The first shots of the Civil War were here. Lincoln said he was sending in food for hungry men, while the confederacy took it as a threat.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
The first state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
General in charge of the Confederate Army. Lincoln really wanted him to be in charge of the Union army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
True or False...Lincoln planned to ban slavery where it alread existed after he became President.
What is false? Only in new territories.
100
The Northern Strategy for defeating the South was known as this.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
The first battle of the Civil War, people came to watch the battle bringing picnic baskets.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
200
The first capital of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
200
A failure at almost everything EXCEPT the military, I was the General in charge of the western Union campaign. I was the most successful Union general at the time.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The southern war strategy
Defensive - win without losing
200
After Antietam, Lincoln issued this important document.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Even today, this battle remains the bloodiest day in US History.
What is Antietam?
300
The final capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
300
The Civil War began in my front yard at Manassas and ended in my living room at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Wilmer McClean?
300
The Southern war strategy.
What is win the war by not losing. Wear the North down, fight a defensive war.
300
The Emancipation did not free all the slaves. However Lincoln issued the emancipation in order to...
What is tell the South that if they lost the war there would be no compromise and slavery would cease to exist OR to prevent Britain and/or France from supporting the Confederacy.
400
The reason the Union capturing New Orleans was so important.
What is it was at the mouth of the Mississippi River?
400
I was the first and only president of the Confederate army.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
During the Battle of Bull Run, this Confederate General earned his nickname, when he stood with his troops at the top of the hill, waiting, just like a ______. He loved battle despite being very religious.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
400
The North was upset after the Battle of Shiloh, despite winning for this reason.
What is the high number of casualties?
400
This Confederate war hero was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh and made a daring escape by using a Union soldier as a human shield after he was stabbed and shot. He later went on to found the KKK.
Who is Nathan Bedford Forest?
500
The reason(s) Europe did not support the South at the start of the war.
What is the South sent too much cotton/Europe was against slavery, did not want to get involved?
500
Name two mistakes General McClellan made.
What is not sending reinforcements during the battle of Antietam, what is not counterattacking after the battle of Antietam, what is waiting and not acting because he was afraid of failure?
500
The reason(s) that Robert E. Lee changed his war strategy and moved the war North.
What is to give Virginia planters a break, he knew he could beat McClellan?
500
Lessons learned from Shiloh
What is dig trenches, have lookouts, and that it would have to be a total war in order to defeat the South