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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry hoping to start a slave revolt	John Brown	80%
Abolitionist author known for "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	Harriet Beecher Stowe	73%
President of the United States, 1861-1865	Abraham Lincoln	67%
Southern Unionist who succeeded Lincoln as President and opposed federally guaranteed rights for Black Americans	Andrew Johnson	67%
Inventor of the cotton gin, which made growing cotton with slave labor profitable	Eli Whitney	67%
"Doughface" President who supported the pro-slavery ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford and failed to prepare the military for Civil War	James Buchanan	67%
Commanding General of the United States Army beginning in 1864	Ulysses S. Grant	67%
General who pioneered total war in his "March to the Sea"	William Tecumseh Sherman	67%
Hospital Nurse who founded the American Red Cross	Clara Barton	60%
Former slave who became a leading abolitionist and renowned orator	Frederick Douglass	60%
Confederate cavalry commander whose soldiers massacred surrendering soldiers at Fort Pillow and who became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war	Nathan Bedford Forrest	60%
Zealous and eccentric yet renowned Confederate general killed by friendly fire in 1863	Stonewall Jackson	60%
Union spy who claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and later founded a detective agency bearing his name	Allan Pinkerton	53%
Infamously cautious Union commanding general and candidate in the 1864 Presidential Election	George B. McClellan	53%
Confederate general remembered for his futile charge on the third day of Gettysburg that marked the high-water point of the Confederacy	George Pickett	53%
Confederate cavalry commander mortally wounded at the Battle of Yellow Tavern	J. E. B. Stuart	53%
Only President of the Confederacy	Jefferson Davis	53%
Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia who twice attempted invasions of the North	Robert E. Lee	53%
Lincoln's Secretary of State, who worked to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederacy and later negotiated the Alaska Purchase	William H. Seward	53%
Union General known for defeats at Fredericksburg and The Crater	Ambrose Burnside	47%
Union Admiral who said "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" at the Battle of Mobile Bay	David Farragut	47%
President who expanded America's territory to the Pacific at the cost of exacerbated sectional tensions	James K. Polk	47%
Founding father and Enlightenment thinker who advocated the abolition of slavery, as well as old-age pensions and a guaranteed income	Thomas Paine	47%
Abolitionist, sometimes known as Moses, who led the Raid on Combahee Ferry and freed around 800 slaves in the process	Harriet Tubman	40%
Supreme Court Chief Justice who issued the Dred Scott decision, ruling that the Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of African descent	Roger B. Taney	40%
Radical Abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator	William Lloyd Garrison	40%
Widely disliked Confederate officer often considered one of the worst generals in the civil War	Braxton Bragg	33%
Commander of Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg	George Meade	33%
Senator who championed the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850	Henry Clay	33%
Planter who ran for President in 1860 on the "Constitutional Union" ticket, advocating preservation of the Union and continued slavery	John Bell	33%
Ardent supporter of slavery prior to the civil war and key figure in the Nullification Crisis	John C. Calhoun	33%
Union General defeated at Chancellorsville whose last name and reputation gave rise to a common folk etymology	Joseph Hooker	33%
Confederate general of the Valley campaigns who later played a key role in developing the "Lost Cause"	Jubal Early	33%
Enslaved man who led a violent slave rebellion in the 1830s	Nat Turner	33%
Northern Democrat nominee for President in the 1860 election; major proponent of popular sovereignty	Stephen A. Douglas	33%
Architect of the Anaconda Plan and onetime Whig candidate for President of the United States	Winfield Scott	33%
Union General known for his command of New Orleans; later a radical Republican	Benjamin Butler	27%
Republican senator nearly killed by Representative Preston Brooks after he delivered an anti-slavery speech which insulted Brooks' first cousin	Charles Sumner	27%
Southern Unionist who saved the Union army from total defeat at Chickamauga and defeated John Bell Hood at the Battle of Nashville; often considered one of the finest Union generals	George Henry Thomas	27%
Commander of the Siege of Corinth and General in Chief of the Armies of the United States from 1862 to 1864	Henry Halleck	27%
General defeated at the First Battle of Bull Run	Irvin McDowell	27%
Confederate General who disagreed with Lee at Gettysburg and later supported Reconstruction	James Longstreet	27%
General from Maine known for his performance at Gettysburg	Joshua Chamberlain	27%
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation who was the last Confederate general to surrender	Stand Watie	27%
Radical Republican representative who was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the Civil War and a prominent opponent of Andrew Johnson afterwards	Thaddeus Stevens	27%
Confederate General killed at Shiloh; Lee saw his death as "the turning point of our fate"	Albert Sidney Johnston	20%
Confederate Vice President, earlier a leading Southern Whig	Alexander H. Stephens	20%
Confederate commander killed at the Third Battle of Petersburg	A. P. Hill	20%
"Mad Hatter" who killed the man who killed Lincoln	Boston Corbett	20%
