Generals
Battles
Tactics
Weapons
Outcomes
100

This general led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Who is Robert E. Lee?

100

This was the first battle of the Civil War.

What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?

100

This type of warfare involved destroying infrastructure to weaken the enemy.

What is total war?

100

This was the most commonly used firearm during the Civil War.

What is the rifled musket?

100

This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

200

Known for his "March to the Sea," this Union general waged total war on the South.

Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?

200

This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.

What is the Battle of Antietam?

200

This military strategy involved blockading Southern ports to choke the Confederacy's economy.

What is the Anaconda Plan?

200

These were used to explode enemy fortifications from a distance.

What are cannons?

200

The Civil War ended in this year.

What is 1865?

300

This Union general accepted the surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox Court House.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

300

This battle marked a turning point in the war and was fought in Pennsylvania.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

300

The Confederacy hoped to gain support from these two European nations.

What are Britain and France?

300

The Confederacy used this type of ironclad warship to combat the Union navy.

What is the CSS Virginia?

300

This president was assassinated shortly after the war’s end.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

This Confederate general earned the nickname "Stonewall" at the First Battle of Bull Run.

Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?

400

This siege gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

What is the Siege of Vicksburg?

400

The Union used this strategy to prevent the South from exporting cotton.

What is a naval blockade?

400

This innovation increased the accuracy and range of firearms.

What is the Minié ball?

400

This period of rebuilding followed the Civil War.

What is Reconstruction?

500

This general was fired by President Lincoln for his cautious approach during the Peninsula Campaign.

Who is George McClellan?

500

This battle, fought in Tennessee, demonstrated the brutality of the Civil War.

What is the Battle of Shiloh?

500

This Southern strategy involved wearing down the Union’s will to fight.

What is attrition warfare?

500

These naval mines were used by the Confederacy to defend harbors.

What are torpedoes?

500

This law granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to former slaves.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?