Who is in command of the Confederate Army’s in Virginia?
Robert E Lee
100
This battle has the title of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
100
What Confederate capital as only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.?
Richmond
100
From the start of the war, the North’s main goal was to
Preserve the Union
200
Ship covered in Iron Plates
Ironclad
200
This individual was in command of the 20th Maine regiment that defended Little Round Top and gained national fame when he and his men were able to hold off the advancing Confederates.
Joshua Chamberlain
200
The first major battle of the Civil War was at
1st Battle of Bull Run/ Manassas
200
For the South the primary aim of the war was to win recognition
as an independent nation
200
In order to rejoin the Union and secede for a second time, 48 counties organized themselves as a separate state called
West Virginia
300
to free enslaved people
Emancipate
300
This individual originally was in command of all Union Forces on the Western front, in 1864 he was promoted and given command of all Union forces in the war.
Ulysses Grant
300
The single bloodiest day of the entire Civil War took place at
Antietam
300
Confederate ships that broke through the North’s line of defense were called
Blockade Runners
300
Perhaps the most important border state to the Union was
Maryland
400
people killed or wounded
Casualties
400
President Abraham Lincoln became disgusted with George McClellan’s performance and replaced him with
Ambrose Burnside
400
During this battle in Virginia Confederate General Robert E Lee, took a huge risk and divided his army of 60,000 in an attempt to defeat the much larger Union Army.
Chancellorsville
400
This individual was the first and only president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
400
What law did Abraham Lincoln formally sign on January 1, 1863, which freed enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy?
Emancipation Proclamation
500
force individuals to serve in the military
Draft
500
This Union General would lead a historic March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.
William Tecumseh Sherman
500
Which battle that ended in a Union victory did Lincoln use to take action against slavery?
Antietam
500
This is what formally ended slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
500
This was the name given to the main Union army in the Virginia area that would continuously attempt to take Richmond and also defend Washington DC from attack.