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QUESTION:
• What 3 day battle (the bloodiest of the war) took place in
1863 and was a turning point in the War for the North?
ANSWER:
•(Battle of Gettysburg)
QUESTION:
• What South Carolina fort was attacked before the war
officially began?
ANSWER:
•(Fort Sumter)
QUESTION:
• Also known as the Battle of Bull Run, what was the first
official battle of the Civil War?
ANSWER:
•(Manassas)
QUESTION:
• What battle in 1863 led to the capture of the last
confederate fort on the Mississippi ?
ANSWER:
•(Vicksburg)
QUESTION:
• What was the name of union plan for surrounding the
South and blocking off their supply lines?
ANSWER:
•(The Anaconda Plan)
QUESTION:
•Who is the general of the CSA?
ANSWER:
•(Robert E. Lee)
QUESTION:
• What Union general and future US president led the Union
Army in 1863?
ANSWER:
•(Ulysses S. Grant)
QUESTION:
• What General’s March to the Sea extended from Georgia to
North Carolina?
ANSWER:
•(William T. Sherman)
QUESTION:
•What nickname did this Confederate general earn at the
Battle of Manassas for not giving in to Union forces?
ANSWER:
•(Stonewall Jackson)
QUESTION:
•Sherman's destructive style of warfare is known as what?
ANSWER:
•(Total War)
QUESTION:
• What former slave bought his freedom, wrote an
autobiography, and was an outspoken leader for the
Abolitionist movement?
ANSWER:
•(Frederick Douglass)
QUESTION:
• What Kansas preacher led an attack on the Federal Arsenal
at Harper’s Ferry,VA?
ANSWER:
•(John Brown)
QUESTION:
• What white, female author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
ANSWER:
•(Harriet Beecher Stowe)
QUESTION:
• Who was the slave taken into free territory by his master,
who brought a case before the supreme court which ruled
that slaves were slaves wherever they went?
ANSWER:
•(Dred Scott)
QUESTION:
• What Massachusetts man was a radical abolitionist who
wrote and owned the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator?
ANSWER:
•(William Lloyd Garrison)
QUESTION:
•Who was the president of the Union?
ANSWER:
•(Abraham Lincoln)
QUESTION:
• What was the name of the nation formed by the seceded
states?
ANSWER:
•(Confederate Stats of America)
QUESTION:
• Who is the president of the Confederacy?
ANSWER:
•(Jefferson Davis)
QUESTION:
• What event led to the secession of South Carolina?
ANSWER:
•(The election of 1860)
QUESTION:
• What is the term for the Confederate draft that required
healthy men from the ages of 18-35 to serve in the army?
ANSWER:
•(Conscription)
QUESTION:
• What was the cause of 2/3 of all Civil War deaths?
ANSWER:
•(Disease)
QUESTION:
• What is the name of the type of Civil War boats that had
metal coverings, which Naval warfare?
ANSWER:
•(Iron Clads)
QUESTION:
• During the War, women were most often seen in what
important profession?
ANSWER:
•(Nursing)
QUESTION:
• These grooves on the inside of the barrel of the gun
allowed for guns to be more accurate
ANSWER:
•(Rifling)
QUESTION:
• What term that was common prior to the war referred to
giving the power to the people?
ANSWER:
•(Popular sovereignty)
QUESTION:
• What did Lincoln issue during the Civil War that broadened
the war’s goals to now include ending slavery?
ANSWER:
•(Emancipation Proclamation)
QUESTION:
• What was the location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to
the Union Army?
ANSWER:
•(Appomattox Court House, Virginia)
QUESTION:
• What was one of Lincoln’s main goals during his presidency
that lead to the North engaging in the Civil War?
ANSWER:
•(For the Union to remain intact)
QUESTION:
• What agreement was reached prior to the Civil War that
said that all new states about the 36th parallel would be
entered as free states with one exception?
ANSWER:
•(The Missouri Compromise)
QUESTION:
• The issue of new territories becoming free states or slave
states was a key issue leading to the Civil War because it
effected what?
ANSWER:
•(The balance of power in government)