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100
This region of the United States was comprised of 24 free or border states in the Union.
What is the North
100
This region of the United States was comprised of 11 slave states in the Confederacy.
What is the South
100
This main crop of the South brought great wealth to the region.
What is cotton.
100
This two-word nickname was often used to describe a Union soldier.
What is "Billy Yank"
100
The equator is a line of
What is latitude
200
He was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
He was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
200
More than 85% of these were located in the North and formed the basis for their economy.
What is factories.
200
This two-word nickname was often used to describe a Confederate soldier.
What is "Johnny Reb."
200
On the map, the Confederacy is represented by this color.
What is green
300
This city was the capitol of the Union during the Civil War.
What is Washington, D.C.
300
This city was capitol of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
What is Richmond, Virginia.
300
Control of this type of network of transportation was a reason why the Battle of Bull Run was fought.
What is railroad
300
This weapon caused the most casualites on the battlefield in the Civil War.
What is the rifled musket
300
80 degrees longitude runs through the site where the Civil War began in at this location in South Carolina
What is Fort Sumter
400
This strategy called for capturing the Confederate capitol, controlling the Mississippi River, and setting up a blockade along the Eastern coastline.
What is the Anaconda Plan.
400
This blood-curdling scream caused Union forces to panic, break ranks and scatter during the Battle of Bull Run
What is the rebel yell
400
Controlling these allowed for movement of ships, troops and supplies
What is waterways
400
This ammunition for guns caused greater wounds to soldiers than any before in U.S. history
What is the minie ball
400
On the map, this state in the Union is the most northern.
What is Maine
500
This is the main reason why the Union fought in the Civil War.
What is to preserve the Union.
500
This is the main reason why the Confederacy fought in the Civil War.
What is to defend their homeland.
500
These forces in the Civil War had far greater manpower than the other.
What is the Union.
500
This killed twice as many soldiers than wounds in battle during the Civil War.
What is disease
500
The blockade in the Anaconda Plan was located in the Atlantic Ocean and in this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico
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