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100

He realized before anyone else what this war would cost 

William T Sherman

100

This battle began the Civil War

Fort Sumter

100

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in these states

States in rebellion (Confederate States)

100

He was the most famous black man in the US during the Civil War

Frederick Douglass

100

The Union Navy would do this to the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy

Blockade

100

This general fired on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, igniting the Civil War

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard

100

Name as many commanding generals of the Army of the Potomac as you can

Irwin McDowell, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Meade, US Grant

200

Held the same rank as George Washington

US Grant

200

A Union defeat, where members of congress came out to picnic

1st Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas

200

Despite notable exemptions, most members of this party came form the south

Democrat

200

Escaped slaves who ran to the Union Army were employed as this 

Laborers

200

Lincoln could not afford these to join the Confederacy

Border States

200

Union soldiers starved to death and died of disease in this notorious Georgia prison camp

Andersonville

300

Noted cavalry commander

Nathan Bedford Forrest

300

This regiment may have saved the Union Army at Gettysburg

20th Maine Infantry

300

Lincoln needed a victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He found one here

Antietam/ Sharpsburg

300

Former slaves were promised this at the end of the war by the Union Army

40 acres and a mule

300

The south hoped for intervention from what nation?

England

300

Lee's Army was called

The Army of Northern Virginia

400

Elected in 1861

Jefferson Davis

400
The last link in the chain that held the Mississippi together for the Confederacy, it fell in 1863

Vicksburg

400

This general would run against Abraham Lincoln in 1864 on a Democratic ticket

George B McClellan

400

Black soldiers in the Union Army did not have this until June, 1864

Equal pay

400

Grant always had this advantage over Robert E Lee

Superior numbers

400

The name for poorly made Army goods

Shoddy

500

Lost a son during the war

Mary Todd Lincoln

500

The only mistake that Grant admitted to during the war was ordering a charge at this 1864 battle

Cold Harbor

500

This caused riots in New York that raged for days

The Draft

500

Union General Benjamin Butler, citing that the Fugitive Slave Act no longer applied, referred to runaway slaves as this 

Contraband

500

Robert E Lee, looking to ease the strain on the south would invade what state in 1862?

Maryland

500

The best 4th of July the Union had during the war

1863

600

Served nearly the entire war from the Baltimore Riots to Appomattox

Clara Barton

600

General George Pickett led the final charge at this 1863 battle

Gettysburg

600

With the capture of two Confederate diplomats, this incident caused friction between England and the US 

The Trent Affair

600

Because the south would not treat black prisoners of war equally to white Union prisoners, Grant ended this practice

Prisoner Exchange

600

Capturing this would cut the south in half

Mississippi River

600

This phrase was used to vent the frustration that rich slave owners could pay for a substitute to fight in the military for them

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

700

Professor from Maine

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

700

Ambrose Burnside led troops across this creek in 1862

Antietam

700
Because of inflation in the Confederacy, this item cost $250 a barrel in 1864

Flour

700

This ended slavery once and for all

The 13th Amendment

700

Robert E Lee is criticized for pressing an attack in this fateful charge 

Pickett's Charge

700

These words were shouted by John Wilkes Booth as he jumped to the stage of Ford's Theater

"Sic Semper Tyrannis" or "The South Is Avenged"

800

Secretary of State

William Seward

800

The bloodiest day in American history was fought here 

Antietam/ Sharpsburg

800

Abraham Lincoln suspended this Constitutional right

Habeas Corpus

800

Nathan Bedford Forrest sacked this fort and murdered nearly 300 black Union soldiers defending it, many after they surrendered

Fort Pillow

800

Sherman, wishing to cut through the heart of the south, would march from Atlanta to this coastal city in Georgia

Savannah

800

Invented by a French colonel, this bullet did terrible damage to the body, often requiring amputation 

Minie Ball

900

General and Presidential Candidate

George B McClellan

900

This battle featured trenches and tactics that would predict those in World War One

Petersburg

900

This man was the US Secretary of War 

Edwin M Stanton

900

Despite being allowed to fight in the Union Army, black troops were not allowed to become this

Officers

900

The privateer CSS Alabama was built here

England

900

At Lincoln's death, he spoke the words, "Now he belongs to the ages" 

Edwin M. Stanton

1000

Killed at the first Battle of the Wilderness in 1863

Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson

1000

The second battle to occur on this ground, wounded soldiers perished in a forest fire, surrounded by corpses from the battle a year previous

The Wilderness

1000

This man served Lincoln as Secretary of State

William Seward

1000

This regiment gained fame as the second black regiment in US history and was the basis for the film "Glory"

54th Massachusetts

1000

Anchoring the left flank of the Union Army, this hill was the key to the victory at Gettysburg

Little Round Top

1000

These two victories secured the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1864

Mobile and Atlanta