Major Battles
The Battle in Which the First Shots were Fired
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
President of the Confederate States.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union’s nickname.
What are Yankees?
The bloodiest single day in American history happened at this battle.
What is Antietam?
The commanding Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The Confederacy’s most famous general.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln delivered this speech after the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Confederacy’s nickname.
What are the Rebels?
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
The general famous for his “March to the Sea.”
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname at this battle.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Soldiers on both sides mainly ate this hard cracker-like ration.
What is a Hardtack?
This Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
The Union naval officer who captured New Orleans.
Who was David Farragut?
The Confederate general who led Pickett’s Charge.
Who was George Pickett?
This act allowed the Union to draft soldiers during the war.
What is The Union Act (Union Draft Act)?
The invention that made battlefield wounds extremely deadly.
What is The Minié ball (conical bullet)?
Sherman captured this city in 1864, helping Lincoln win reelection.
What is Atlanta?
Union general fired twice by Lincoln for being too cautious.
Who was George McClellan
The commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Who was General Braxton Bragg?
This document announced that states could not leave the Union.
What is he Constitution (specifically the Supremacy Clause)?
About 620,000 to 750,000 is a Good Range of Numbers to Describe this.