Best known for his participation in the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, when his division was decimated during a massive frontal assault that became known as “Pickett's Charge.”

When did the Battle of Fort Sumpter take place?

This was the major subject splitting the south and the north in a moral debate?

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, making what race free?

This invention made the bullet spin faster, traveled further, and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. Able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds (more than 90%).

He earned his famous nickname "Stonewall" during the Battle of Bull Run for standing his ground "like a Stonewall"

When did the Battle of Antietam or the Battle of Sharpsburg take place?

This party made even more of a split between the north and the south. It was founded on March 20, 1854.

What act did some male slaves take in order to help the Union Army win the Civil War?

The USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia were examples of this new technology.

Which three future presidents fought in the Civil War?

What were the numbers of casualties lost at the Battle of Gettysburg by both the North and the South combined?

When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States. They felt that they had every right to leave. Starting with South Carolina, eleven states would eventually leave the United States and form a new country called the Confederate States of America. What was this called?

After the American Revolution, many northern states outlawed slavery. By 1840 most slaves who lived north of the Mason-Dixon Line were set free. Many people in the north felt that slavery should be illegal in all the United States. These people were called what?

This invention was obviously important for mobility, but they were also important for amputees to become useful in civilian society after the Civil War.

This Man was a Confederate cavalry commander during the American Civil War. He and his troops were responsible for the massacre of Black Union troops stationed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1864, and he was the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. When did this take place?

The election of whom as President sparked the Civil War to start?

In 1865, the 13th Amendment did what?

These new inventions were developed by the Confederates in the hopes of counteracting the Union's blockades of Southern ports. These inventions led to the creation of land mines and grenades that would be used in later wars.

This man was shot in the chest during a skirmish with Union troops near Lexington, Missouri in May 1865, a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.

How much were Union privates paid for their service during the Civil War?

To many nineteenth-century Americans, the expansion of slavery where caused a great deal of controversy?

What percent of the people in America were slaves during the Civil War?

On August 2, 1862, under the instruction of Jonathan Letterman, the Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac, General George B. McClellan issued General Orders 147 and created the United States Army's first full-time corps named...