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Commander of the Union forces.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Abraham Lincoln gave this speech during the dedication of a cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
Lincoln's goal when the Civil War began.
What is to preserve the Union?
100
A court order that requires authorities to appear before a judge and show cause for jailing a prisoner.
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
200
Commander of the Confederate Forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
This three day battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
200
The final surrender of the Confederate Army took place here.
What is Appomattox Court House?
200
List 3 advantages the North had at the start of the war.
What is more wealth, people, industry?
200
A Northern Democrat who supported peace with the South.
What is a Copperhead?
300
This Confederate general earned his nickname by holding up well under stressful battle conditions.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. History.
What is Antietam?
300
This called for a three-part assault on the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
List two advantages the South had at the start of the war.
What is better generals, fighting a defensive war, better trained?
300
As many as 100 prisoners died per day at this Confederate Prison.
What is Andersonville?
400
This Union general spent more time preparing the Army of the Potomac for battle and less time actually leading the army into battle.
Who is George McClellan?
400
The siege of this city gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
400
This amendment was passed in 1865, officially banning slavery from the United States.
What is the Thirteenth?
400
Freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Lincoln greatly expanded the power of this branch of government.
What is executive?
500
Hi march across Georgia created a wide path of destruction, terrorized civilians, and destroyed the morale of white southerners.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
The capital of the Confederacy, which was the last city to fall to Union control.
What is Richmond?
500
This law in 1863 was a tax on income to provide income to the federal government.
What is the income tax law?
500
"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
This lieutenant colonel led the Iron Brigade, an infantry unit from Wisconsin and other Midwestern states.
Who is Rufus Dawes?