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Question 1

___________was the Commander of the Confederacy.

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 2

Robert E. Lee decided to end the war by surrendering to Grant at a place called _____________.

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Courthouse

Question 3

The ____________ was fought between 1846-1848.

Accepted Answer

Mexican War

Question 4

An ______ is someone who wants slavery abolished, or made illegal.

Accepted Answer

Abolitionist

Question 5

The _______ Amendment granted voting rights to all men regardless of race.

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 6

The South warns that if Abraham Lincoln wins the Election of 1860, the South will __________.

Accepted Answer

secede

Question 7

The _____ Amendment made slavery illegal

Accepted Answer

13th

Question 8

The President who wins the1860 Election is ____________.

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

The _____________ was passed to keep the country together and avoid a civil war.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 10

The Caning of __________ proved how even the congressmen were hostile to one another.

Accepted Answer

Charles Sumner

Question 11

In his first Inaugural Address, Lincoln promised not to interfere with ___________.

Accepted Answer

Slavery

Question 12

The __________ Party splits over the slavery issue.

Accepted Answer

Democratic

Question 13

___________was one of 2 major turning points in the war.

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 14

___________ was a Union General.

Accepted Answer

Ulysses Grant

Question 15

In 1845,______was annexed into the United States.

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 16

The ____________, formed in 1854, believed in not having any more slave states.

Accepted Answer

Republican Party

Question 17

___________was the first state to secede.

Accepted Answer

South Carolina

Question 18

The nation watches the _______________ Debates.

Accepted Answer

Lincoln-Douglas

Question 19

Among the causes of theCivil War was ___________ and State’s Rights.

Accepted Answer

Slavery

Question 20

_____________was the President of the Confederate States of America.

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 21

_________ was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress.

Accepted Answer

Hiram Revels

Question 22

________was a month long siege that ended with the Union capture of the key city.

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg

Question 23

Lincoln’s most famous speech was the __________.

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg Address

Question 24

____________ marked the beginning of the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 25

When the South didn't approve or ratify 14th Amendment the South was placed into military __.

Accepted Answer

Districts

Question 26

The Supreme Court in _________________ ruled that slaves were not citizens.

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Question 27

After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the _____________.

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 28

The ______ Amendment granted citizenship

Accepted Answer

14th

Question 29

In the 1850’s a man named _________ sued his owner for his freedom.

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 30

Harriet Beecher Stowe writes the novel _______________.

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 31

Abraham Lincoln became the first __________ President of the United States.

Accepted Answer

Republican

Question 32

Abe Lincoln and _____ both opposed the Mexican War and viewed it as bullying a weaker nation.

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 33

_____________ was one of the Best Confederate Generals.

Accepted Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Question 34

The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ended the war and granted the US the____________.

Accepted Answer

Mexican Cession

Question 35

Some former confederate states organized groups and created laws known as the __________.

Accepted Answer

Black Codes

Question 36

In the 1850s the________was passed for territories to decide the issue of slavery for themself.

Accepted Answer

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 37

The __________ helped newly emancipated slaves with education.

Accepted Answer

Freedman Bureau

Question 38

The Kansas-Nebraska Act set off an event known as ___________.

Accepted Answer

Bleeding Kansas

Question 39

John Brown leads a slave revolt at ______________.

Accepted Answer

Harper’s Ferry

Question 40

From the years 1861-_____the United States was engaged in the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

1865

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