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100

The President of the Confederacy

Who is Jefferson Davis

100

President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.

Secede

100

South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860

What is secession?

100

The first battle of the Civil War

What was the First Battle of Bull Run?

100

The first shots of the war were fired here

What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?

100

What were 2 Northern advantages in the war. 

 What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads? 

200

Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army

Who is General Robert E. Lee

200

Group of people opposed to slavery 

 What are abolitionists?

200

This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here

 What was the attack on Fort Sumter?

200

This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.

Gettysburg

200

The capital of the Confederacy

What is Richmond, VA?

200

What were 2 southern advantages in the war?

Knew the land, only fought defensively.

300

Nickname given to northern soldiers

Yanks

300

This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free

 What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

300

Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.

 What is the Gettysburg Address?


300

Where was the battle that was considered the turning point of the war

Gettysburg

300

In 1859 this abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to incite a slave insurrection.

Who is John Brown?

300

This was a law that required citizens to turn in people that they suspected of being a runaway slave.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act? 

400

The Union general nicknamed "unconditional surrender _______"

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

400

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where? 

What are states currently in rebellion? 

400

By July of 1861, how many states were part of the Confederacy just prior to the first battle?

11

400

Which battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River

Vicksburg

400

Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city

 What is Savannah, GA?

400

Why was it important for Grant to show he was going to win the war by late 1865?

Lincoln to be re-elected

500

Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"

Who is William Sherman?

500

This was Lincoln's motive behind the Emancipation Proclamation.

To encourage freed black, slaves from the south to support the Union. 

500

free space

free space

500

The battle of the Monitor vs. Merrimac is famous for being the first confrontation of these.

Ironclads

500

Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865

 Where is Appomattox, VA? 

500

Name at least 2 of the border states (slave states that stayed in the Union).

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, WV