Civil War Cards

Question 1

Appomattox courthouse

Answer 1

The courthouse that Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant meet for the south to surrender to the north in 1865

Question 2

Clara Burton

Answer 2

A nurse in the civil war, founder of the Red Cross.

Question 3

Blue and the Grey

Answer 3

The colors of the Union(Blue) and the confederacy(grey)

Question 4

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 4

The assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln, was an actor.

Question 5

John Brown

Answer 5

Tried to get the slaves to rebel, massacre, hung at Harper’s ferry.

Question 6

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 6

First battle of the civil war, won by confederates.

Question 7

Battle of Chanslersville

Answer 7

Battle where Stonewall Jackson died by his own soldiers on accident. Confederate won.

Question 8

Civil War

Answer 8

American civil war from 1861-1865.

Question 9

Confederacy

Answer 9

The south

Question 10

Confederate

Answer 10

A person who is in the confederacy

Question 11

Crimean War

Answer 11

Fought between Britain, Russia, France, Turkey

Question 12

Damn the torpedos

Answer 12

Said by David Farragut in the battle of mobile bay.

Question 13

Jefferson Davis

Answer 13

Leader of confederacy

Question 14

Benjamin Disraeli

Answer 14

British prime minister

Question 15

Stephan A Douglas

Answer 15

Debated against Lincoln

Question 16

Dred Scott decision

Answer 16

Court battle where it was decided that black people weren’t citizens

Question 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 17

Made it so slavery was illegal in the confederate states.

Question 18

David Farragut

Answer 18

Navy admiral, Damn the torpedos,

Question 19

Gettysburg Address

Answer 19

Gave by Lincoln at Gettysburg, to dedicate the soldiers cemetery

Question 20

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 20

Won by union, critical turning point for union.

Question 21

William Ewart Gladstone

Answer 21

British prime minister

Question 22

Government by the people for the people

Answer 22

In the constitution, people control government

Question 23

Ulysses S. grant

Answer 23

Leader of Union army

Question 24

Harpers ferry

Answer 24

Robert E Lee, battle won by confederate forces

Question 25

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 25

General of confederate army

Question 26

Robert E. Lee

Answer 26

Leader of confederate army

Question 27

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 27

U.S president during civil war, used to be a lawyer

Question 28

Lincoln’s second inaugural address

Answer 28

Lincoln’s speech to convince people to vote for him

Question 29

Mason-Dixon Line

Answer 29

Line that separated confederate and union.

Question 30

Florence nightingale

Answer 30

Nurse in the Crimean war, good techniques

Question 31

Republican Party

Answer 31

Created to oppose slavery

Question 32

Succession

Answer 32

The withdrawal of the confederate states from the u.s

Question 33

William Sherman

Answer 33

Union general, war is hell, Sherman’s march to the sea

Question 34

Sherman’s march to the sea

Answer 34

Union won Georgia

Question 35

Elizabeth cady Stanton

Answer 35

Women’s rights and author

Question 36

Fort Sumter

Answer 36

First occurrence before the civil war

Question 37

Union

Answer 37

North

Question 38

War is hell

Answer 38

Saying by William Sherman