Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
What is Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
100
This first battle shattered the Union's hope of winning quickly and easily.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
100
The act that created a national currency
What is Legal Tender Act?
100
What declaration was declared after the Battle of Antietam?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
100
DAILY DOUBLE
Because of its color, the paper bank notes were popularly know as ________.
What is greenbacks?
200
Who was the major Union General?
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
In a series of battles known as the _______, Robert E. Lee boldly counterattacked, repeatedly catching McClellan off guard.
What is Seven Days?
200
The act that prohibited state banks from issuing their own notes and forced them to apply for federal charters.
What is the National Bank Act?
200
Why was Lincoln disappointed in General McClellan at Antietam?
General McClellan failed to follow up his victory by pursuing the Confederates.
200
The "long walk" refers to the forced march and imprisonment of this group during the Civil War:
What is the Santee Sioux?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Who were the two major Confederate Generals?
What is Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
The naval engagements of the American Civil War changed the foundations of naval warfare due to the first-time use of ironclads and submarines, and the introduction of newer and more powerful naval artillery.
What is The Naval War/Naval Warfare?
300
The act that raised tariffs to more than double their prewar rate.
What is Morrill Tariff Act?
300
Why was the North able to claim victory at Antietam?
Lee had ordered his forces to withdraw.
300
The initial Northern strategy for subduing the South, it entailed strangling it by a blockade at sea and obtaining control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The Union and Confederate armies built up their troops by relying on these people.
What are volunteers?
400
The act that gave 160 acres of public land to any citizen who agreed to live on the land for five years, improve it by building a house and cultivating some of the land, and pay a small fee.
What is Homestead Act?
400
What city and state did the Union attack after they could not seize New Orleans and Memphis at Vicksburg?
What is Jackson, Mississippi?
400
In March 1862, after almost a year spent drilling the raw Union recruits and after repeated exhortations by an impatient Lincoln, McClellan committed 120,000 troops to what became know as the ____________.
What is the Peninsula campaign?
500
The man who shot Abraham Lincoln during a play.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
500
This battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
500
The act that gave states public land that would allow them to finance land-grant colleges offering education to ordinary citizens in practicals skills such as agriculture.
What is Morrill Land Grant Act?
500
What did the Union gain at Vicksburg?
What is Mississippi River?
500
The idea that Britain would support the south because it needed cotton is known as this.