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President Lincoln gives executive order after the north's victory in the Battle of Antietam. The purpose of this order was to state that all slaves in Confederate States were to be set free.
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Union General MacLelland
Which Civil War General did President Abraham Lincoln fire multiple times during the war?
100
Battle of Shiloh
On April 6, 1862, Confederate troops surprise Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his 40,000 men by the Tennessee River. Grant counterattacks the next day, eventually earning a Union victory. Name this battle.
100
At Chancellorsville, the Confederates lost General Stonewall Jackson.
At which battle did the Confederates lose an important leader?
100
What is the new rifle musket.
A combination of new, highly effective weapons and out-modeled tactics made the Civil War the bloodiest conflict in American history. A nation of 32,000,000 people lost 714,245 mend killed and wounded. This was almost exactly the same number lost in World War II when the nation was larger. The weapon that produced many of these casualties was:
200
An executive order given by President Lincoln that stated all slaves in the rebellious states would be set free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Ulysses S. Grant
This individual served in the Mexican-American War in 1842, rejoined the United States Army for the Civil War and won some key victories for the Union Army. Eventually this man rises in the ranks to be the supreme commander by the end of the Civil War.
200
Clara Barton
She volunteers to help soldiers caught in a riot in Baltimore, Maryland. She is best remembered for carrying first aid supplies and takes them to battlefields. She helps soldiers after the battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam, and Fort Wagner. Name this person.
200
1861-1865
What years did the Civil War begin and end?
200
Bayonet
Of a reported 250,000 injured soldiers treated in Union hospitals during the war, only 922 were reported to have been injured by what was referred to as an “edged weapon.” What is the sharp-edged on the end of a musket?
300
Sumter
Addressing Congress, Lincoln said, "Then, thereby, the assailants of the Government, began the conflict of arms." He was referring to Confederate forces firing on which fort in 1861?
300
Frederick Douglass
Born a slave in Maryland and tries to escape several times before finally making his way to freedom in 1838. This individual writes a best-selling autobiography. Name this person.
300
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How many major battles were there in the Civil War?
300
Ambrose E. Burnside
President Lincoln chose to replace MacLelland with which General?
300
Anaconda Plan
What is the plan that was designed to suck the life out of the south?
400
South Carolina
What was the FIRST state to succeed from the Union?
400
Mary Boykin Chestnut
Who wrote a diary that gave historians a great idea of what life was like on the home front?
400
Antietam
During this battle, there were 36 casualties every two minutes for 12 hours. It was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war. Which battle is this?
400
What is sucede
The pull out or withdraw from;
400
The Union wanted to gain control over the Mississippi River so that they could control trade and supplies.This was part of the Anaconda Plan, which was designed to suck the life out of the south so that the south would have no will to continue fighting. David Farragut attacked the two forts from the Gulf of Mexico and helped the Union take control of New Orleans.
Why did the Union want control over the Mississippi River? And, how did Union commander David Farragut play a role in 1862?
500
11 southern states succeeded from the Union
How many total southern states succeeded from the Union?
500
John Wilkes Booth
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
500
Battle of Gettysburg
What battle caused the most casualties in the Civil War?
500
What is popular sovereignty
A region's power to rule itself and make its own laws.
500
Total War
William Tecumseh Sherman in 1864 commanded the Union armies of the West in the decisive drive from Chattanooga to Atlanta and the famous “march to the sea” across Georgia. Sherman’s troops carried the war to the Southern home front and blazed a wide path of destruction that delivered the death blow to the Confederacy’s will and ability to fight. He invented the battle strategy:
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