Warfare
Name that Speech
Who Said It?
Geography
Reconstruction
100
Even in 1864, General Sherman's campaign for Savannah called this.
What is the "March to the Sea?"
100
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate — we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow this ground.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S.; let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on the earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship to in the United States….
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
This is the northernmost battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
A development in naval warfare lended its name to these loyalty oaths which barred ex-Confederates from office.
What are "ironclads?"
200
This first battle of the war was a disaster for Union forces.
What is First Bull Run?
200
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
What is the Cornerstone Speech?
200
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
In September 1862, the bloodiest day in American history was fought here.
Where is Antietam, MD.
200
These amendments represent the longest lasting achievements of Reconstruction.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution?
300
Union victory at this battle spurred President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect and defend” it.
What is the First Inaugural Address?
300
This rebellion has assumed the character of war; as such it should be regarded, and it should be conducted upon the highest principles known to Christian civilization. It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any State in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces….
Who is George B. McClellan?
300
A doubled answer here! Southerners named battles and armies by this; while northerners named them by this.
What are bodies of water and land?
300
Midterm elections in this year gave Radical Republicans veto proof majorities to tear the reins of Reconstruction from President Johnson; a presidential election in this year saw the formal end of Reconstruction.
What are 1866 and 1876?
400
Twin victories in these Pennsylvania and Mississippi towns made for quite the Independence Day celebration in 1863.
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
400
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
What is the Second Inaugural?
400
We don't want your negroes, or your horses, or your houses, or your hands, or any thing that you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and, if it involves the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it….
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
400
Two aquatic names here! Capture of this river in 1863 split the south into eastern and western sections; this 1864 campaign would split the south into northern and southern sections.
What are the Mississippi River and the March to the Sea?
400
Politicians attempting to restore the antebellum status quo styled themselves by this name.
What are "redeemers?"
500
This campaign in Virginia killed more Yankees than Confederates; but, Gens. Lee and Grant both knew that Confederate losses were proportionally greater.
What is the Overland Campaign?
500
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them.
What is Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley?
500
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free
While God is marching on
Who is Julia Ward Howe?
500
This bend in the Mississippi river, around which warships would have to navigate, made this city the "gibraltar of the west." 
What is Vicksburg?
500
This Pennsylvania congressman was the leader of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?