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It's considered the first official battle of the Civil War despite zero casualties if you don't count the cow.
What is Ft. Sumter?
100
Black regiment-South Carolina fort.
What is 54th Massachusetts and Fort Wagner?
100
This called for all Confederate slaves to be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
It's from this speech, translated-"Eighty-seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
It was the largest battle ever fought on the North American Continent.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This African American unit in the Civil War played a key role in the attack on South Carolina's Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
200
Confederate General and Pennsylvania town.
What is Robert E. Lee and Gettysburg?
200
This speech honored the Union soldiers and their bravery along with dedicating a national military cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
Population, roads, canals and railroads gave this region an advantage in the Civil War.
What is the North?
200
It is referred to as the single most bloodiest battle day in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
This shattered the Union's hope of winning the war quickly and easily.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
300
Radical abolitionist and a Virginia town that stored ammunition.
What is John Brown and Harpers Ferry?
300
Lincoln supported this action regarding slavery, thinking it would help the North win the war.
What is abolishing slavery?
300
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri wedged between the North and South are often referred to as this.
What is border states?
300
He played Robert Gould Shaw and Ferris Beuller.
Who is Mathew Broderick?
400
This was a strategy that Union General William Tecumseh Sherman adopted that destroyed civilian and military resources.
What is total war?
400
Union General destroying an important Georgia railroad link in 1864.
What is General William Tecumseh Sherman and Atlanta?
400
Lincoln proposed rewarding African American soldiers who served in the Union army by granting them this civic responsibility.
What is the right to vote?
400
The order of these events: Appomattox Courthouse, Gettysburg Address, Ft. Sumter, Antietam
What is: Ft. Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg Address, Appomattox Courthouse
400
Two-thirds of Civil War deaths was do to this.
What is disease?
500
This turning point was the last time Lee's troops would launch an attack in the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
Confederate General and a winding creek in Virginia, just outside Washington D.C.
What is Pierre G. T. Beuregard and First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas.
500
In his opening remarks at Gettysburg, Lincoln referred to these two ideas from the Declaration of Independence.
What is "liberty" and "equality?"
500
In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln quoting the Declaration, refers that the country was founded on this main principal.
What is "all men are created equal?"
500
Although they made up only 1% of the North's population, 10% of the Union Army was comprised with them.
What is African Americans?