He was the chief commander of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
What was battlefield medicine like?
Primitive. Infection was a major problem.
100
Appomattox Courthouse
Where Lee surrendered?
200
This was a major advantage of the South.
What is effective military leadership?
200
Why did the battle of Shiloh stun people in the North and the South?
Casualty rates were appalling.
200
He was initially put in charge of Union troops.
Who is George McClellan?
200
This was the number one killer of soldiers in the Civil War.
What is diarrhea?
200
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
300
This is why the Civil War was the first modern war.
What is advances is war strategy and improvements in weaponry?
300
What is significant about Antietam?
It was the bloodiest one day battle of the war. After it, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
300
John Wilkes Booth
Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
300
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
The first female physician, she set up a training program for nurses.
300
April 9, 1865
The day Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant?
400
They made weapons more deadly because they increased accuracy at greater distances.
What is conoidal bullets?
400
Why is Gettysburg considered the turning point of the war?
Staggering casualties hurt the Confederate army and put them on the defensive for the remainder of the war.
400
Ford's Theater, April 9, 1865
Where and when Abraham Lincoln was shot?
400
Who was Clara Barton?
She left her job at a patent office to become a battlefield nurse. She also later helped found the American Red Cross?
400
The Emancipation Proclamation
This symbolically freed slaves in the rebellious southern states.
500
Railroads, telegraphs, ironclads
What are new technologies that effected the war?
500
What was Sherman's March to the Sea?
Sherman led his troops from Atlanta to Savannah, tearing up everything they could along the way. From Savannah, they turned north and marched to Raleigh, North Carolina.
500
The generals who had command of the Union army before they found a quality leader.
Who are McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade?
500
What was the most common surgical procedure performed during the civil war?
amputations
500
How did the EmancipationProclamation change the war?
It made the war about ending slavery, not just preservation of the Union.