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A plan
What is a strategy?
100
The union nurse who organized the American Red Cross after the Civil War?
Who is Clara Barton?
100
Where the first shot of the Civil War took place.
Where was Fort Sumter?
100
The Confederate capital was located in this city and state.
Where is Richmond, Virginia?
100
He was president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
The plan by the Union to divide the Confederacy and cut off supplies.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
200
The Confederate general who fought the Union armies at the battles of Antietam, Seven Days, Gettysburg, and Petersburg.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
200
This Confederacy victory was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
200
Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky and Delaware were considered this part of the Union.
What were border states?
200
This news helped President Lincoln win the election of 1864.
What were Union victories?
300
Name given to a group of Democrats who openly supported the South.
Who were the Copperheads?
300
A former slave, he demanded that African Americans in the North be allowed to fight in the war.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
The turning point of the Civil War took place outside this small Pennsylvania town in July, 1863.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Village where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in 1865.
Where was Appomattox Court House?
300
Three technological advances used in the Civil War.
What were telegraphs, hot-air balloons, railroads, Springfield rifles, Minie balls, trench warfare, and ironclad warships?
400
The right of a citizen to ask a court to decide if a prisoner is being held lawfully.
What is habeas corpus?
400
His war strategy was different from those of previous Union generals because he believed in attacking quickly and always moving forward.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
400
On September 17, 1862, the bloodiest day of the Civil War took place at this battle.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
400
Site of General Sherman's famous "march to the sea."
Where is Georgia?
400
Four advantages the North had at the beginning of the Civil War.
What were a larger population, 90% of the country's manufacturing capacity, more railroads, more money, a larger army and navy, a well-organized government, and a strong leader in President Lincoln.
500
A war against civilians and resources as well as against armies.
What is total war?
500
This Union general won victories at Fort Henry, Shiloh, Vicksburg, the Wilderness Campaign, and Petersburg.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Many people who were not soldiers came to witness this battle in July 1861.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
500
The Union wanted to capture this river in order to divide the Confederacy in two.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
Three advantages the South had at the beginning of the Civil War.
What were fighting a defensive war, better military officers, King Cotton, knowledge of geography, knowledge of guns and horses, and shorter supply routes?