Impress Your Adults with Your Civil War Knowledge, Room 25!

People

100

When this leader died in 1865, he was buried in his adopted home state of Illinois.

Abraham Lincoln

150

After the war, this Confederate leader went on to become president of a small Virginia college until his death in 1870.

General Robert E. Lee

200

This man led the Union Army for the second half of the Civil War.

General Ulysses S. Grant

250

This former Union general ran against Lincoln for the Presidency in 1864.

General George McLellan

300

This Confederate became infamous for leading a doomed assault on the Union line at the Battle of Gettysburg. He never forgave General Lee for it.

General George Pickett

301

This Union officer, a former teacher who had only learned about waging war by reading books, famously led a bayonet charge down Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Tools and Tactics

100

A word that means "someone who watches over," this became the name of the Union's ironclad warship. 

The U.S.S. Monitor

150

This is the Confederacy's name for the Merrimack, the old Union ship they turned into their own ironclad warship.

The C.S.S. Virginia

200

Scientist Thaddeus Lowe convinced President Lincoln that this vehicle could be used to better follow troop movements. (The idea was abandoned before the end of the war.)

Balloons

250

To help bring more soldiers into the Union army and crush the Confederacy through sheer numbers, President Lincoln and Congress created the first of these ever used in an American war. The last time it's been used was during the Vietnam War nearly sixty years ago.

A military draft (conscription, enrollment)

300

Why did Lincoln and Grant want to capture the Confederate city Vicksburg?

Control the Mississippi River, preventing the movement of Confederate troops and supplies

301

Together with the doomed Pickett's Charge, the defense of this hill spelled victory for the Union at Gettysburg.

Little Round Top

Places

100

True or false: Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg in 1863 to speak at the opening of Arlington National Cemetery.

False

(He went there to deliver the Gettysburg Address at a new cemetery for Union soldiers who had died in the recent battle there.)

150

After seceding from the Union, the Confederacy established their own capital in this Virginia city.

Richmond

200

Fort Sumter is located in which state?

South Carolina

250

The Siege of Vicksburg took place in which Southern state?

Mississippi

300

Formerly the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, this place in Virginia became a burying ground for Union troops in 1864 and remains a sacred place to Americans to this day.

Arlington National Cemetery

301

A small village outside of Richmond, this became the site of Lee's surrender to Grant in April of 1865.

Appomattox Court House

Battles

100

This battle, the bloodiest of the war, was fought in a small college and farming town in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863.

The Battle of Gettysburg

150

The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in April of 1861. The only casualty was a horse.

Fort Sumter

200

After McLellan won this battle for the Union, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all American slaves effective New Year's Day, 1863.

The Battle of Antietam

250

Sometimes called the Battle of Hampton Roads, this is the more common name of the first naval battle between armored ships, which was fought in 1862.

The Battle of the Ironclads

300

This is the Southerners' name for the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War.

The Battle of Mannassas

301

Fought in Virginia in the spring of 1863, Many historians consider this "Lee's perfect battle."

The Battle of Chancellorsville

Grab Bag

100

Fill in the blank: "Look there, men. There stands Jackson like a ______________. Do not waver! Forward against the Yankees!"

"stone wall"

150

Most of the destruction (complete ruin) was in the ______ part of the United States, since most of the Civil War's battles were fought here. 

Southern

200

Once signed by President Lincoln, what does the Emancipation Proclamation actually do?

Frees all American slaves

250

This Constitutional Amendment enshrined the Emancipation Proclamation into law, stating that in the USA, slavery is now officially illegal. (Number...)

The 13th Amendment

300

This man (1), a Southern supporter, could not accept that the Confederacy had lost the war and shot this man (2) at this location (3) in Washington, D.C., days after Lee's surrender in 1865.

1: John Wilkes Booth

2: Abraham Lincoln

3: Ford's Theater

301

This general did poorly in many of classes at military school, with the exception of horsemanship. Many of his troops wrote in their diaries about how kind he was to horses and how wonderfully he rode.

General Ulysses S. Grant