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100
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Lincoln gives executive order after the north's victory in the Battle of Antietam. The purpose of this order was to state that all slaves in Confederate States were to be set free.
100
Which Civil War General did President Abraham Lincoln fire multiple times during the war?
Union General MacLelland
100
On April 6, 1862, Confederate troops surprise Union General Ulysses S. Grant and his 40,000 men by the Tennessee River. Grant counterattacks the next day, eventually earning a Union victory. Name this battle.
Battle of Shiloh
100
At which battle did the Confederates lose an important leader?
At Chancellorsville, the Confederates lost General Stonewall Jackson.
100
A combination of new, highly effective weapons and out-modeled tactics made the Civil War the bloodiest conflict in American history. A nation of 32,000,000 people lost 714,245 mend killed and wounded. This was almost exactly the same number lost in World War II when the nation was larger. The weapon that produced many of these casualties was:
What is the new rifle musket.
200
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
An executive order given by President Lincoln that stated all slaves in the rebellious states would be set free.
200
This individual served in the Mexican-American War in 1842, rejoined the United States Army for the Civil War and won some key victories for the Union Army. Eventually this man rises in the ranks to be the supreme commander by the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
200
She volunteers to help soldiers caught in a riot in Baltimore, Maryland. She is best remembered for carrying first aid supplies and takes them to battlefields. She helps soldiers after the battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam, and Fort Wagner. Name this person.
Clara Barton
200
What years did the Civil War begin and end?
1861-1865
200
Of a reported 250,000 injured soldiers treated in Union hospitals during the war, only 922 were reported to have been injured by what was referred to as an “edged weapon.” What is the sharp-edged on the end of a musket?
Bayonet
300
Addressing Congress, Lincoln said, "Then, thereby, the assailants of the Government, began the conflict of arms." He was referring to Confederate forces firing on which fort in 1861?
Sumter
300
Born a slave in Maryland and tries to escape several times before finally making his way to freedom in 1838. This individual writes a best-selling autobiography. Name this person.
Frederick Douglass
300
How many major battles were there in the Civil War?
50
300
President Lincoln chose to replace MacLelland with which General?
Ambrose E. Burnside
300
What is the plan that was designed to suck the life out of the south?
Anaconda Plan
400
What was the FIRST state to succeed from the Union?
South Carolina
400
Who wrote a diary that gave historians a great idea of what life was like on the home front?
Mary Boykin Chestnut
400
During this battle, there were 36 casualties every two minutes for 12 hours. It was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war. Which battle is this?
Antietam
400
The pull out or withdraw from;
What is sucede
400
Why did the Union want control over the Mississippi River? And, how did Union commander David Farragut play a role in 1862?
The Union wanted to gain control over the Mississippi River so that they could control trade and supplies.This was part of the Anaconda Plan, which was designed to suck the life out of the south so that the south would have no will to continue fighting. David Farragut attacked the two forts from the Gulf of Mexico and helped the Union take control of New Orleans.
500
How many total southern states succeeded from the Union?
11 southern states succeeded from the Union
500
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
500
What battle caused the most casualties in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
500
A region's power to rule itself and make its own laws.
What is popular sovereignty
500
William Tecumseh Sherman in 1864 commanded the Union armies of the West in the decisive drive from Chattanooga to Atlanta and the famous “march to the sea” across Georgia. Sherman’s troops carried the war to the Southern home front and blazed a wide path of destruction that delivered the death blow to the Confederacy’s will and ability to fight. He invented the battle strategy:
Total War