Civil War People
Civil War
Civil War Events
Civil War Battles
Civil War Places
Civil War Misc.
100

The President of the Confederacy

Who is Jefferson Davis

100

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

Secede

100

first state to secede

What is South Carolina?

100

The location of the Union's capitol during the Civil War

Washington D.C. 

100

Bonus Trashketball: These states did not secede to the slavery even though slavery existed in these states (term for these states as a whole) 

Border States

100

What were 2 Northern advantages in the war. 

 What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, railroads? 

200

Bonus Trashketball: commander of the South's Army

Who is General Robert E. Lee

200
Where were the first shots of the civil war fired? 

Fort sumter

200

Bonus Trashketball: The Union's strategy for the war, to slowly cut the south off from getting supplies. 

What is the Anaconda Plan? 

200

This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war, is also the battle with the most overall casualties 

Gettysburg

200

Military strategy where the side uses all of the resources at the disposal to win the war. 

Total War

200

What civil war technology could shatter bones on impact?

What is the mini-ball?

300

Bonus Trashketball: A prominent American abolitionist and social activist who escaped slavery and dedicated her life to freeing others. She was a key figure in the Underground Railroad, making multiple trips to guide enslaved people to freedom. Tubman also served as a scout and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War and later became an advocate for women's suffrage. Earned the nickname Moses. 

Harriet Tubman

300

Bonus Trashketball: 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

Bonus Trashketball: first major victory for the Confederacy

What is Bull Run? 

300

The site of John Brown's raid on an arsenal in hopes of starting a slave revolution 

Harper's Ferry Virginia 

300

Bonus Trashketball: Name two southern advantages in the civil war. 

Military Leaders and Defense. 

400

Leading General of the Union Army. 

Who is Ulysses s grant? 

400

Name 6 Confederate states

South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina

400

What years did the Civil War take place?

1861-1865

400

Bonus Trashketball: During the battle of Bull Run, this confederate commander got his nickname for standing tall in the face of danger

Stonewall Jackson

400

Bonus Trashketball: Site of the bloodiest single day of the Civil War

What is Antietam? 

400

Bonus Trashketball: The idea that residents of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery

popular sovereignty

500

President Lincoln's main goal throughout the entire war was to __________  _____  __________. 

Preserve the Union, in other words keep the country together. 

500

Name at least 2 reasons for the Civil War

the differences in geography and the different economies of the North/South; the issue over states' rights; the issue of slavery; the Missouri Compromise; Bleeding Kansas; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; the Election of 1860.

500

Bonus Trashketball: When violence broke out in Kansas over the issue of slavery - what nickname was Kansas given?

What is Bleeding Kansas?

500

Battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi River

What is the Battle of Vicksburg? 

500

Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865

 Where is Appomattox, VA? 

500
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous book that exposed the horrors on slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin