Civil War Quiz

Which of these men was a commander for the Confederate Army?

Who was the President of the Confederacy?

What controversial man was a hero in the North but a terrorist in the South in 1858?

In the Compromise of 1850, where was slavery prohibited?

What happened on April 14th, 1865, only 5 days after Robert E. Lee's surrender?

Who won the election of 1860?

When did differences regarding slavery begin between the North and the South?

Which of these was NOT a major contributing factor to the Civil War?

For what side did the famous general Stonewall Jackson fight?

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Who were abolitionists?

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Which battle was the "turning point of the war", & the bloodiest 3-day battle in the Civil War?

What political party was "born" around 1850?

"Four score and seven years ago" was the beginning of what?

Who fired the first shot of the war, upon Fort Sumter?

What was the era after the war called?

The man in the last question led what raid that resulted in the deaths of white slave owners?

How many Southern states broke away from the Union right away, following the election?

Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history?

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act state?

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

Southern states threatened this if Lincoln was elected.

What did the Fugitive Act state?

What is a person called by his followers when he dies for a cause?

In what decade was the Civil War?

Where was this political cartoon best received (who liked it?)?

What line of latitude was used for the Missouri Compromise?

How many Southern states broke away after Lincoln asked State militias to support the war?

Where else was slavery prohibited because of the Compromise of 1850?