Gettysburg
Secession and Start of the War
Facts
Turning Point
100

This president gave the Gettysburg Address.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

This president's 1860 election led Southern states to secede.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100
The name of the Union's war plan entering the war.

The Anaconda Plan.

100

This document freed enslaved people in Confederate areas.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200

This side won the Battle of Gettysburg.

Who is the Union?

200

The name of the government formed by the seceding Southern states.

What is the Confederate States of America?

200

Name one technological advancement entering the Civil War.

What is the telegraph, iron clad ships, or railroads.

200

The largest Civil War battle fought in Pennsylvania.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

300

About this many total casualties occurred at Gettysburg.

What is over 50,000?

300

This battle marked the official start of the Civil War.

What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?

300

These states allowed slavery but stayed in the Union.

What are border states?

300

This Confederate general died after being accidentally shot by his own troops.

Who is Stonewall Jackson?

400

This was the name of the famous Confederate attack on Day 3.

What is Pickett’s Charge?

400

The Confederate president during the Civil War.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

400

This location is where Lee surrendered. (This ended the war).

What is Appomattox Court House?

400

This general used total war during his March to the Sea.

Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?

500

After Gettysburg, the South never again did this.

What is invade the North?

500

The Union general who led victories in the western battles.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

500

This strategy involved destroying Southern infrastructure. (Give name of strategy OR what the strategy entailed) 

What is total war? (Burning farms, destroying buildings, killing morale of Confederacy)

500

This city was the Confederate capital that fell in 1865.

What is Richmond?