CIVIL WAR

Question 1

What did the southern states do when they seceded from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Formed the Confederate States of America

Question 2

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 3

When did the Civil War start?

Accepted Answer

April 12, 1861, 4/12/1861

Question 4

Approximately how many people died in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

620,000

Question 5

Primary economic income of the South

Accepted Answer

Cotton

Question 6

A soldiers chance of survival in the war was?

Accepted Answer

1/4, one in four

Question 7

Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

The first time in history that troops were moved by train was for which battle?

Accepted Answer

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 9

The capital of the Confederacy was?

Accepted Answer

Richmond, Virginia

Question 10

What was the first MAJOR battle of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 11

Two leading causes of death during the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Infection and disease

Question 12

A civil war is _____?

Accepted Answer

a war between the people of the same country

Question 13

Fighting in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee became known as the "War in the _."

Accepted Answer

West

Question 14

What were the groups of people called that campaigned against slavery?

Accepted Answer

abolitionists

Question 15

He was the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

Accepted Answer

John Wilkes Booth

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