Military Men
Lincoln's Rhyme Time
Civil War - By the Numbers
Battles
Non-Battle Knowledge
100

Commander in Chief of the Union army at the end of the War.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

100

Abraham Lincoln was THIS number President in American history AND the color of the stop light when you are supposed to GO. 

What is Sixteen Green?

100

Lincoln gave a famous speech that mentions "Four Score and Seven Years Ago." Put that phrase into a number of years.

What is 87 years?

100

The bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War.

What is Antietam?

100

The worst military prisons in the North and South.

What is Andersonville in the South and Elmira in the North?

200
Most esteemed military leader of the Confederate forces.

Who is Robert E. Lee?

200

Lincoln's law that liberates enslaved people in rebellious states AND a synonym for "country." 

What is Emancipation Proclamation Nation?

200

The Union had a major population advantage at the start of the war. It had approximately THIS many percent of people. (I'll take within 5%). 

What is 70%?

200

The bloodiest overall battle of the war. It ensured, once and for all, that the Confederates wouldn't get an international ally.

What is Gettsyburg?

200

This assassin killed the 16th president of the United States.

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

300

General who infamously marched to the sea and demoralized many ordinary Southern people who weren't even part of the war effort.

Who is William T. Sherman?

300

The speech Lincoln gave after a crucial and bloody battle AND another term for when you have anxiety.

What is Gettysburg Address Stress?

300

At the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, about how many enslaved persons existed in the USA?

What is 4 million?

300

The siege that occurred HERE ensured that the Union army. controlled the entire Mississippi River.

What is Vicksburg?

300

Mean-spirited name for Democrats more interested finding a peaceful end to the war rather than continuing battle. It was made by Republicans. 

Who are Copperheads?

400

General who devised the Union's war strategy AND the name of the strategy.

Who is Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan?

400

Lincoln used THIS form of ruling to keep states like Missouri and Kentucky in the union AND a shortened version of this side dish that is served cold and has mayo in it (In my view, it's nasty). 

What is Martial Law 'Slaw?

400

This many Americans died during the Civil War (If you get within 50,000, I'll give it to you).

What is 620,000?

400

Grant and his men won HERE, which basically cut off an important railroad for the Confederates in Western Tennessee. 

What is Chattanooga?

400

The name for the innovative bullets used during the Civil War that were much more accurate, and thus, much more deadly. 

What are CONOIDAL bullets?

500

General who was successful at sea in New Orleans and Mobile Bay.

Who is David Farragut?

500

Lincoln suspended THIS right in border states, meaning the right to be told of your crime and brought before a jury, AND the name of an animal that is a lot like a dolphin.

What is Habeas Corpus Porpoise? 

500

Of the 45,000 prisoners at Andersonville, this many perished in the terrible and inhumane prison camp. (I'll take within 1,000).

What is 13,000?

500

The Civil War started HERE and ended HERE.

What is started at Fort Sumter and ended at Appomattox Courthouse?

500
Because amputation was the common surgery during the Civil War, this industry was born in the aftermath of the war. 

What is prosthetics?