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Who is General George G. Meade?
The Union general in charge for the Battle of Gettysburg.
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What are contrabands?
slaves that escaped to the Union army's lines
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What is 1863?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in this year
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What is Kentucky,, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia?
the 5 "border" states
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What is a hot air balloon?
Spies used them to get above the trees to scope enemy lines
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Who is General McClellan?
the Union general who was known as "The Virginia Creeper" for his reluctance to actually move and use his army
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What are greenbacks?
paper money the United States began to issue during the Civil War
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What is 4 years?
The Civil War lasted this long
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What is Charleston, SC?
The city where Fort Sumter was located
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What is a submarine?
The new kind of water machine that was made for the Civil war
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Who is Winfield Scott?
the head of the miniscule United States Army at the start of the war. He was a hero of the Mexican War but by the start of the Civil War, was "too fat to even get on a horse."
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What are Copperheads?
Democrats who opposed Lincoln in the 1864 election
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What is $150 million?
The amount of money made legal tender through the Legal Tender Act of 1862
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What is Just north of Manassas, Virginia?
Where the First Battle of Bull Run was fought
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What is rifling?
the new kind of barrel that resulted in more accurate shooting due to spinning the bullet
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Who is General Burnside?
Union general that was famous for his facial hair
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What is Fort Sumter?
a fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, where the Union garrison came under siege by Confederate forces in an attack on April 12, 1861, beginning the Civil War
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What is 190,000?
The number of African American Union soldiers by the end of the Civil War
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What is Washington DC and Richmond?
The two national capitols during the Civil War
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What is a telegraph?
New form of long distance communication
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Who is Robert E Lee?
an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician
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What is habeas corpus?
the right of those arrested to be brought before a judge or court to determine whether there is cause to hold the prisoner
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What is 100,000 - 110,000 soldiers?
The size of Grant's army at the Battle of Cold Harbor
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What is the Appomattox Court House?
Where the surrender of the South took place
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What is "Repeaters"?
the new name of guns that were able to shoot more than one shot before reloading (only available to the North)
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