CIVIL WAR JEOPARDY
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VOCAB
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BATTLES
CIVL
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MILITARY
Final Jeopardy
$100 Question
People of the Civil War
President of the United States
during the Civil War
$100 Answer
People of the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
$200 Question
People of the Civil War
Nurse who helped take care of
the wounded during the Civil
War and later started the
American Red Cross
$200 Answer
People of the Civil War
Who was Clara Barton?
$300 Question
People of the Civil War
President of the Confederate
States of America during the
Civil War
$300 Answer
People of the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
$400 Question
People of the Civil War
The name given to Northern
democrats who opposed the
Civil War
$400 Answer
People of the Civil War
Who are copperheads?
$500 Question
People of the Civil War
Union General in charge of
the “March to the Sea” to
destroy the South’s will to
fight
$500 Answer
People of the Civil War
Who is William Tecumseh
Sherman?
$100 Question
Civil War Vocabulary
Ships converted from
wooden ships to fighting
ships by adding a coat of
steel or iron
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Civil War Vocabulary
What are Ironclads?
$200 Question
Civil War Vocabulary
A change to the U.S.
Constitution that freed ALL
African Americans.
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Civil War Vocabulary
What is the 13th
Amendment?
$300 Question
Civil War Vocabulary
Signed by Lincoln to help the war
effort, in reality frees no slaves
but is a symbolic statement
$300 Answer
Civil War Vocabulary
What is the The
Emancipation
Proclamation?
$400 Question
Civil War Vocabulary
A term that means people
decide on an issue such as to
vote on whether a territory
allows slavery or prohibits
slavery.
$400 Answer
Civil War Vocabulary
What is popular sovereignty?
$500 Question
Civil War Vocabulary
These states practiced
slavery at the beginning of
the Civil War, but decided to
stay with the Union.
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Civil War Vocabulary
What are border states
$100 Question
Civil War Military Terms
The number one killer in the
Civil War
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Civil War Military Terms
What is disease?
$200 Question
Civil War Military Terms
Preventing any shipping from
getting in or out of an area
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Civil War Military Terms
What is a blockade?
$300 Question
Civil War Military Terms
Nickname of the Union
strategy to prevent all trade
from getting in or out of the
South
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Civil War Military Terms
What is the
Anaconda Plan?
$400 Question
Civil War Military Terms
A type of hollowed out bullet
with grooves on the side to allow
it to spiral through the air
$400 Answer
Civil War Military Terms
What is a minie ball?
$500 Question
Civil War Military Terms
Order called by a Southern
commander during the Battle at
Gettysburg that results in many
Confederate deaths as they cross
a wheat field and are mowed
down by Union fire
$500 Answer
Civil War Military Terms
What is Pickett’s Charge?
$100 Question
Battles of the Civil War
The first major battle of the Civil
War, a Confederate victory,
shocks the Union, many
spectators come from nearby
Washington D.C. to watch the
battle
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Battles of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
$200 Question
Battles of the Civil War
This battle gives the Union
complete control of the
Mississippi River
$200 Answer
Battles of the Civil War
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
$300 Question
Battles of the Civil War
This Union victory in
Pennsylvania ended the
Confederate hopes of victory in
the North, many died, President
Lincoln speaks here later
$300 Answer
Battles of the Civil War
What is the Battle of
Gettysburg?
$400 Question
Battles of the Civil War
This Union victory allows
Lincoln to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation
although this battle is the
bloodiest battle in ONE day.
$400 Answer
Battles of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Antietam?
$500 Question
Battles of the Civil War
This battle lasts over three days
and more soldiers die in this
battle than any others in
American History!
$500 Answer
Battles of the Civil War
What is the Battle of
Gettysburg?
$100 Question
Civil War Etc.
This general sided with his home
state Virginia and became the
best general of the Confederacy
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Civil War Etc.
Who is Robert E Lee?
$200 Question
Civil War Etc.
Site of the signing of the
surrender papers to officially end
the Civil War
$200 Answer
Civil War Etc.
What is Appomattox Court
House?
$300 Question
Civil War Etc.
An increase in the cost of goods
and a decrease in the value of
money
$300 Answer
Civil War Etc.
What is Inflation.
$400 Question
Civil War Etc.
Appointed the lead Union
general after winning major
battles in the west, finished the
war as the general in charge of
the Union army
$400 Answer
Civil War Etc.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
$500 Question
Civil War Etc.
The first all African American
fighting regiment in the Union
army during the Civil War
$500 Answer
Civil War Etc.
Who are the Massachusetts
54th?
Final Jeopardy
In what year did the Civil War
end?
Final Jeopardy Answer
What is 1865?