Civil War Test

What is the period after the Civil War named?

Other than president, what federal office did Abraham Lincoln hold?

Who was the main General for the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Which of the following generals led his tropps in a desparate bayonet charge down Gettysburg's Little Round top?

How many terms was Abraham Lincoln elected?

Which battle won the Mississippi River for the Union and cut the Confederacy in half?

Where was the capital of the Confederacy?

Where was Abraham Lincoln Born?

Where was the capital of the Union?

What did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation do?

What general was the first to be offered the position of highest ranking general for the Union Forces?

What was Abraham Lincoln's nickname?

The Confederacy won at _, the first major land battle of the Civil War.

Who was Lincoln's Secretary of State?

What was the nickname given to the Union soldiers?

What was the nickname given to Confederate soldiers?

Which of the following attempted to assasinate Secretary of State William Seward?

Where did President Abraham Lincoln die?

Where did the Confederacy surrender the Army of Virginia under General Lee effectively ending the Civil War?

Which of the following generals was a great organizer and adminstartor, but very reluctant to actually fight?

Why did the Union do poorly in the first two years of the war?

Who won the American Civil War?

When was the American Civil War?

Which Civil War battle did General Thomas Jackson earn the nickname "Stonewall"?

Who won the Battle of Vicksburg?

Who defended Mary Surratt in her Conspiracy trial?

Who was Abraham Lincoln's assasin?

Which of the following was assigned to assasinate Vice President Andrew Johnson?

Abraham Lincoln said, "_______________________________________."

Who was the second in command of the Union forces and famous for his march to the sea through Georgia?

Which Civil War battle included civilians having picnics and watching the battle take place?

How many states seceeded from the union in the 1860's?

Who is known as the main General for the Union Forces during the Civil War?

When Abraham Lincoln was assasinated who was his Vice President?

Which of the following state was NOT part of the Confederate States of America?

Which ironclad ship was built for the Confederacy, featuring 10 fixed guns?

Who was president of the Confederacy?

After which battle did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Which battle ended Lee's ambitious quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end?

Which battle won the Union the intersection of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and the Memphis and the Charleston Railroad?

What U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania was at the forefront of equality for the enslaved?

What issue caused states to seceed from the Union?

Who or what saved William Seward from being assasinated?

Who was Abraham Lincoln's first lady?

Abraham Lincoln was the______ President of the U.S.

The Confederacy included the following states EXCEPT:

Who owned the boarding house where the plans to kidnap and then eventually assasinate Lincoln, Seward, and Johnson?

How did John W. Booth die?

Who was President Lincoln's Secretary of War?

Who was the doctor charged in the Lincoln Assasination Conspiracy for treating John W. Booth's broken leg?

Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?

Which of the following means "formal withdrawal"?

What ended slavery in the United States?

Which of the following disagreed with Lee's plan at the Battle of Gettysburg that led to the Confederate's defeat?

Which of the following was NOT a Border state?

Abraham Lincoln was a member of what political party?

Who was the Republican Party candidate for the 1860 presidential election?

Who was the Democratic candidate in the presidential election of 1860?

Which general died from a gunshot fired by his own men?

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Which of the following was NOT executed for his part in the Lincoln Assasination Conspiracy?

Where was Lincoln assasinated?