Commander of the Confederate Army for the entire war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
Bloodiest day in American history.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
100
Reason Abraham Lincoln initially said the Union was fighting the Civil War.
What was to preserve the Union?
100
Name two of the border states.
What are Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and West Virginia?
100
Document that freed all slaves in the South.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
First major battle of the Civil War.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
Union victory at Gettysburg spoiled Lee's plan to (name one)
What is gain European recognition, bring Union calls for peace, fuel Northern discontent for the war through a victory on Northern soil?
200
Naval blockade, dividing the south in two, controlling the Mississippi River.
What are northern strategies?
200
Abolitionist who discussed the Emancipation Proclamation with Lincoln.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
General that made "total war" against the south attacking anything that could help the Confederates in war.
Who was William Sherman?
300
Where the first shots of the war were fired.
What was Fort Sumter?
300
Number of Americans that died in the Civil War.
What is more than 620,000?
300
Fight a defensive war.
What is a southern strategy?
300
Capital of the Union and Capital of the Confederacy.
What was Washington DC and Richmond, VA?
400
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
This battle allowed the Union to achieve its goal of cutting the South in two.
What was the Siege of Vicksburg?
400
A major confederate mistake on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that led to the Confederate defeat.
What is Pickett's Charge?
400
Name one result of the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is kept Europe out of the war, allowed blacks to join the Union military, kept the border states in the Union, and decreased the southern workforce?
400
States that allowed slavery but remained in the Union.
What were border states?
500
Commanding general for the Union at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Bloodiest battle in American history.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
The city where Lee surrendered to Grant.
What was Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
500
Reason South Carolina seceded.
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?
500
Reason it was crucial that Maryland remain in the Union.
What was because if Maryland seceded, the US capital would be in the South?