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Number 1. The Name of the theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated
Correct Answer: Fords
Number 2. Lincoln's Vice-President; Assumed the role of President after Lincoln's assassination
Correct Answer: Andrew Johnson
Number 3. Democrats who were openly against the Lincoln administration, using physical and political attacks against Lincoln, the draft, and emancipation
Correct Answer: Copperheads
Number 4. The type of Democrats that were not supportive of Lincoln, but took no radical action against him
Correct Answer: Peace
Number 5. The type of Democrat that put patriotism and the war effort above party loyalty
Correct Answer: War
Number 6. The River that the Union finally controlled in 1863 that cut the Confederacy into two parts
Correct Answer: Mississippi
Number 7. Union General who won in the western theatre and was appointed to General-in-Chief of the entire Union army
Correct Answer: Grant
Number 8. Union General who task was to bring "total war" to the South; famous for his "March to the Sea"
Correct Answer: Sherman
Number 9. The nickname given to General Grant after the Spring of 1864
Correct Answer: Butcher
Number 10. Campaign that occurred in May 1864; area was below the old battlefields of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg; Heavily wooded terrain caused a fire and heavy casualties for both sides
Correct Answer: Wilderness
Number 11. Union frontal assault against the entrenched Confederates outside Virginia; the Confederates lost fewer than 1500 and the Union troops were quite severe, losing 7,000 in less than an hour
Correct Answer: Cold Harbor
Number 12. The fall of this city helped to get President Lincoln reelected; after the city was taken Sherman is noted for burning most of it
Correct Answer: Atlanta
Number 13. Sherman's March to the Sea ended with this city; he offered it to President Lincoln as a Christmas present
Correct Answer: Savannah
Number 14. Admiral Farragut forced his way into (blank) Bay, Alabama. Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines surrendered in August 1864
Correct Answer: Mobile
Number 15. The name of the Virginia town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in April 1865
Correct Answer: Appomattox Courthouse
Number 16. The name of the actor that shot President Lincoln (just fill in his last name)
Correct Answer: Booth
Number 17. Union General who fought Lieutenant General Jubal Early's troops in the Shenandoah Valley
Correct Answer: Sheridan
Number 18. General Grant tried to take this city that lay south of Richmond; Heavy fighting occurred in June 1864, but it would take a siege of the city to capture it; the siege would last almost a year
Correct Answer: Petersburg
Number 19. Famous Confederate prison of war camp held in Georgia
Correct Answer: Andersonville
Number 20. The main killer at the prison of war camp was (blank).
Correct Answer: Disease