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What is Gettysburg
A battle that included Cemenary Bridge
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Who is McClellan
The Union general known as "Virginia Creeper"
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What is the Civil Wars end
1865
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Who is the President of the Union
Lincoln
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What is rifling
Grooves in a gun that make it more accurate
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What is Ironclads
The battle between Monitor and Merrimack
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Who is Burnside
Union general who made a style of hair famous
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What is the number of deaths in the Civil War
620,000
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Who is the president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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What are the border states
Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri
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What is Shiloh
Bloody affair because soldiers don't know how to fight yet
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Who is Pickett
He failed a charge during Gettysburg
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When was the surrender at the Appomattox courthouse
April 9, 1865
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Who is Alexander Stevens
The first and only Vice President of the Confederate States of America
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What is an Ironclad
Steam propelled warship protected by amour plates
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What is Peninsular Campaign
McClellan wants to capture Confederate capital, Richmond
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Who is Nathan Bedford
Confederate commander who was expert of the "lightning raid"
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What is the number of causalities as Shiloh
23,000 causalities
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Who is William Lloyd Garrison
Journalist and reformer that cast slavery as a national sin
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What is the document that Lincoln used in the Civil War to end slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
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What is Antietam or Sharpsburg
Gave Lincoln opportunity to announce Emancipation Proclamation
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Who is Farragut
Captured New Orleans and mouth of Mississippi
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When was the battle of Ironclads
March 8-9, 1862
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Who is Frederick Douglass
Leading spokesman of the abolitionist movement and a journalist
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Who are Democrats that opposed Lincoln in the 1864 election
Copperheads
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