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American Civil War

What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Fort Sumter
Hoke's Run
Fort Sumter
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
55th Massachusetts
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
54th Massachusetts
31st Infantry Regiment
54th Massachusetts
Who led the army of Northern VA?
J.E.B. Stuart
George Pickett
John Bell Hood
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
First Confederate ironclad
Colorado
Virginia
Iowa
Merrimac
Merrimac
A constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed:
Habeas Corpus
Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.
Cruisers
Galleons
Ironclads
Ironclads
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Semple
Stephen Douglas
Orville Hickman Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Stephen Douglas
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
cobra plan
python plan
rattlesnake plan
anaconda plan
anaconda plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Union general
Confederate general
Union general
Turning point of the Civil War
Fredericksburg
Stone’s River
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
The Whig Party becomes the
Democratic
Republican
Republican
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Laredo
Gettysburg
Antietam
Fort Smith
Antietam
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was elected in:
1863
1860
1861
1864
1860
Grant besieged and captured this city. It was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here on April 9, 1865 - The Civil War was over
Vicksburg Court House
Appomattox Court House
Adams County Court House
Appomattox Court House
Confederate law that said you had to enroll in the army or military
Conscription Act
Robert E Lee was
Union general
Confederate general
Confederate general
According to Grant, what were surrendering Confederate soldiers aloud to keep?
robbed goods
horses
slaves
side arms
horses
side arms
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Republican
Democratic
Republican
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
7th December 1861
19th November 1860
6th November 1861
2nd September 1860
6th November 1861