Important People
Beginning of the War
Union or Confederacy
Events
Odds & Ends
100
The Union President. The Confederate President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln? Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
The original cause of the Civil War.
What is PRESERVING the Union.
100
Was called Yankees by its enemy. Was called Rebs or Rebels by its enemy.
What is Union? What is Confederacy?
100
The battle that was the bloodiest day in American History.
What is Antietam?
100
The very first act of war made by the Confederates.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
The General for the Confederacy. The General for the Union.
Who is Robert E. Lee? Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The name of the Unions plan to strangle the south into submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
This side won the majority of the battles in the first two years of war. This side won the majority of battles the second two years of war.
What is the CSA? What is the USA?
200
Bloodiest battle in American History.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
200
Most popular type of surgery performed during the war.
What is amputation?
300
Person who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation & Gettysburg Address.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
300
Reason why the South was upset about Lincoln winning the election of 1860.
What was a sectional victory? Lincoln did not receive a single southern electoral vote and was able to win presidency, which indicates the North has more political power and doesn't need to have southern influence/input in the outcome of elections.
300
Majority of the war was fought on the land of this side of the war.
What is the CSA?
300
Document that Lincoln issued that freed slaves in confederate held territory, allowed slaves in border states. With the publication with this document, it convinced Great Britain and France not to assist with the Confederate States of America. Went into affect on January 1, 1863.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Most of the battlefields were this before the war.
What is farm fields?
400
The person who killed President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Boothe?
400
The following states of Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware were considered this.
What is border states?
400
Three strengths of the Confederacy.
What is experienced soldiers because they grew up with a gun in their hand, they had a reason to fight (gain independence) had the best military leaders (Robert E Lee), they were fighting a defensive war (knew the lay of the land).
400
Two reasons why the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point for the Civil War.
What is 1) Last time that the CSA attacked the North. 2) Begins the winning tendency for the USA for the remainder of the war. 3) Lead to the Gettysburg address, which readdressed the meaning of the war and to keep fighting until the USA was successful?
400
Name of the bullet used during the war. Reason why the bullet caused so much damage to the body.
What is Minie Ball? It was made of a soft lead the flattened when it bone and caused a large large to bone?
500
Explain what John Brown's role was before the Civil War started?
In Bleeding Kansas he killed 5 proslavery men in front of their families. Later he raided the arsenal in Harper's Ferry in hopes of stealing weapons and giving them to slaves and they in return would rebel against their masters causing a revolution in the south.
500
Number one killer of the war. Two reasons this was the number one killer of the war
What is disease? What is overcrowding, bad food, poor sanitation, lack of personal hygiene? (Be able to explain why these contributed to death.)
500
Explain at least three strengths of the Union.
What is a larger population (which leads to a larger army, people to fill factory jobs), had experienced an industrial revolution (most factories in North able to make supplies), had a working government in place (can focus on war), most of the tranportation networks of railroad & canals in place (fast transportation of supplies & troops), grew most of countries food (able to army & military).
500
Name of general of CSA that that surrender to the name of USA General. Location of surrender. Three agreements of surrender.
What is General Lee (CSA) surrenders to General Grant (USA)? Location: Appomattox Courthouse, VA. Three agreements were CSA soldiers can go home if they sign document that states they will not fight the USA, they can take guns, horses and personal belongings home, public weapons given to Union officers, USA gives food to CSA soldiers.
500
The people and their positions who were to be assassinated after the CSA surrendered to the USA.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln, Vice-President Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State William Seward, Union General Ulysses S. Grant?
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