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At what significant event did John Wilkes Booth say: "an excellent chance to kill the President, if I had wished."?
Lincoln's 2nd inaugural speech
Which of the following killed the most men during the American Civil War? Disease, hand-to-hand combat, muskets or weather?
Disease
Who won at the famous battle of the Ironclads?
Draw
A Supreme Court case in which a slave, sued for his freedom and lost; the case brought into question the federal power over slavery in the territories
Dred Scott Vs Sandford
The Battle of Antietam was fought between which two commanders?
General Robert E. Lee's Army Union General George B. McClellan's
On April 26, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered nearly 90,000 men of the Army of Tennessee to whom?
General William T. Sherman
Creator of the Anaconda plan.
General Winfield Scott
What was the Name of the 1st African American Regiment?
The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
General Johnson surrendering along with his 90,000 troops from Tennessee proved to be the largest surrender of Confederate forces, effectively what?
beginning of the end of the war
The Southern states viewed cessation of slavery as a violation of their what?
constitutional right
Why did the eastern part of Virginia rely on slave labor?
cotton
The Confederates assumed that European countries would do what after they separated from the Union?
intervene but none did
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the only U.S. President to serve the Confederacy during the Civil War?
John Tyler
Assassinated Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
What Union General said, "May God have mercy on General Lee for I will have none"?
Joseph Hooker
What happened on April 14, 1865, just 5 days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln is assassinated
Who was the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts?
Robert Shaw
What is the name of the event where William T. Sherman burned down the city of Atlanta?
Sherman's March to the sea
The Battle of Crater occurred during what siege?
Siege of Pittsburgh
The Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander H. Stephens said that ____________ was the "Cornerstone" of the Confederacy.
Slavery
The war had its origin in what factious issue?
Slavery
Which was the 1st state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
strong military leaders, Home field advantage, cotton production, cotton diplomacy.
Southern Strengths
What were three Civil War issues?
State Rights, Slavery, Preservation of the union
factories, food supply, population, railroads, money, weapons production.
Strengths of the North
In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency, called???
" Greenbacks "
How much were Union privates paid per month during the Civil War?
$13/Month
Name 4 of the 6 Generals that commanded the Union Army of the Potomac .
. McClellan, Hooker , Burnside, George G Meade, McDowell, parke
What were the three parts to the Anaconda Plan .
1) Blockade all Eastern and Southern ports in the Confederate States. 2) Divide the South by taking control of the Mississippi River. 3) take control of Richmond Virginia
African Americans made up what percent of the Union army?
10%
How many soldiers were in a "Company?"
100 soldiers
How many soldiers were in a "Regiment?"
1000
The Union faced secessionists in how many Southern states?
11
Amendment passed through Congress during the civil war that freed the slaves.
13th amendment
During what years was the Civil War fought?
1861-1865
How long this the Gettysburg address last?
2 minutes
How many men fought in the American Civil War?
2.75 million soldiers
Term coined by historians for the Civil War because the Civil War transformed the U.S from a partially agricultural society to a complex modern industrial society of capital, technology, national organizations, and corporations .
2nd American Revolution
How many horses did Confederate General Nathan Bedford have shot out from under him during the war?
30
Four years of intense combat left how many soldiers dead?
620,000-750000
Among the 34 U.S. states in January 1861, how many Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the U.S. and formed the Confederate States of America?
7 states
What were the groups of people called that campaigned against slavery?
Abolitionists
Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the 1860 presidential election?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis believed the death of what Confederate general was the turning point in the Civil War?
Albert Sydney Johnston
_______ was elected the vice president of the Confederacy in 1861. He strongly believed in state's' rights and argued for his state of Georgia to secede from the Confederacy as Davis called for more executive power.
Alexander H. Stephens
What special order was giving by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 regarding slavery?
All slaves are to be free in the "rebellious states"
What statement did the Emancipation Proclamation make?
All slaves in confederate states were free
The war ended with the surrender of what?
All the confederate armies
Where is the Union was slavery still allowed?
Border States; Maryland,Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky
The Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by whom?
Any foreign country or the United States
Where did R. E. Lee surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865?
Appomattox Court House
The civil war began in what year?