Leading politician known for his oratory who strongly opposed nullification but emphasized good relations with the South over anti-slavery	Daniel Webster	20%
Enforced the Anaconda Plan and massively expanded the U.S. Navy; known as "Father Neptune"	Gideon Welles	20%
Newspaper editor who helped found the Republican Party and urged Lincoln to commit to ending slavery	Horace Greeley	20%
Pro-Confederate guerilla who became the leader of a legendary gang of outlaws after the war's end	Jesse James	20%
Southern Democrat nominee for President in the 1860 election, later a confederate officer and politician	John C. Breckinridge	20%
Explorer, General, and Politician who issued an emancipation edict in 1861	John C. Frémont	20%
Louisianan Leader of the Attack on Fort Sumter and postbellum advocate of civil rights	P. G. T. Beauregard	20%
Inventor and Industrialist from Connecticut who sold arms to both the Union and Confederacy	Samuel Colt	20%
Union general known for his role in the victory at Gettysburg and participation in Presidential Reconstruction	Winfield Scott Hancock	20%
Music teacher who hated horses, but became a renowned cavalry commander during the Vicksburg Campaign	Benjamin Grierson	13%
Minister and abolitionist murdered by a pro-slavery mob	Elijah Lovejoy	13%
Swiss-born Confederate officer and commandant of Andersonville Prison who became one of two men executed for war crimes during the Civil War	Henry Wirz	13%
Confederate general with a reputation for being overly rash and consequently responsible for higher-than-necessary losses	John Bell Hood	13%
Confederate who surrendered Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863	John C. Pemberton	13%
Swedish-born inventor who designed the USS Monitor	John Ericsson	13%
Confederate Secretary of State who pushed for British Recognition of the Confederacy, as well as the first Jewish senator who did not renounce his faith.	Judah P. Benjamin	13%
Union General who used scorched-earth tactics in the Shenandoah Valley	Philip Sheridan	13%
Abolitionist officer who led the 54th Massachusetts and demanded equal treatment for Black soldiers	Robert Gould Shaw	13%
Unusually named Confederate General killed at the Battle of Franklin	States Rights Gist	13%
Prussian Communist of noble birth who revoked his titles and fought for the Union	August Willich	7%
Female Confederate spy known as the "Cleopatra of the Secession"	Belle Boyd	7%
Proslavery author of "The Planter's Northern Bride"	Caroline Lee Hentz	7%
Pro-Slavery northerner and supporter of a "Northwestern Confederacy"; died after accidentally shooting himself to prove the victim in a murder case could have accidentally shot himself	Clement Vallandigham	7%
Commander at the capture of New Orleans depicted in "The Peacemakers"	David Dixon Porter	7%
Early Fire-Eater said to have fired the first shot of the Civil War, and who committed suicide upon hearing the news of Confederate Surrender	Edmund Ruffin	7%
Leading proslavery advocate notable for advocating slavery which crossed racial boundaries	George Fitzhugh	7%
Senator known for proposing that the U.S. government enshrine slavery into the Constitution in order to defuse secession	John J. Crittenden	7%
Highest-ranking U.S. Army Officer to join the Confederacy and only Confederate general to command both the Western and Eastern theaters	Joseph E. Johnston	7%
Episcopal bishop and slaveowner who fought for the Confederacy	Leonidas Polk	7%
First female surgeon in the U.S. army and only female recipient of the Medal of Honor	Mary Edwards Walker	7%
Peddler and organizer of the "Richmond bread riot"	Mary Jackson	7%
General who stopped Missouri from seceding despite his death early in the conflict	Nathaniel Lyon	7%
Quaker woman who played a crucial role in the defeat of Jubal Early	Rebecca Wright Bonsal	7%
Man who escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and sailing to freedom; later a U.S. Representative	Robert Smalls	7%
Founder and first commander of the Iron Brigade	Rufus King	7%
Politician who prophesized that the Missouri Compromise would lead to civil war	Thomas Jefferson	7%
British Chancellor of the Exchequer who advocated supporting the Confederacy	William Ewart Gladstone	7%
Confederate guerilla leader who massacred unarmed civilians in Lawrence, Kansas	William Quantrill	7%
Union commander of the Tullahoma campaign, later losing the Battle of Chickamauga	William Rosecrans	7%
Man whose houses were involved in both the Battle of First Bull Run and the Battle of Appomattox Court House	Wilmer McLean	7%
Quaker and early opponent of slavery who befriended Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Lay	0%
Radical Republican who would have become acting president had Andrew Johnson been impeached	Benjamin Wade	0%
American Diplomat who successfully kept Britain neutral throughout the Civil War	Charles Francis Adams	0%
Southern-sympathetic Mayor of New York City who suggested declaring independence to continue trade with the south	Fernando Wood	0%
Clergyman who sent rifles to abolitionists fighting in Kansas, purchased slaves from captivity, and encouraged Europe to support the Union	Henry Ward Beecher	0%
Civil engineer who built a working train bridge in under 2 weeks with "cornstalks and beanpoles"	Herman Haupt	0%
Southerner who made an economic case for abolitionism	Hinton Helper	0%
Radical abolitionist who led the Sacking of Osceola in 1861	James Montgomery	0%
Colonial Judge and early critic of slavery	Samuel Sewall	0%
Unionist Governor of Maryland who kept the state from seceding	Thomas Holliday Hicks	0%
Unitarian Minister whose oration was instrumental in ensuring California remained loyal to the Union	Thomas Starr King	0%