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Speech given by Lincoln to honor the many dead n the battle of Gettysburg and an enduring statement of US values and goals.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
4 states that bordered Southern states that allowed slavery but did not join the Confederacy.
What are the border states?
100
Freed all enslaved people living in the states of the rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Made western land available at low cost to those who would farm the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
When prices of common items soar.
What is inflation?
200
Military leader from Virginia who left the Union army to command the southern army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
All black regiment known for its bravery.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
200
Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
200
Assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Prevents a person from being held in jail without being charged for a specific crime.
What is habeas corpus?
300
Site in Pennsylvania of a 3 day bloody battle between the Confederacy and the Union.
What is Gettysburg?
300
Confederate military hero who refused to yield to the Union army at Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
Successful Union general who was victorious at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Amends the Constitution to outlaw slavery in the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Northern Democrats who opposed the war.
What are Copperheads?
400
Union military plan for defeating the South by dividing the Confederacy in two.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
Mandated that black soldiers be accepted into the military.
What is the Militia Act?
400
Photographer who documented the horrors of war with his pictures of Civil War battles.
Who is Mathew Brady?
400
Gained approval for nursing Civil War soldiers as part of the official military effort and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Grant's policy of fighting which involved striking civilian as well as military targets.
What is total war?
500
Southern city on the Mississippi River essential for the Union to control.
What is Vicksburg?
500
Leader of the Union army who was fired by Lincoln.
Who is McClellan?
500
Union general who practiced total war as he marched through and conquered Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
Drafting men to fight in a war.
What is conscription?
500
Leader of the South's bloody assault on the Union-held Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg.
Who is George Pickett?