Battles
Law
Innovations/Strategy
People
Numbers
100
The deadliest day in US history
What was the battle of Antietam?
100
Executive Order declaring all people held as slaves in rebel states to be freed
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This innovation fortified ships from cannon attacks.
What are ironclad warships?
100
His election caused the South to secede.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The years 1861-1865
What years were the US Civil War?
200
The last battle of the Civil War
What was Appomattox?
200
Abolishes the institution of slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
200
The North had a distinct advantage as it had 20,000 miles of track and the South only 9000.
What are the railroads?
200
Union general and two term US president.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
200
4 million out of the 32 million Americans
How many people were enslaved?
300
The first battle of the Civil War
What was Bull Run or Manassas?
300
Establishes equality under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
300
Invented by Samuel Morse, there were 15,000 miles of cable laid for military purposes, it also allowed the media to report on the war in a timely fashion.
What is the telegraph?
300
The Confederacy's most famous general.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
300
Approximately 750,000 or 2% of the population
How many died in the Civil War?
400
South Carolina claims this US fort as its own
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
400
Extends the franchise to black men.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
Both sides used hot air balloons for this purpose.
What is aerial reconnaissance?
400
Who was Frederick Douglass?
400
It only lasted about about 10-11 years.
What is the Reconstruction?
500
Often called the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This landmark case appropriated the 14th amendment to elevate States' rights thereby helping to undermine Reconstruction
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)?
500
The total naval blockade of the South.
What was the Anaconda Strategy?
500
The president who succeeded Lincoln.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
500
The eleven states of the Confederacy.
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee & North Carolina?