Food and Agriculture &
Fun and Games
Fun and Games
During the winter months, THIS type of fight could entertain an entire regiment for hours.
What is a snowball fight?
THIS person was mortally wounded while watching a play at the Ford Theater.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Arkansas, a famous 10-gun vessel that fought on the Mississippi River, belonged to THIS army.
What is the Confederacy?
True or False: Most images of the Civil War are drawings because cameras had not yet been invented.
What is false. (Cameras were invented in 1816.)
THIS was the most valuable crop in the South before the Civil War.
What is cotton?
Did the shooting at the Ford Theater occur before or after the Civil War ended?
What is after?
THIS army built the world's first ironclad ship.
What is the Confederacy?
During the Civil War, THIS technology made aerial surveillance possible for the first time.
What is the hot air balloon?
There are written reports of soldiers holding THIS type of race.
What are lice races?
THIS person killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The first ironclad ship was called THIS.
What is the CSS Virginia?
The Confederate army invented THIS to defend their harbors from Union boats.
What are floating mines?
Soldiers were usually given dry flour biscuits, called THIS, to eat.
What is hardtack?
THIS is the reason that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln.
What is Booth supported the Confederacy?
THIS Confederate ship sank 64 Union vessels before it was sunk by the USS Kearsage.
What is the CSS Alabama?
THIS is a type of grenade that was invented during the Civil War.
What is a Ketchum?
Playing cards was a popular way to pass time. Why did many soldiers not carry their cards into battle?
What is gambling was a sin?
THIS is the city where the Ford Theater is located.
What is Washington, DC?
THIS is what caused the USS Monitor to sink.
What is a windstorm?
THIS is why many historians feel that the death rate during the Civil War was very high.
What is military strategy lagged behind the military technology of the time?