April 12, 1861
The Emancipation Proclamation was given after this battle.
Battle of Antietam
What battle took place at the "River of Death"?
Battle of Chickamauga
What was the largest battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What was the first battle between ironclad ships during the Civil War?
Battle of Hampton roads. Between monitor and Merrimac.
Another name for the First Battle of Bull Run- This battle was where spectators came and watched from a distance and had picnics?
Battle of Manassas
Last battle of Civil War fought in Texas after General Lee's surrender.
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Took place on April 6 - 7, 1862, in Tennessee. Led by:North - Grant,South - Johnston.23,000 Americans died, it was an Union victory. It was the Second Bloodiest Day in American History?
Battle of Shiloh
Battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi.
Battle of Vicksburg
Which battles was the bloodiest single day battle?
Battle of antietam
It took place on July 21, 1861 and was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Battle of bull run
General Robert E. Lee overwhelmingly defeated General Burnside and Union troops at _____.
Battle of chancellorsville
What Civil War general acquired the nickname "Spoons"?
Benjamin Butler
What was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship?
CSS Hunley
Who was responsible for starting the American Red Cross during the Civil War?
Clara Barton
A group of Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and wanted immediate peace negotiations with the Confederacy. The most famous was Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio who was briefly banished to Canada for his speeches against the war.
Copperheads
The election that brought Abraham Lincoln to the presidency and caused southern states to secede.
Election of 1860
At which battle did Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson get his nickname?
First Battle of Manassas
Where was President Lincoln famously shot at:
Ford's theater
Where were the first shots of the war fired?
Fort Sumter
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment became famous for its brave but failed charge on what Civil War fort?
Fort Wagner
This act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
Fugitive slave act
Which was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Who said: "The day you make soldiers of them is the beginning of the end of the revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong, but they won't make soldiers."?
Howell Cobb
Which major strategic location did the Union gain control of after the Battle of Vicksburg?
Mississippi River
What were the names of the two ironclad ships?
Monitor and merrimac
The capital of the Confederacy was?
Montgomery, Alabama and Richmond, Virginia
Where did the most important sea battle of the Civil War take place?
Near Norfold and Hampton
In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, supported what action regarding the issue of slavery?
Opposition to expansion. Some members wanted abolition and emancipation.
What was the name of the play he was watching when he was shot?
Our American Cousin
3 out of 4 Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded during this attack at the battle of Gettysburg.
Picketts charge
The Battle of Harper's Ferry was fought near what river?
Potomac river
What was the era after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
Who accepted the command of the Confederate Army?
Robert E lee
What was the standard issue rifle for Union soldiers?
The Springfield Model 1861
The states that remained loyal including Border States, were known as the what?
The Union
Took place on July 1-3 1863 resulted in over 50,000 deaths a 3 day long battle; was considered the Turning Point in the war?
The battles of Gettysburg
The eleven secession states groups together to form?
The confederacy
Who played a major role in the Battle of Bull Run Creek?
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
What was the name of Robert E. Lee's horse that he used throughout most of the Civil War?
Traveler
Which Union General burned Atlanta and led a march to the Sea?
William T. Sherman
Who ultimately led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy?
Ulysses Grant
What did Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's troops call him as a nickname?
Uncle Billy
What was the secret escape route used by slaves to escape to the north called?
Underground railroad
A civil war is a_____.
War between the same citizens of a country
What was the American civil war?
War fought between the north and the south in the US over the issue of slavery and whether it could be spread, kept, or abolished
What state was founded as a result of the difference in feeling about slavery among its people?
West Virginia
War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates did what?
When Confederate soldiers fired on Fort Sumter
Lee famously said what about Jackson?
You have lost your left arm, but I have lost my right."
Lincoln's March 4, 1861 inaugural address declared that his administration would not do what?
abolish slavery
The Confederate General who was mortally wounded by his own soldiers at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
general Stonewall Jackson
Which citizen freedom did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War?
habeas corpus
What is Triage?
system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield.
The Union referred to the first big battle in the East as the First Battle of Bull Run, what did the Confederates call this battle?
the Battle of Manassas.
More soldiers died in the civil war than what two other wars combined?
world war 1 and 2
