"General-Lee" Interesting Facts
site of South's surrender
What is Appomattox Court House?
bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history
What is Antietam?
Northern Democrats who opposed the war
What are Copperheads?
notorious Confederate prison
What is Andersonville?
speech that "remade America"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Union admiral who captured New Orleans
Who is David Farrugat?
outlawed slavery in the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
freed slaves under Confederate control
Emancipation Proclamation
first major battle of the Civil War
What is Bull Run?
Union's ironclad warship
What is the Monitor?
tax that takes a percentage of what someone earns
What is the income tax?
battle that many consider a turning point of the Civil War
leader of the destructive march through Georgia
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
person who assassinated President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
battle that started the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
General who led Confederate soldiers to victory at Bull Run
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Union General who was fired by President Lincoln and ran against Lincoln for president in 1864
Who is George McClellan?
Union General who led his soldiers to victory at Shiloh
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
South's ironclad warship that was later renamed the Virginia
What is Merrimack?
Confederate General who had opposed secession but cast his lot with his beloved state of Virginia
Who is Robert E. Lee?
incident whereby the British threatened war against the Union due to the Union capture of two Confederate diplomats aboard a British ship
What is the Trent Affair?
date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued
What is January 1, 1863?
court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
What is habeas corpus?
gruesome massacre in Tennessee whereby Confederate troops executed over 200 African American prisoners and some whites as they begged for their lives
battle in which the Confederates won, but General Stonewall Jackson was killed by friendly fire
What is Chancellorsville?