The first and only President elected in the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
This Southern state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
This COLORFUL innovation was important for soldiers to be able to buy and sell things across the country as they fought during the Civil War.
What are "greenbacks"?
100
This snake was also the name of the Union plan to defeat the Confederacy
What is the "Anaconda Plan"?
100
Most of the technology and factories
What is the North?
200
Abraham Lincoln was elected in this year. Within a matter of months, 7 states had seceded from the Union.
What is 1860?
200
The number of Southern states that seceded from the Union in the first 6 months after Lincoln's election.
What is seven?
200
This innovation made it cheaper and easier to be on time as well as remember loved ones while away during the Civil War.
What is the pocket watch?
200
The Confederate Army was at an advantage because they could use this type of strategy to defeat the Union.
What is a "defensive strategy"?
200
Military Leadership
What is the South?
300
The leader of the Confederacy throughout the Civil War who signed the surrender at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Union soldiers burned this famous Southern city to the ground in the final year of the Civil War. Luda would be mad.
What is Atlanta?
300
It didn't allow you to take a selfie, but it was the first innovation that allowed people to capture and keep people and events forever.
What is photography?
300
Step one of the Union strategy.
What is blockade Southern ports?
300
Motivation
What is the South?
400
This Confederate general earned his nickname in the Battle of Bull Run because he stood firm like a wall in the face of Union attacks.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
This was the reason the Southern states began to secede from the Union in 1861.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
400
This expensive invention allowed soldiers to fire up to 300 bullets in a minute. It was the predecessor to many automatic weapons that we have today.
What is the Gatling Gun?
400
Step two and three of the Union strategy
What are control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, Virginia?
400
Resources--coal, iron, people, money, food
What is the North?
500
By the end of the war he was the main Union general. His courage and leadership during the Civil War led him to being elected as the 18th President of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Confederate soldiers won the first battle of the Civil War when they kicked the remaining Union troops out this stronghold in South Carolina on April 14, 1861.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
500
This innovation allowed Abraham Lincoln to communicate with his generals as they fought. It was the first version of text messaging, phone and internet.
What is the telegraph?
500
The turning point and the most Northern battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This speech by Abraham Lincoln ended slavery and inspired the Union to continue to fight in the Confederacy.