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He was the commander of the Confederate troops in the East.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
This battle, fought on July 21, 1861, made it clear to both sides that the war would be a long, hard fought one.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
100
This was the Union's two part plan to defeat the South.
What is the Anaconda plan?
100
This was the #1 Killer of soldiers during the Civil War.
What is disease?
100
He was the Union commander at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is George G. Meade?
200
He was originally in charge of Union troops in the West but then moved East after the fall of Vicksburg. He accepted Lee's surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This day, September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
This Union goal was achieved by the fall of Vicksburg.
What is control of the Mississippi River?
200
This was a Confederate prison camp for Union prisoners of war.
What is Andersonville?
200
This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
He was a Confederate general who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
This 3 day battle in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the war and was Lee's greatest defeat.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
300
This was the Union's plan for destroying the Southern economy.
What is a naval blockade?
300
This was Lincoln's order to free the Confederate slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This series of battles took place between Grant and Lee in 1864 in Virginia.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
400
He was a Union general who led a famous march of total war and destruction through the Confederacy.
Who is William T. Sherman?
400
General Pememberton surrendered this city to Grant after a 47-day siege and ended the war in the west.
What is Vicksburg?
400
These are the two reasons the North won the Civil War.
What is more people and better industries for war supplies?
400
This new type of bullet introduced during the Civil War resulted in high numbers of amputations and deaths.
What is the minie ball?
400
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
He was the original Union commander in the East but was fired twice by Lincoln for being overly cautious.
Who is George McClellan?
500
This suicidal frontal assault on the Union line occured on Day 3 of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is Pickett's Charge?
500
This was Sherman's practice of destroying civilian and economic resources in addition to military resources.
What is total war?
500
This was the first and most famous African-American unit during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusettes regiment?
500
This was the approximate number of deaths in the Civil War.
What is 620,000?