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Civil War Celebrities
Civil War Battles
Civil War Leaders
After the War
Abraham Lincoln
100
He led a slave rebellion in Virginia and was later hanged.
Who is Nat Turner?
100
The site of the battle in South Carolina that started the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
100
The general who led the Confederacy.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
The southerner who became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
The 16th president
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that depicted the evils of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
An early and confusing battle because both sides were new to fighting.
What was the first Battle of Bull Run?
200
The general who ultimately led the Union
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
200
The changes to the Constitution that abolished slavery, granted African Americans citizenship, and gave all male citizens the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
200
The speech Lincoln delivered that said in part "that government for the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is the Gettysburg address?
300
He was the abolitionist that believed in force to oppose slavery and was hanged for leading a raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
300
One of the most important battles (fought in PA) of the Civil War, turning the tide toward the North.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
The general that helped defeat the Confederacy in his "March to the Sea," that destroyed Atlanta and Savannah
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
Laws that denied African American men the right to vote or acts as jurors.
What are the black codes?
300
The state that Lincoln wanted to represent in the senate
What is Illinois
400
He was the West African captive who led a slave revolt on the Spanish slave ship the Amistad.
Who was Joseph Cinque?
400
A Union victory over the South that split the Confederacy in two.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
He was elected president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Laws that were passed that enforced segregation
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
The biography on this president hugely influenced Lincoln
Who is Washington?
500
She was the founder of the Red Cross and a Civil War nurse.
Who was Clara Barton?
500
The site of General Lee's surrender to General Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War
What was the Appomattox Court House?
500
This Confederate general got his nickname because he refused to budge, holding his ground and winning battles early in the war.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
500
A system where African Americans and some whites rented land from owners, but their costs were higher than their pay
What is sharecropping?
500
The man who shot Lincoln in this theater
Who is John Wilkes Booth in the Ford Theater?