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Civil War Bingo
1. What is the name of the slave who led the largest slave rebellion killing 60 whites in Southhampton
County, Virginia?
2. Who was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator?
3. What is the name of the former slave who escaped to freedom and became a famous abolitionist,
public speaker, and started his own newspaper, The North Star?
4. Who were the Southern sisters who were abolitionists and the daughters of a slave owner and
encouraged women to fight slavery as their Christian duty?
5. What is the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel that inspired the rise of abolitionism?
6. What is the name of the compromise that admitted California as a free state, banned the slave trade in
Washington, D.C., and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act?
7. What is the name of the bill by Stephen Douglas that divided the Nebraska territory into two states
and allowed both states to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty?
8. Who was the slave that sued for his freedom because he lived several years in a free state?
9. Who was the abolitionist that led an attack on a federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, hoping to
start a slave uprising?
10. Who won the presidential election of 1860?
11. Which southern state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860? Where did the Civil War begin?
12. What is the name of the Union’s three-part strategy to win the war?
13. Who did Lincoln make general of the Union army because of his successes in the West, especially at
Vicksburg?
14. Who was the commander of Confederate forces?
15. Who was the Confederate general who earned his nickname at Bull Run and was killed at
Chancellorsville by his own troops?
16. Who was the Union officer who led the capture of Atlanta and the March to the Sea through Georgia?
17. Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
18. What is the name of the first major battle of the Civil War and was a Confederate victory?
19. What is the name of the battle that resulted in a tie, but Lee was forced to retreat and if McClellan
had followed him the Union may have won the war then?
20. What is the name of the 3-day battle in Pennsylvania where 100,000 men died before the Union
finally won?
21. Which battle allowed the Union to take control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in
two?
22. What southern city did Sherman and his troops burn and capture?
23. What is the name of the declaration by Lincoln freeing slaves in Confederate states?
24. What does Lincoln suspend so that Confederate supporters can be arrested without a trial?
25. What is the name of the speech Lincoln gives that honors the dead and asked Americans to rededicate
themselves to preserving the Union?
26. Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
27. Who assassinated President Lincoln?
28. What were the new ships called that replaced wooden battle ships?
29. What did the Union have more of that allowed them to transport things faster than the Confederacy?