The American Civil War - GSE SS8H5

Question 1

What slave lived for a period of time in a free state and later sued for his freedom?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 2

What was issued days after the Battle of Antietam?

Accepted Answer

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Question 3

Lincoln's election in 1860 sparked a series of what shortly thereafter?

Accepted Answer

Secession of Southern states

Question 4

Conflicts between proslavery & anti-slavery people in the Kansas/Nebraska areas were known as?

Accepted Answer

Bleeding Kansas

Question 5

What Civil War battle was known as the "bloodiest battle?"

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 6

Who won the US Presidential election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

What is the term that relates to a state determining if a federal law is constitutional or not?

Accepted Answer

Nullification

Question 8

According to the "Georgia Platform," did Georgia support the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

Yes, but only if the North supported it

Question 9

Which statement regarding the Emancipation Proclamation was true?

Accepted Answer

The South could keep their slaves if they stopped fighting

Question 10

Did the Emancipation Proclamation truly free slaves immediately when it was issued?

Accepted Answer

No, Lincoln had no control in Southern states at the time

Question 11

What was Sherman's main reason for destroying many civilian targets in his "March to the Sea?"

Accepted Answer

He wanted to break the will to fight of the Southern people.

Question 12

How many Americans died in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Just over 600,000

Question 13

Why did Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Accepted Answer

To dedicate part of the battlefield as a cemetary

Question 14

Which Civil War battle is known as the "bloodiest one-day battle?"

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 15

What was the location of an infamous Confederate prison in Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Andersonville

Question 16

What legislation allowed California to enter the Union as a free state?

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 17

What did the US Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott Case?

Accepted Answer

He was a slave & thus couldn't sue since he wasn't a citizen

Question 18

Which side believed in slavery and what was one reason why?

Accepted Answer

Confederacy, because of its agricultural economy

Question 19

Who commanded the Union Army during the "March to the Sea?"

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 20

How did the Union Army hurt the Southern economy and effectively reduce their war resources?

Accepted Answer

Naval blockade of Southern ports

Question 21

Why did General Sherman refrain from burning Savannah?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to protect the thousands of bails of cotton

Question 22

Battle won by Confederates after Union crossed into Georgia from Tennessee on way to Atlanta?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Chickamauga

Question 23

What is meant by the concept of "states' rights?"

Accepted Answer

A state is sovereign and not subject to a higher authority.

Question 24

Which side won the American Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The United States of America

Question 25

Which side believed in "states' rights?"

Accepted Answer

Confederacy

Question 26

What was most at stake in the Battle of Chickamauga?

Accepted Answer

control of the railroad center in nearby Chattanooga

Question 27

What killed the most people during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Disease

Question 28

What year did the Civil War begin?

Accepted Answer

1861

Question 29

Where was the surrender signed that effectively ended the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Court House, Virginia

Question 30

What process did Georgia go through in order to secede from the Union?

Accepted Answer

A vote was taken in a Secession Convention.

Question 31

Sherman's "March to the Sea" cut a 60-mile wide path of destruction between which two cities?

Accepted Answer

Atlanta to Savannah

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