Mr. President
The Great Emancipator
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first state to secede from the US
What is South Carolina?
The first "true" battle of the Civil War
What is Bull Run or Manassas?
The greatest general in the United States before the war; he also fought in the Mexican-American War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The battle cry the Southerners used during bayonet charges
What is the Rebel Yell?
Lincoln's purpose in winning the Civil War
What is uniting the North and South?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
What is Fort Sumter?
Considered cowardly and overly cautious, Lincoln fired this general after the Battle of Antietam
Who is George B. McClellan?
The place where Lee surrendered to Grant
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Lincoln suspended this Constitutional right
What is habeas corpus?
The only item the South had more of than the North
What is cotton bales?
Lee thought this battle would bring Grant back to the North
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This general earned the nickname "Stonewall" at the First Battle of Bull Run
Who is Thomas Jackson?
Famous regiment made of all black soldiers
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This speech contains the phrase "government of the people, by the people, for the people"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Victory at this battle allowed Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He reportedly smoked 20 cigars a day during stressful parts of the Civil War
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These two ironclads fought only once during the Civil War
What are the Merricmack and the Monitor?
Lincoln's Vice President
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The Confederacy named Civil War battles after these
What are man-made structures?
Jefferson Davis called this city, "the nailhead that held the South's two halves together"
What is Vicksburg?
A Georgian might consider this general a war criminal
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Lincoln invite Grant and his wife to this play the night Lincoln was killed
What is Our American Cousin?