Impact!
The percentage of the population killed by the Civil War.
What is 2%?
This man became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
This was the original war aim for Lincoln and the U.S.
What is to preserve the Union?
Women joined this during the war because so many men were off fighting.
What is the workforce?
This allowed muskets and cannons to fire farther and more accurately.
What is rifling?
This strategy led to the utter destruction of Georgia and other areas of the South by Sherman.
What is total war?
This decree made ending slavery officially a war aim for the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Americans felt a renewed sense of this following the war, an example of which is using "is" instead of "are" following the United States.
What is Nationalism?
Lincoln was afraid of losing this and allowing someone else to make a negotiated settlement with the South.
What is the Election of 1864?
This attack failed on the last day of Gettysburg, which sealed Lee's defeat.
What is Pickett's Charge?
This famously short speech said the Civil War was a chance for a "new birth of freedom".
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This Amendment abolished slavery permanently in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This showed that there would be no negotiated peace settlement with the South. The Union would be preserved and slavery would be abolished.
What is the significance of Lincoln's reelection?
The Union line took on this shape at the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the fishhook?
Lincoln was assassinated in this place.
What is Ford's Theater?
This new Bureau was created to pay soldiers and their families and is an example of expanded Federal Power.
What is the Bureau of Pensions?
Along with Lincoln and Johnson, this gentleman was also marked for assassination on the same day.
Who is the Secretary of State William Seward?
This Confederate victory preceded Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania.
What is Chancellorsville?
This state provided the Confederate army with most of its beef, for a time.
What is Texas?