This man was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This battle was the costliest of the war, and took place over three days in 1863 in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
This was a new type of fighting ship, armored with metal to make it more difficult to damage with cannon fire.
What is an ironclad?
100
This important cash crop was the reason the South hoped European nations would come to its aid.
What is "King" Cotton?
100
Abraham Lincoln passed this in late 1862 after the victory at Antietam and "freed" the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
He was a great Confederate general who was unfortunately killed by his own sentries.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
200
This was the battle that really "started" the Civil War, and was attended by civilians and reporters from Washington, D.C.
What is the Battle of First Manassas?
200
Made of lead and invented in France, this was a new type of bullet that replaced the musket ball and contributed to the high death tolls in the Civil War.
What is the Minie Ball?
200
The Union had a much better one of these, which enabled it to form a blockade around the South.
What is a navy?
200
This was the first all-black regiment in the Union Army.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
300
He was the Union leader at Shiloh and Vicksburg, and was later appointed to lead all Union forces in the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This was a large battle in 1862 in Tennessee, and was the Union's first victory in the West. Its name means "place of peace."
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
300
The term for a twist in the barrel of a gun that spins the bullet and makes it much more accurate.
What is rifling?
300
Both sides implemented one of these, also known as conscription, to add desperately-needed men to their ranks.
What is a draft?
300
This man commanded the first all-black regiment of the Union Army.
Who is Robert Gould Shaw?
400
He was the Union general who waited too long for pontoon bridges at Fredericksburg, and then made his troops charge up a hill at the Confederates.
Who is Ambrose Burnside?
400
This was the name of George McClellan's quest to take Richmond from the East in 1862.
What is the Peninsula Campaign?
400
These were Democrats in the U.S. Congress who pushed for peace with and recognition of the Confederacy.
What are Copperheads?
400
Abraham Lincoln suspended this writ of the Constitution, which said that the government needed a reason to arrest a person or to hold a person in jail.
What is Habeas Corpus?
400
This was the fort that was attacked at the end of "Glory."
What is Fort Wagner?
500
He was the man who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President of the Union.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
Stonewall Jackson was killed by his own sentries at this battle in Virginia.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
500
This type of universal currency was put into circulation by the Union while its economy was booming in the latter half of the war.
What are greenbacks?
500
Many Southerners believed very strongly in this, which kept people from coming together for the common good. Jefferson Davis struggled with this every day when trying to make decisions.
What are States' Rights?
500
The Union used this rule to actually free the slaves after Lincoln "freed" them symbolically.