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100
The Confederate flag has this many stars.
13
100
A woman in the Civil War south who exemplifies both traditional femininity and uncommon fortitude.
Steel Magnolia
100
Sharing a name with a popular Nicki Minaj song, what was the name of the northern trade blockade?
The Anaconda
100
This South Carolinian Representative caned Charles Sumner.
Preston Brooks
100
Who is this man?
200
What is the derogatory term for a southerner that aligned with northerners during reconstruction?
Scalawag
200
What was the controversial proposal brought up but never passed in congress that would ban slavery in the territories acquired in 1846?
Wilmot Proviso
200
Besides the South, where were the major production locations of cotton?
Brazil, Egypt, India
200
Where does Adam Domby teach?
College of Charleston
200
This Thavolia Glymph book is about the transformation of the plantation household.
Out of the House of Bondage
300
This Confederate Monument was erected at UNC in 1913, and depicts a young soldier grasping his rifle firmly in both hands.
Silent Sam
300
What famous battle is this depiction that culminated at the start of the war?
Fort Sumter
300
This battle both through its centrality on slavery and the Confederate loss deterred any foreign nations from joining the war on behalf of the South.
The Battle of Gettysburg
300
In Margaret Creighton’s The Colors of Courage, What was the name of the horse that escaped Gettysburg with its owner?
Nellie
300
This filmmaker made a landmark documentary series called “The Civil War” which featured historians as on-screen commentators.
Ken Burns
400
This Confederate general who, despite suffering a severe injury at the Battle of Chancellorsville, continued to lead his troops in battle and became an iconic figure of the Lost Cause ideology.
Stonewall Jackson
400
This man was a leading advocate in the establishment of public schools in the mid 19th century and served as a member of congress during the Civil War?
Horace Mann
400
Who did the US set trade restrictions on barring them from trading cotton with the Confederacy?
Britain
400
What is the name of the Children’s book which had an adventurous female protagonist discussed in “A Boys’ and Girls’ War” by Alice Fahs?
Dora Darling
400
Who sells the confederate prom dress as seen with Rupaul?
Dixie Outfitters
500
This social practice stems from the antebellum period and Civil War period in which enslaved people were always available as help in and around the plantation household.
Southern Hospitality
500
This was the first state to leave the Union.
South Carolina
500
What was the battle that James M. McPherson argues prevented Britain from aiding the Confederacy in the war?
Antietam
500
After the war, this Confederate “General” served on the board of trustees for UNC and as chairman of the state’s Democratic Party
Julian Carr
500
What was the name for the first type of submarines?
Iron Dreadnaughts