vice President of the United States under Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1861 battle ended early hopes on both sides that the war would be short.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)?
Region that had a larger population, more states, and a superior transportation network at the start of the war.
What is the North (or Union)?
One of the methods the Union used to fund the war effort besides tariffs and income taxes.
What are selling government bonds (or issuing paper money / Greenbacks)?
Two major roles women filled to support the war effort at home and on the field.
What are serving as nurses, spies, soldiers, or running farms and businesses?