Key Figures
Major Battles
Terms
Major Battles 2
Misc
100
President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
100
First major battle of the Civil War, took place in Virginia, and many civilians came to watch.
(First) Battle of Bull Run (Battle of Manassas)
100
A strategy that targets not only enemy armies but also civilians and resources.
Total War
100
Known as one of the bloodiest battles of the war, it was fought at the same place as an earlier battle (roughly a year apart) ...This was the redux.
The Second Battle of Bull Run
100
What was the main reason that States started to secede from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860
200
Confederate leader known for his military prowess... eventually surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E. Lee
200
Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy.
Anaconda Plan
200
Law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners.
Fugitive Slave Act
200
The bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, after which Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
200
What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
300
Confederate with a cool nickname who died at Chancellorsville. (Robert E. Lee's right hand man)
Stonewall Jackson
300
This Battle had an attack known as "Pickett's Charge" which failed and led to a Union Victory.
Gettysburg
300
People who escaped slavery and came to Union lines were called this.
Contraband
300
Where was the Battle Flag that the 1st Minnesota Captured at the Battle of Gettysburg from?
Virginia
300
Why was the war so deadly?
Old Tactics, New Technologies, fighting was so close.
400
Union general who led a "Total War" campaign through the South.
William Tecumseh Sherman
400
Campaign led by Sherman that destroyed both southerner's supplies and morale.
March to the Sea
400
Act that allowed African Americans to serve in the Union military.
The Militia Act
400
This Confederate victory showcased Stonewall Jackson’s defensive skill and was the battle that he was gravely injured.
Battle of Chancellorsville
400
What Act caused many Northerners to side with Abolitionists prior to the war?
The Fugitive Slave Act
500
Union general known for being too cautious eventually runs against Abraham Lincoln for President in 1864.
George B. McClellan
500
Union victory that gave control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
500
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is the wearing down of the enemy through constant losses. ("A War of ______")
Attrition
500
This Union victory in Tennessee was costly but helped secure the Western theater. Ulysses S. Grant won, but was nicknamed the Butcher due to the high casulties he tended to suffer.
Shiloh
500
In what ways were African American soldier discriminated against in the Union military?
Give me 2.
Lower Pay, worked jobs that white soldiers did not want, forced to work non-combat positions, supply and physical labor jobs.