Major Battles
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1863 document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union’s nickname.
Who are the Yankees?
The bloodiest single day in American history happened at this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The commanding Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Confederacy’s most famous general.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln delivered this speech after the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Confederacy’s nickname.
Who are the Rebels?
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The general famous for his “March to the Sea.”
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname at this battle.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Soldiers on both sides mainly ate this hard cracker-like ration.
What is hardtack?
This Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The Union naval officer who captured New Orleans.
Who is David Farragut?
The Confederate general who led Pickett’s Charge.
Who is George Pickett?
This act allowed the Union to draft soldiers during the war.
What is the Enrollment Act (Draft Act)?
The invention that made battlefield wounds extremely deadly.
What is the Minié ball?
Sherman captured this city in 1864, helping Lincoln win reelection.
What is Atlanta?
Union general fired twice by Lincoln for being too cautious.
Who is George McClellan?
The commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Who is Braxton Bragg?
This document announced that states could not leave the Union.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
620,000 to 750,000 is a good range of numbers to describe this?
What is the number of casualties during the Civil War?