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Nicknamed the "Rail-Splitter, was the United States President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
The incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats became known as
What is the Trent Affair
100
In order to win their independence, Southerners would have had to capture
What is Washington D.C.
100
Located in South Carolina, and known as one the strongest forts inside the Confederacy, this battle becomes the 1st of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
100
President Lincoln put this ahead of the crusade against slavery
What is the Union
200
He was the president of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
The West Point graduate and Mexican War veteran who was offered command of all Union forces when the Civil War erupted
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
The Southern economy at the start of the Civil War was based mainly on what crop
What is cotton
200
This battle started on July 1, 1863 and only lasted 3 days
What is Gettysburg
200
Issued on Jan. 1, 1863, this helped kill any chance of Europe recognizing the Confederacy
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
Nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers,” he planned the “anaconda,” or blockade of the South.
Who is Winfield Scott
300
The Union commander at Gettysburg
Who is George Gordon Meade
300
At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee took the offensive because
What is the South was desperate
300
The battle on September 17, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, which proved to be the worst single day of the war for both sides, is better known as
What is Antietam
300
The most well-known African-American Regiment from the Civil War
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
400
He often risked his life to photograph battles of the war.
Who is Mathew Brady
400
The Union commander of a fleet of ironclad gunboats who helped capture Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Who is A.H. Foote
400
The Confederate leader at the first Battle of Bull Run, he was later killed by one of his own men
Who is Stonewall Jackson
400
The key to control of the Mississippi River, captured by Grant on July 4, 1863
What is Vicksburg
400
Although the Emancipation Proclamation never freed one single slave, what would allow slaves to be free
What is the 13th Amendment
500
He heroically captured New Orleans, shutting off the southern supply line through the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is David Glasgow Farragut
500
The commander of the Union Army at the outset of the Civil War who offered a plan to “envelop the insurgent states”
Who is Winfield Scott
500
This Confederate state was the first secede from the Union
What is South Carolina
500
Grant's forces moved around Richmond for 40 days, constantly fighting, until he reached this important railway junction
What is Petersburg
500

What individual risked their life to continuously go into the South to take slaves to the North for freedom? 

Who is Harriet Tubman