This person said: “On the 1st day of January, in the year of the Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or...part of a state whose people...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
the first state to secede from the union
What is South Carolina?
100
Metal ships built to withstand Cannon-fire the first of which was created by a french engineer or something like that, bonus points if you know he name.
What are the ironclads?
100
Which side won the battle of Gettysburg
What is the north?
200
This nation was not recognized by its northern counterpart.
The Confederacy
200
Although he did not believe in slavery, he left the north to defend his home of Virginia
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
This was the act of recruiting soldiers into the army.
What is the draft?
200
This system allowed for bullets to spiral much like a football.
What is rifling?
200
Robert E. Lee left his battle plans out for the northern army to see at this abandoned campsite during this battle.
What is Antietam?
300
This march split the south in two and destroyed many homes and farmland along the way.
What is Sherman's March
300
This US general became president after the Civil war.
Who is general Ulysses S. Grant
300
These states had slaves in the north and were known as the border states.
What is Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky?
300
This allowed more poeple to travel to the front lines and for supplies to be moved quickly as well.
What is railroads or trains?
300
Name three advantage the northern soldiers had over the southern soldiers
large population of people to work as soldiers.
many factories to make weapons and they had many railroad tracks.
large Navy and a large fleet of ships.
400
This city was known as the Gibraltar of the south (heavily contested city.
What is Vicksburg
400
Colonel of a volunteer regiment in the Mexican-american war... this man went on to become president of the confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis
400
This female leader was well known throughout the north, She was the founder
of the American Red Cross.
Who was
Clara Barton?
400
This invention helped information move quickly from place to place. faster than it ever had previously
What is the telegraph?
400
Congress passed this law to help pay for the Civil War the first of its kind in American history which still affects us today.
What is the federal income tax?
500
This 3 day battle was declared by many to be the turning point of the civil war
What is Gettysburg?
500
This is the general who failed to attack Lee in many battles and Lincoln ended up firing him.
Who is George McClellan?
500
These people lived in the north but wanted peace with the south, known for the name like a snake.
What is Copperheads
500
One of the reasons why diseases spread easily in the hospitals of the Civil war.
What are poor medical conditions?
500
Abraham Lincoln decided to issue this Proclamation to free enslaved African Americans living in the Confederacy on January 1, 1863.