2Civil War History

Question 1

What does the 13th amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Ends slavery

Question 2

Where was he buried?

Accepted Answer

In a mass grave

Question 3

What was the death rate expressed as a percentage?

Accepted Answer

29%

Question 4

The march started in Atlanta and ended in what city?

Accepted Answer

Savannah

Question 5

What happened to him later in life?

Accepted Answer

He went into serious debt

Question 6

How long was Vicksburg under siege?

Accepted Answer

47 days

Question 7

When did this become a holiday?

Accepted Answer

2021

Question 8

When was it ratified?

Accepted Answer

December 18, 1865

Question 9

How much damage was done expressed as a dollar amount?

Accepted Answer

$1.5 million

Question 10

What body of water is Vicksburg located near?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi River

Question 11

What does the 14th amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Grants full citizenship and equal protection

Question 12

Who is Wilmer McClean?

Accepted Answer

Owner of the house where Appomattox took place

Question 13

How would you describe Grant’s terms of surrender?

Accepted Answer

Very generous

Question 14

What happened to Henry Wirz?

Accepted Answer

He was executed

Question 15

Who led the battle for the Union?

Accepted Answer

George Meade

Question 16

How many were arrested?

Accepted Answer

443

Question 17

How did Jefferson Davis respond to it?

Accepted Answer

He hated it

Question 18

Why wasn’t the Gettysburg Address photographed properly?

Accepted Answer

The speech was too short

Question 19

How many total casualties?

Accepted Answer

51,000

Question 20

How many Union soldiers were killed?

Accepted Answer

3,700

Question 21

How many others were supposed to be killed that night?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 22

What day was it delivered?

Accepted Answer

November 19, 1863

Question 23

Where was Lincoln’s bodyguard during the assassination?

Accepted Answer

At a bar next door

Question 24

What were the two effects of the March to the Sea?

Accepted Answer

Sherman is hated in the South, Lincoln wins the 1864 Election

Question 25

What state was Antietam fought in?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 26

What year was it ratified?

Accepted Answer

1868

Question 27

When was it ratified?

Accepted Answer

1870

Question 28

Where were slaves freed based on the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

In the Confederate states

Question 29

What type of gun was used?

Accepted Answer

Single-shot Derringer pistol

Question 30

What does the 15th amendment do?

Accepted Answer

Allows African American men to vote

Question 31

What type of photographs did Brady take?

Accepted Answer

Daguerreotypes

Question 32

What day did Vicksburg surrender?

Accepted Answer

July 4th, 1863

Question 33

How many days after Appomattox was Lincoln killed?

Accepted Answer

5 days

Question 34

Who led this regiment?

Accepted Answer

Robert Gould Shaw

Question 35

After what battle did Lincoln issue the proclamation?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Antietam

Question 36

What do you call the concept of destroying (railroads, farms, etc.)?

Accepted Answer

Total War

Question 37

What was the name of the charge on the third day where 2/3rds of a division was lost?

Accepted Answer

Pickett's Charge

Question 38

What did Gordon Granger do?

Accepted Answer

Told slaves in Texas they were free

Question 39

What building was burned?

Accepted Answer

A black orphanage

Question 40

What was the name of the exhibition that he put on and became famous for?

Accepted Answer

The Dead of Antietam

Question 41

How many words long was the address?

Accepted Answer

272

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