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Abraham Lincoln
Politics
Facts
100
To leave or break apart from a political state (the South leaving the United States
What is secession (to secede)?
100
This weapon caused the most damage and help make the Civil War the first "modern war."
What is the musket?
100
First important person in his life to pass away when he was only 9.
Who is his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln?
100
This state was made after part of its citizenry refused to seceed.
What is West Virginia?
100
Staple found in soldiers' haversacs.
What is Hard Tack or Johnny Cakes?
200
The Southern states were known as...
What is the Confederacy?
200
The Confederate Capital city after Montgomery, AL.
What is Richmond, VA?
200
State where Lincoln was born.
What is Illinois?
200
The number of southern states that seceded from the union.
What is 11?
200
Mary Todd Lincolns brother in law lost his life as a General in this Army.
What is the Confederate Army?
300
The Northern states were known as...
What is the Union?
300
Used to signal marching orders, attacks, and keep up moral.
What is music (bands or bugles)?
300
This battle became one of the bloodiest of the entire war, was won by the North, and inspired this speech by Abraham Lincoln at the cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
This edict from President Lincoln declared (proclaimed) that the slaves in rebelling states were now free, and could fight in the union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
These transported food, weapons, soldiers, and supplies and was an advantage of the union during the Civil War.
What are the railroads?
400
Name of first CSA flag?
What is Stars and Bars?
400
Color most commonly associated with "Johnny Rebel".
What is gray (or butternut)?
400
"Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth".
What is the last line of the Gettysburg Address?
400
This state was the first to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
400
2/3 of those who fought in the war died of this.
What is disease?
500
These people wanted to end slavery.
What are abolitionists?
500
Two examples of emergency wartime measures used by Lincoln.
What is 1. Martial Law 2. Suspension of Habeas Corpus 3. Shut down opposition newspapers 4. the draft?
500
Five years of leadership ended at Ford Theater at the hands of this man.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
Surrounding of all southern ports and shipping lanes and making trade difficult for the south.
What is Blockade?
500
New lyrics written overnight for a tune known as "Old John Browns Body" and sold for 4 dollars.
What is the Battle Hymn of the Republic?
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