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The President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The term given to escaped slaves from the south.
What is contabands?
100
April 12, 1861, the first shot of the war was fired by Confederates.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
The battle that happened on April 6, 1892, in which the Union gained greater control of the of Mississippi River Valley.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
100
On the third day of battle during the Battle of Gettysburg, nearly 15,000 men marched slowly up to Cemetery Ridge.
What is Pickett's Charge?
200
The Confederate general who was nicknamed "Stonewall."
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
200
The Southern strategy of using cotton exports to gain Britain's support in the Civil War.
What is cotton diplomacy?
200
The first major battle of the civil war, which happened in Manassas.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
SURPRISE BONUS QUESTION! (not having to do with Andy Union Victories) The ships that the Confederacy used to help evade the Union blockade.
What are ironclads?
200
The day when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union at the Appomattox Courthouse.
When is April 9, 1865?
300
He led the Confederate army that classed with Union General McClellan's force.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
The practice of destroying civilian and economic resources.
What is total war?
300
On June 26, 1862, the Union Army was forced to retreat from near Richmond.
What is the Seven Days' Battle?
300
Otherwise known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, or the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This man was an ex-slave turned abolitionist.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
400
He took McClellan's place in the Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
People who worked to end slavery?
Who are abolitionists?
400
Jackson's troop met Pope's Union forces on the battlefield in August of 1862 for a three day battle.
What is the Second Battle of Bull Run?
400
When General Grant and his troops cut off a city from supplies and repeatedly shelling it in mid-May of 1863.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
400
Native Americans supported the Confederacy for these reasons.
What is greater freedom and slave-holding?
500
This Union General used "total war" during his March to Sea.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
A constitutional protection of unlawful imprisionment.
What is habeas corpus?
500
SURPRISE BONUS QUESTION! (not having to do with any Confederate Victories) She volunteered for the a union and organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
The famous three day battle that began on July 1, 1863, and ending with over 7,500 causalities.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This man led a large rebel army in the Battle of Shiloh, but was killed on the first day of battle.
Who is General A. S. Johnston?
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