The growing of this plant was the main source of income for the Southern economy before the Civil War.
What is cotton?
100
This was the name of the new country formed by the Southern States that left the United States.
What is the Confederacy?
100
This man was elected president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
This side fired the first shots of the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
100
This technology advanced during the Civil War, and allowed civilians to see the effects of war for the first time.
What is photography?
200
This man's election in 1860 was one of the main reasons why the South left the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
The first shots of the Civil War occurred at this location.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This was the name for the era after the Civil War, during which the US attempted to heal the damage from the war.
What is Reconstruction?
200
This was another name for the Northern states fighting in the Civil War.
What is the Union?
200
This is the name for the document in which Abraham Lincoln declared all slaves living in the Southern States free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The South primarily used this type of labor in their economy.
What is slave labor?
300
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What is Antietam?
300
This was the amount of land proposed to be given to former slaves after the Civil War.
What is forty acres?
300
This was the nickname for the states that fought for neither the Confederacy nor the Union in the Civil War.
What is "border states?"
300
Name one of the advantages the South had while fighting the Civil War.
What is "home-field" advantage, more soldiers, etc.
400
In this system, each state is worth a certain number of points, and those points determine who wins the presidency.
What is the Electoral College system?
400
This legal location was the place where the Confederacy officially surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
400
This was the political party that supported "radical" plans for Reconstruction.
What is the Republican Party?
400
This is the main difference between a civil war and a regular war.
What is "civil wars are fought between two sides within one country?"
400
Name one advantage the North had while fighting the Civil War.
What is railroads, economy, etc.
500
These four men were the candidates in the Election of 1860.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, and John Breckenridge?
500
Civil War soldiers loved eating this flour biscuit, also known as "tooth-dullers," worm castles," and "sheet iron crackers" by the soldiers who ate them.
What is hard tack?
500
150 years after the Civil War was over, this state took down the Confederate Flag flying over its capitol building.
What is South Carolina?
500
This was the number of American lives lost during the Civil War. (Closest answer without going over gets the points)
What is 620,000?
500
He was the Republican man who led the plan for Radical Reconstruction.