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Civil War Characters
Grammar
American Government
Elements of Fiction
Civil War Locations
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I was the most famous Confederate general during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
This is the name for a person, place, thing, or abstract idea.
What is a noun?
100
This document is the source of government power in the United States.
What is the Constitution?
100
This is the part of the story that contains the conflict.
What is the plot?
100
This is where the Civil War started.
Where is Ft Sumter?
200
I became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
200
This is the punctuation mark needed in a list, after an introductory phrase, or around an interrupter.
What is a comma?
200
These are the three branches of government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
200
This is the location, time period, and atmosphere in a story?
What is the setting?
200
This is where Grant surrendered to Lee.
What is Appomattox Court House?
300
I risked my life to treat soldiers on the battlefield. I also started the Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
300
This is the punctuation mark needed after the greeting in a business letter.
What is a colon?
300
This is the name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
This is the word that describes a character who is not static. This word describes a character who changes throughout the story.
What is dynamic?
300
This was the location of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
400
I ordered the execution of 300 black soldiers who had already surrendered at Fort Pillow. I became the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.
Who was Nathan Bedford Forest?
400
This is the name of the part of speech that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
I am the head of the Senate. I can make a tie-breaking vote.
Who is the vice-president?
400
This is the type of narrator that seems to be all-knowing.
What is omniscient?
400
This is the name of the actual town where the Battle of Bull Run took place.
What is Manassas?
500
At the battle of Fredericksburg, I made a terrible decision that caused the death of 13,000 Union soldiers.
Who was Ambrose Burnside?
500
This is what we call a "sentence" that is missing a subject, a verb, or that does not make sense by itself.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
I was the 16th president of the United States.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
500
This is when an author hints at something that will happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
500
This was the capital of the Confederacy BEFORE Richmond became the capital.
What is Montgomery?