This general led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This type of warfare involved destroying infrastructure to weaken the enemy.
What is total war?
This was the most commonly used firearm during the Civil War.
What is the rifled musket?
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Known for his "March to the Sea," this Union general waged total war on the South.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This military strategy involved blockading Southern ports to choke the Confederacy's economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These were used to explode enemy fortifications from a distance.
What are cannons?
The Civil War ended in this year.
What is 1865?
This Union general accepted the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle marked a turning point in the war and was fought in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The Confederacy hoped to gain support from these two European nations.
What are Britain and France?
The Confederacy used this type of ironclad warship to combat the Union navy.
What is the CSS Virginia?
This president was assassinated shortly after the war’s end.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Confederate general earned the nickname "Stonewall" at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This siege gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The Union used this strategy to prevent the South from exporting cotton.
What is a naval blockade?
This innovation increased the accuracy and range of firearms.
What is the Minié ball?
This period of rebuilding followed the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This general was fired by President Lincoln for his cautious approach during the Peninsula Campaign.
Who is George McClellan?
This battle, fought in Tennessee, demonstrated the brutality of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This Southern strategy involved wearing down the Union’s will to fight.
What is attrition warfare?
These naval mines were used by the Confederacy to defend harbors.
What are torpedoes?
This law granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?