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Events Before & After The Civil War.
100
He was the commander in chief during the Civil War?
Who was President Abraham Lincoln
100
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg.
100
This was the term for southern states who did not secede from the Union. There were four of them.
What are border states.
100
What was the central issue around which the Civil War was started?
What is does the South have the right to secede?
100
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and turned many in the North against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
He was the commander of the Northern troops at the end of the Civil War.
Who was General Grant?
200
This battle was the clash of two ironclad ships.
What is Monitor vs. Merrimack
200
This was the term given to slaves in the south who served in the Northern army.
What is contraband?
200
The passage of this legislation made the central issue of the Civil War about slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This is the term given to the period of rebuilding after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
300
He was the commander of the Southern Troops during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This was the bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
300
This is the place where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
300
Name one advantage of the North and one advantage of the South during the Civil War.
What is North- had more people, factories, railroads, more money, an established government and military South- most fighting took place on their land, had the best military generals.
300
What amendment ended slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th amendment?
400
She was the founder of the Red Cross during the Civil War?
Who is Clara Barton?
400
President Abraham Lincoln gave a very famous speech to dedicate Soldiers' National Cemetery at this famous battlefield.
What is Gettysburg?
400
term for Confederate money that is not backed by gold.
What is a greenback?
400
He was accused of assassinating President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth.
400
What was the central theme for President Lincoln's plan to bring the South back into the United States?
What is leniency towards all and malice towards none.
500
He conducted the March To the Sea through Georgia?
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman.
500
This was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee against Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's Union positions on Cemetery Ridge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was Lee's biggest regret of the Civil War.
What was Pickett's charge?
500
_____________ law was declared by President Lincoln during the war. Under this type of law, the military, not civilian courts, has the power to administer justice.
What is martial law?
500
This was the name of the Theater where President Lincoln was shot.
What is Ford's theater. He was shot to throw the government into turmoil by assassinating the President, Vice-President, and Abraham Lincoln.
500
When did the Reconstruction period officially end?
What is when federal troops were removed from the South? Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the Presidency.
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