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This Civil War General was born in Lancaster, OH.

Who is William Tecumseh Sherman.

100

This battle started the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter?

100

The amount of men killed at the Battle of Antiatom

What is 22,000?

100

This lasted from 1865-1877

What is the Reconstruction Era.

100

Thomas Ewing was the father of this Civil War General

Who was General Sherman.

200

He issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Who is Abraham Lincoln

200

The bloodiest battle in Civil War History lasted for three days.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg.

200

More men died of this during the Civil War than actually being shot.

What is disease

200
These were codes enacted by southern legislatures to limit African American rights.

What are Black Codes?

200

Mr. Knight was the principal of this elementary school before coming to Thomas Ewing.

What is Tarhe Trails.

300

This famous general grew lamb chops on his face. Side burns were named after him.

Who is General Burnside

300

The first battle of the Civil War where spectators gathered to watch.

What is the Battle of Bull Run?

300

Many men fighting in the war had field surgery that involved losing one of these

What is amputation of leg or arm

300

This amendment allowed all black men to vote.

What is the 15th amendment?

300
This man fought for his freedom after his owner passed away; the battle was in the court system for over 10 years.

Who is Dredd Scott.

400

He assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Who was John Wilkes Booth

400
The deadliest one day battle in U.S. history.

What is the Battle of Antietam

400

This was the main weapon used by most civil war soldiers.

What is a musket.

400

This type of system allowed former slaves to rent land to farm if they paid a majority of the profits to the landowner.

What is the sharecropping system?
400

He became president after Andrew Johnson and he was also a Civil War general.

Who was Ulysses S. Grant.

500
This person was the president of the Confederate States.

Who is Jefferson Davis.

500

The final battle of the Civil War took place in this state. It was a "surrender" battle.

Appomattox, Virgina

500

This type of weapon was shot from a cannon and could explode into many different fragments often killing or blinding soldiers.

What is cannon ball with grape shot.

500

The Freedmen's Bureau created many things for former slaves. One of them was

What were schools, jobs, food, clothes, etc.

500

The president who took over after Lincoln's Assassination was impeached and viewed as a racist.

Who Andrew Johnson