Civil War Exam

Question 0

What were Northerners called?

Answer 0

Union

Yankees

Question 1

What years was the civil war?

Answer 1

1861-1865

Question 2

Who was the president of the Union and what was the capital?

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln

Washington DC

Question 3

What were Southerners called?

Answer 3

Confederacy

Rebels

Question 4

Who was the president of the confederacy and what were the capitals?

Answer 4

Jefferson Davis
1st Montgomery, Alabama
2nd Richmond, Virginia

Question 5

What was the unofficial border between the North and the South?

Answer 5

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 6

What were the four border states?

Answer 6

Missouri
Maryland
Delaware
Kentucky

Question 7

Northern Advantages

Answer 7

Larger population
More raw materials
More money
More railroads 
Large navy (671)

Question 8

Southern Advantages

Answer 8

Fighting on familiar land
Better generals
Europe might help
Close food supply
Better basic skills

Question 9

The First Battle of Bull Run was also known as what?

Answer 9

First Manssas

Question 10

Who gained fame at the First Bull Run for holding the Confederate line?

Answer 10

Stonewall Jackson

Question 11

Who won First Bull Run?

Answer 11

South

Question 12

King Cotton Diplomacy

Answer 12

Use of cotton as a negotiating tool

Question 13

Why was England for war?

Answer 13

Take New England/ eliminate economic competition

Question 14

Why were England and France against the war?

Answer 14

Feared North

Against slavery

Question 15

Why was France for the war?

Answer 15

Expand empire in Mexico

Eliminate economic competition

Question 16

Who was the Northern general at the battle of Shiloh?

Answer 16

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 17

Who was the Southern general at the battle of Shiloh?

Answer 17

Albert S. Johnston

Question 18

Who was the Northern general at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 18

Irvin McDowell

Question 19

Who was the Southern general at the First Battle Of Bull Run?

Answer 19

P.T. Beauregard

Question 20

What was the bloodiest one-day battle of the war?

Answer 20

Antietam

Question 21

Who was the Northern general at the battle of Antietam?

Answer 21

George McClellan

Question 22

Who was the Southern general at the Battle of Antietam?

Answer 22

Robert E Lee

Question 23

What were 3 effects of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 23

Freed all slaves in confederate territory (not border states)
Europe now refuses to help south
1/4 of all slave indirectly gain freedom

Question 24

Black Soldiers

Answer 24

Paid less
Under white officers
Prejudice
Chores
200,000 fought
South would hang

Question 25

What was the first Black unit recruited?

Answer 25

54th Massachusetts

Question 26

The 54th Massachusetts attacked where? Led by who?

Answer 26

Ft. Wagner, SC

Robert Gould Shaw

Question 27

13th Amendment

Answer 27

Ended slavery

Question 28

14th Amendment

Answer 28

Citizenship

Question 29

15th Amendment

Answer 29

Vote

Question 30

Grant laid siege to what city for 1 year?

Answer 30

Vicksburg

Question 31

Who was the Northern general at the battle of Gettysburg

Answer 31

George Meade

Question 32

Who was the Southern general at the battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 32

Robert E Lee

Question 33

Soldiers: Basic Facts

Answer 33

Often 1st time away from home
Ave. age 18
Constant marching/drilling
Cards, letters, books, baseball, music
Wool uniforms
North: coffee, beans, salt pork, hardtack 
South: bacon, cornbread, hardtack

Question 34

Challenges

Answer 34

Draft
South having trouble feeding/replacing men
Disease

Question 35

Where did Lee surrender?

Answer 35

Appomattox Courthouse, VA

Question 36

Effects of the War

Answer 36

750,000 dead
Many widows
More industry
Couldn't secede
South in shambles
4 million slaves freed
Fed. Government more powerful

Question 37

Who assassinated Lincoln?

Answer 37

John Wilkes Booth

Question 38

Where was Lincoln assassinated?

Answer 38

Ford’s Theater