Chapter 15 - The Civil War

Question 1

Largest Battle of the Civil War

July 1st-3rd, 1863

Union - Meade

Confederacy - Lee

Pickett Charge

Answer 1

Gettysburg

Question 2

Bloodiest Single Day of the War

In Maryland

Union officers found Confederate marching plans

Answer 2

Antietam

Question 3

Six Week Siege in summer of 1863

Union led by Ulysses S Grant

Last remaining Confederate holdout on the Mississippi River

Answer 3

Vicksburg

Question 4

Union President

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

Confederate President

Answer 5

Jefferson Davis

Question 6

Union Capital

Answer 6

Washington, DC

Question 7

Confederate Capital

Answer 7

Richmond, Virginia

Question 8

Major Union General

Answer 8

Ulysses S Grant

Question 9

Major Confederate General

Answer 9

Robert E Lee

Question 10

Year the War Started

Answer 10

1861

Question 11

Year the War Ended

Answer 11

1865

Question 12

Lincolns Goal at the Start of the War

Answer 12

To reunite the Nation

Question 13

1st State to Secede

Answer 13

South Carolina

Question 14

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 14

Called for the freeing of slaves in any area fighting against the Union

Question 15

What happened at Appomattox Court House?

Answer 15

The Confederate troops under Robert E Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant
(April 9, 1865)