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100
This is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War.
What is Appamatox Courthouse?
100
This person was the commander of the forces in the Union's western campaign.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
This person was President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This is forced military service.
What is draft?
100
This is how long the Civil War lasted.
What is four years?
200
This city fell to Union soldiers, costing the south an important rail link and its center of industry.
What is Atlanta?
200
This person was the Confederate general who was accidentally shot by his own troops.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
200
This person was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
This is the freeing of slaves.
What is emancipation?
200
This is one of the most famous speeches in American history.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
This was a key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This person carried out the Union plan to destroy southern railroads and industries.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
These were the Democrats that spoke out against the war.
Who are Copperheads?
300
This is what escaped slaves were called.
What are contrabands?
300
This was the river that the Union strategy in the West centered upon.
What is the Mississippi River?
400
The Union army laid siege to this city and after about six weeks finally captured it.
What is Vicksburg?
400
This person founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
This was the order to free the Confederate slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This was the practice of destroying civilian and economic resources.
What is total war?
400
This group of Native Americans aided the Confederates in March 1862.
Who are the Cherokee?
500
This battle was fought on April 6, 1862 and, initially caught by surprise, Union troops forced the Confederates to retreat.
What is Shiloh?
500
This person established a small hospital in Virginia that became a major army hospital.
Who is Sally Louisa Tompkins?
500
This was the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is habeus corpus?
500
These were a series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
500
This army group consisted mostly of free African Americans.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?