Questions and Answers
American Civil War
1.
What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
2.
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
54th Massachusetts
3.
Who led the army of Northern VA?
Robert E. Lee
4.
First Confederate ironclad
Merrimac
5.
A constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed:
Habeas Corpus
6.
Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.
Ironclads
7.
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
8.
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
anaconda plan
9.
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Union general
10.
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
11.
The Whig Party becomes the
Republican
12.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Antietam
13.
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
14.
Lincoln was elected in:
1860
15.
Grant besieged and captured this city. It was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
16.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here on April 9, 1865 - The Civil War was over
Appomattox Court House
17.
Confederate law that said you had to enroll in the army or military
Conscription Act
18.
Robert E Lee was
Confederate general
19.
According to Grant, what were surrendering Confederate soldiers aloud to keep?
horses, side arms
20.
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Republican
21.
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
6th November 1861