Civil War and Reconstruction

also known as

100

battle of Manassas also known as the Battle of ___ ___

Bull Run

200

pirate Edward Teach aka...

Blackbeard

300

Union General Ambrose Burnside inspired the name of these facial hair whiskers

side burns

400

battle of Sharpsburg also known as this battle (hint:  bloodiest single day) 

Antietam

500

side whose flag was known as the "stars and bars"

Confederacy (South)

famous names

100

16th President of the U.S. (and the one who issued the Emancipation Proclamation)

Abe Lincoln

200

the grandson of this famous abolitionist was a member of the 54th Mass. regiment (his photo was seen on her lap in a photo)

Sojourner Truth

300

leading Confederate general (whose front yard was turned into a national cemetery)

Robert E. Lee

400

leading Northern General (would later become a president and is on the $50. today)

Ulysses S. Grant

500

founder of the American Red Cross and a head of the Union nurses 

Clara Barton

battles

100

bloodiest battle of the Civil War

Gettysburg

200

first major battle of the Civil War (also known as Manassas)

Bull Run

300

the "bloodless opening" to the bloodiest war in American History (only a Confederate horse died)

Ft. Sumter

400

battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi (and split the Confederacy in two)

Vicksburg

500

battle where 54th Mass. flag bearer, William Carney, won the Congressional Medal of Honor (battle at conclusion of the movie 'Glory')

Ft. Wagner

post-Civil War

100

the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment ended this

slavery

200

where Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

Ford's Theater

300

period following the Civil War

Reconstruction

400

where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War

Appomattox

500

steamboat that sank on the Mississippi killing over a thousand Union soldiers that were heading home

Sultana

trivia

100

first state to secede (separate from the U.S. over the issue of keeping slavery)

South Carolina

200

dedication of a cemetery speech by Lincoln that took 2 minutes of say and gave the U.S. new meaning

Gettysburg Address

300

first African-American group (regiment) in the Civil War

54th Mass.

400

General Sherman's path across GA destroying the south with "total war" 

(Sherman's) March to the Sea

500

name of the pirate ship that sank off the coast of Cape Cod, only recovered sunken pirate treasure ever

Whydah