Civil WAr

Question 1

Francis Lubbock

Answer 1

Texas Governor from 1861-1863 who helped raise troops for the Confederate army

Question 2

Robert E Lee

Answer 2

Confederate general who surrendered Appomattox courthouse

Question 3

John B. Hood

Answer 3

Commanded Texas infantry in major battles across eastern US

Question 4

Edmund Kirby Smith

Answer 4

Confederate general who hoped to keep fighting after Robert Lee surrendered

Question 5

John Magruder

Answer 5

Confederate general who retook Galveston from Union forces

Question 6

Thomas Green

Answer 6

Confederate colonel who attacked Galveston with two cotton clads

Question 7

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 7

Union general who accepted the surrender of the Confederate

Question 8

Sectionalism

Answer 8

Focus on the interests of ones region

Question 9

Sovereign

Answer 9

Free from outside control , self governing; supremacy of power

Question 10

emancipation proclamation

Answer 10

Abraham Lincoln issued the executive order that slaves in the Confederate states were free

Question 11

Thirteenth amendment

Answer 11

Congress passed this amendment to the constitution to abolish slavery throughout the nation

Question 12

Drew Scott decision

Answer 12

Ruled that African American were not citizens

Question 13

States rights

Answer 13

The position that the federal government should not interfere with the states exercising their constitutional powers

Question 14

John Reagan

Answer 14

Texan who served as a post master general of the confederacy

Question 15

Differences between north and south that caused the civil war

Answer 15

Economy
Disputes over tariffs 
Slave labor 
States rights
Sectionalism 
The election 1860

Question 16

Where are most battles at the Mississippi River

Answer 16

East

Question 17

Fort Sumter South Carolina

Answer 17

April 12, 1861, confederate forces opened fire on fort Sumter begins civil war

Question 18

First battle bull run Virginia

Answer 18

Confederate army stopped union attempt to capture Richmond Virginia

Question 19

Antietam Maryland

Answer 19

This was an important union victory single bloodiest battle in americas history

Question 20

Gettysburg Pennsylvania

Answer 20

Lee and the confederate army lose putting them on the defensive side the rest of the war

Question 21

Shiloh Tennessee

Answer 21

Union wins costly battle for both sides

Question 22

Vicksburg Mississippi

Answer 22

Union gains control of the Mississippi River and splits the confederate in two

Question 23

Jefferson Davis passed what law?

Answer 23

It drafted men between the ages of 18-35 to serve in the confederate army

Question 24

Battle of palmito ranch

Answer 24

Near Brownsville and Confederate victory however the civil war had already ended and the union won the war

Question 25

Why did the union want Sabine pass

Answer 25

To gain control of Houston and Galveston

Question 26

Galveston 1862

Answer 26

Union gains Galveston but later recaptured by the Confederacy