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Slave who stole the Planter and sailed to freedom
Who is Robert Smalls?
100
The war started when Confederate troops fired on this fort in Charleston harbor.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Most common type of bullet used in the war
What is the minie ball?
100
The South called it Manassas.
What is Bull Run?
100
The 54th Massachusetts led the attack on this fort
What is Fort Wagner?
200
"Angel of the Battlefield"
Who is Clara Barton?
200
The year the war started
What is 1861?
200
Ships that are covered by iron plates.
What are ironsides?
200
President Lincoln gave a speech at the site of this battle in Pennsylvania.
What is Gettysburg?
200
The importance of Beaufort (Port Royal) to the Union Navy
What is the headquarters of the blockade?
300
President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
The year the war ended
What is 1865?
300
The Swamp Angel was this
What is a long range gun (cannon)?
300
The north gained control of the Mississippi River after this city fell
What is Vicksburg?
300
Northern missionaries and teachers who came to the Sea Islands of South Carolina
What is Gideon's Band?
400
His troops burned Columbia in February 1865
Who was Sherman?
400
The name of the Southern general and the Northern general who signed the terms of surrender at the end of the war.
Who are Robert E. Lee and U.S. Grant?
400
The first submarine to sink a ship in combat
What is the Hunley?
400
This general made a "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah
Who is Sherman?
400
Name given to young women who worked in printing plants during the war
What is government girls?
500
The highest ranking Confederate officer from South Carolina
Who was Wade Hampton III?
500
The small town in Virginia where the surrender took place.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Lincoln used this technology to communicate with his generals.
What is the telegraph?
500
After this battle, Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam (Sharpsburg)?
500
Sherman called it the "Prettiest Town in Dixie"
What is Cheraw?