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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The Battle of ___________ is considered the turning point of the war because the Confederate loss made it known they wouldn't get any support from England or France.	Gettysburg	86%
Who was the President of the Union?	Abraham Lincoln	79%
The President of the Confederate States of America was ________.	Jefferson Davis	79%
___________ was the general for the Confederacy.	Robert E. Lee	79%
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War took place at the Battle of ____________.	Antietam	71%
The Civil War officially ended when Lee and Grant signed a peace treaty in ___________, Virginia.	Appomattox Court House	71%
Confederate troops proved their relentlessness by continuing to fight back and winning the Battle of __________, the first major battle of the war.	Bull Run	71%
Many northerners enlisted in the Union army following the ____________, which changed the goal of the war to be about ending slavery.	Emancipation Proclamation	71%
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ___________.	Fort Sumter	71%
Due to his determination in the Battle of Bull Run, General Thomas Jackson became known as ___________ Jackson.	Stonewall	71%
___________, who was nicknamed Butcher and Unconditional Surrender, was the general for the Union.	Ulysses S. Grant	71%
____________, the largest city in the Confederate States of America, was burned to the ground during Sherman's March to the Sea.	Atlanta	64%
States that had slavery, but stayed with the Union, were known as __________.	Border States	64%
As the war dragged on, both sides resorted to using the _________, in an effort to make sure they had enough soldiers.	Draft	64%
The border state of __________ was important because it gave the Union control of the Ohio River.	Kentucky	64%
The border state of __________ was important because it was located near Richmond, and helped to protect Washington, D.C..	Maryland	64%
The capital of the Confederate States of America was _________.	Richmond	64%
Many slaves escaped towards the north and freedom using the _______, a network of secret hiding places and homes.	Underground Railroad	64%
The Union gained control of the Mississippi River following their victory at the Battle of ________________.	Vicksburg	64%
The border state of __________ was important because it was located close to Philadelphia, a major city in the Union.	Delaware	57%
According the ___________ decision by our Supreme Court, even free slaves couldn't be citizens.	Dred Scott	57%
The border state of __________ was important because it gave the Union access to the Mississippi River.	Missouri	57%
Maine was created as a free state, and Missouri a slave state in the ____________.	Missouri Compromise	57%
In an act of desperation at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Confederate soldiers marched straight to the center of the Union troops, a tactic that was nicknamed ______________.	Pickett's Charge	50%
To end the war quickly, the Union began to destroy the whole south, not just the soldiers, in a tactic known as __________.	Total War	50%
John Brown killed five pro-slavery people following the vote to allow slavery in Kansas, in an event known as ____________.	Bleeding Kansas	43%
Lincoln convinced northerners to continue supporting the war in the _______________, by claiming it was the job of the living to finish what the dead soldiers had started.	Gettysburg Address	43%
The ___________ added California as a free state, set up the Fugitive Slave Act, and outlawed slave trading in Washington D.C.	Compromise of 1850	29%
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for people in territories to vote on whether or not to allow slavery, which is known as ____________. Popular Sovereignty	Popular Sovereignty	21%