Important Figures
Trigger Events
Battles
Abraham Lincoln
Bonus
100
This man was elected president in 1860 as the Republican nominee.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the first official battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
This was the first major battle of the war and ended any hopes of a short war.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run
100
This proclamation announced that all slaves in rebellious states were to be set free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The first state to secede from the Union on December 20th, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
200
This man was a Mississippi planter and the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
This man was an abolitionist who took a violent approach to advocacy. The violence that ensued came to be known as Bleeding Kansas.
Who was John Brown?
200
This was the northernmost battle of the Civil War and ended in a decisive Union Victory.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This famous speech begins with the words, "Four score and seven years ago," and redefined the Civil War to be about freedom for all Americans
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
This Union strategy set up naval blockades along the southern coast to cut off imports to the south in an attempt to end the war passively.
What was the Anaconda Plan
300
A Union general, this man would go on to become the President of the United States.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
300
The Supreme Court case surrounding this man decided that Black Americans did not have constitutional rights because they were not considered citizens
Who was Dred Scott?
300
The bloodiest battle on American soil in history, this battle was a decisive Union victory that turned the war in the Union's favor
What was the Battle of Antietam
300
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man at the Ford Theater in 1865.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
300
This holiday is celebrated on June 19th to commemorate the day that Union troops arrived in Galveston and freed the final remaining slaves in the nation.
What is Juneteenth?
400
The leader of the Confederate Army and considered one of the greatest military tacticians of the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee
400
This election was the turning point for many Southern States, which felt like the US government no longer had their best interests in mind.
What is the Election of 1860?
400
This battle resulted in the surrender of the Confederate Army and the end of the Civil War.
What was the Appomattox Courthouse?
400
This speech was given near the end of the war and focused on national unity and rebuilding.
What was Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
400
This woman, although better known for her work in the Underground Railroad, worked as a spy for the Union.
Who was Harriet Tubman
500
This man was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery in the Battle of Fort Wagner.
Who was William Harvey Carney?
500
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was about the cruelties of slavery and led to support for emancipation in the North.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
This plan, named after the general who proposed it, involved destroying Southern railroads and burning farms to discourage support for the war.
What was Sherman's Plan/Sherman's March?
500
Lincoln was a representative from this state before his nomination for the presidency.
What is Indiana
500
This region broke off from the Confederacy mid-war to become the 35th state.
What is West Virginia?