1. Bluff! A Game and Study Guide All In One!

2. Rules In turn, each team will be asked a question. Team members who know the answer will stand up. The other team will select ONE person standing up to answer the question. If that person gives a correct answer, the team will receive as many points as there are people standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many points will be subtracted.

3. Rules Continued Each team will select one scorekeeper. If no one from the team stands up, the other team will be awarded 5 points. If you do not stand up, or if you would not have if it was your team’s turn, then write the question and answer down to create your own study guide.

4. Question #1 What event in Harpers Ferry deepened the divisions between the North and the South before the Civil War?

5. Answer #1 John Brown’s raid.

6. Question #2 What is the term for the withdrawal of a state from the Union?

7. Answer #2 Secession.

8. Question #3 What was the first state to secede from the Union?

9. Answer #3 South Carolina

10. Question #4 Name 2 Union AND 2 Confederate military leaders.

11. Answer #4 Union - General Ulysses S. Grant, General George McClellan, General William Sherman, General Phil Sheridan, General George Meade, General Ambrose Burnside. Confederacy - General Robert E. Lee, General P.G.T. Beauregard, General Stonewall Jackson, General J.E.B. Stuart, General George Pickett

12. Question #5 Name 2 Union AND 2 Confederate victories during the Civil War.

13. Answer #5 Union - Gettysburg, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Antietam Confederate - Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg

14. Question #6 What action taken by President Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam granted freedom to slaves in areas controlled by the Confederacy?

15. Answer #6 The Emancipation Proclamation.

16. Question #7 Which battle took place first, Antietam or Gettysburg?

17. Answer #7 Antietam.

18. Question #8 What battle successfully stopped the Confederate invasion of the North and is considered the turning point of the war?

19. Answer #8 Gettysburg.

20. Question #9 What is the term for the type of warfare that destroys an opponent’s military AND economic resources?

21. Answer #9 Total War.

22. Question #10 What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?

23. Answer #10 Vicksburg.

24. Question #11 Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

25. Answer #11 Appomattox, Virginia

26. Question #12 Who was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw?

27. Answer #12 Leader of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment.

28. Question #13 What contribution did most women make during the Civil War?

29. Answer #13 They ran farms and business while the men were gone.

30. Question #14 Name the 1st two ironclad ships used in the war.

31. Answer #14 Monitor and Merrimac

32. Question #15 What speech concluded the the famous words “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”?

33. Question #15 The Gettysburg Address.

34. Question #16 Hopes on both sides for a quick end to the war ended after what battle?

35. Answer #16 The First Battle of Bull Run

36. Question 17 Give the name for, and describe the three parts of, the Union plan for winning the war.

37. Answer 17 Anaconda Plan. Blockade Atlantic ports Control Mississippi River Capture Richmond

38. Question 18 What did General Grant choose to offer such generous terms of surrender at Appomattox?

39. Answer 18 He wanted to end the war without causing additional suffering or hatred.