| A | B |
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| Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the civil war? |
| "Honest Abe" | Nickname given to Abraham Lincoln that tells about his character? |
| Robert E. Lee | This man was the major military leader of the Southern forces? |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Northern general who received the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse? |
| John Wilkes Booth | Man who assassinated President Lincoln? |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the South after the war were called? |
| Scalawags | Southerns who had not taken part in the war and who tried to help the North during Reconstruction? |
| Radicals | Group of Republicans that felt the South should be punished for the Civil War? |
| Andrew Johnson | This man was Lincoln's vice-president and became president when he died? |
| George B. McClellan | After the first Battle of Bull Run, Lincoln made this man commander of the Union armies? |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Who was Robert E. Lee's best general? |
| Stonewall | What nickname was given Thomas Jackson at the first Battle of Bull Run? |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Northern general who was the one most responsible for taking the Mississippi River? |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | This Northern general made a "march to the sea"? |
| John Ericsson | Designed the U.S.S. Monitor? |
| J. E. B. Stuart | Led the cavalry forces of the Confederacy? |
| George E. Pickett | The Southern general who led a charge at the center of the Union line at Gettysburg? |
| David G. Farragut | This Northern general captured New Orleans? |
| George B. McClellan | This man ran against Lincoln in 1864 for the presidency? |
| Edwin Stanton | This man was secretary of war under Lincoln. Andrew Johnson got into trouble when he tried to remove him from office? |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | All federal troops were removed from the South after this man became president? |
| Illinois | Abraham Lincoln called this state home? |
| Washington, D.C. | Capital of the Union? |
| Atlanta | This city, which was the railroad center of Georgia, was destroyed by Sherman's troops? |
| Ford's | This was the theater in which Lincoln was assassinated? |
| Gettysburg | Lincoln gave a famous speech when he dedicated a cemetery here? |
| Springfield | This is the capital of Illinois? |
| Bull Run | The first major battle of the Civil War was fought here? |
| Antietam | In 1862 Lee started to invade the North. The Confederate troops were stopped in this Maryland city? |
| Gettysburg | The Confederate army invaded Pennsylvania but was stopped in this battle? |
| Tennessee | Andrew Johnson came from this state? |
| West Virginia | This area refused to secede with Virginia and eventually became a separate state? |
| England | The South thought this European nation would help them win against the North? |
| Savannah | Sherman presented the capturing of this town to Lincoln as a Christmas present? |
| House of Representatives | During the Mexican War Lincoln served in this law-making body? |
| Arlington, Virginia | Robert E. Lee's home was located here? |
| Chancellorsville | "Stonewall" Jackson was shot during this battle? |
| Tennessee | This was the first Southern state to reenter the Union by agreeing to the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| Republican | Lincoln ran for the presidency representing this political party? |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The executive order that freed the slaves was called ? |
| Lawyer | The occupation of Lincoln before he became president? |
| Thirteenth | This amendment freed the slaves? |
| Blockade Runners | Fast ships that dodged the Union warships? |
| Merrimac or Virginia | Southern ironclad ship was called? |
| Fourteenth | This amendment made Negroes citizens? |
| Klu Klux Klan | When Southerners found they could not vote or hold office, they joined this secret organization which gave them power through terror? |
| Fifteenth | This amendment gave Negroes the right to vote? |
| Monitor | The Northern ironclad ship was called? |
| Ten Percent Plan | Lincoln's plan that would make it easy for the Southern states to be readmitted to the Union? |
| Fourteenth | This amendment said that anyone who had fought against the Union could not hold public office or vote? |
| Secession | When a state leaves the Union, it is called? |
| Border States | Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware were called this during the Civil War? |
| Blockade | Closing of ports so supplies could not get in or out? |
| Reconstruction | The process of restoring normal relations between the states following the war? |
| Impeachment | An attempt to remove the president from office? |
| Anaconda | The name of the Union plan for strangling the South? |
| Siege | Vicksburg was surrounded and starved into surrender. What is this long waiting war called? |
| Solid South | Nickname given to the Southern states because they tend to vote for the Democratic party? |
| Mississippi | Vicksburg is located on this river? |
| Gulf of Mexico | The Mississippi River empties into this body of water? |
| Atlantic Ocean | Savannah is a port on this large body of water? |
| Ohio | Both the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers are tributaries to this river? |
| Potomac | Washington, D.C. is located on this river? |
| Mississippi | If the Union could control this river, they would cut the Confederacy in half? |
| Hampton Roads | The famous battle of the ironclads took place in this harbor? |
| Bull Run | Manassas Junction was located along this creek? |
| Cumberland | Fort Donelson was located on this river? |
| Pontchartrain | New Orleans is located on this lake? |
