Civil War Test - - Part 1

Question 1

What is the name of the city in Kentucky where the only major Civil War battle occur?

Answer 1

Perryville Kentucky

Question 2

What is the name of the campaign where the union forces marched toward the Confederate capital sailing down the Chesapeake and landing on the strip of land between York and James Rivers?

Answer 2

The Peninsula

Question 3

What is the name of the 3 day battle fought in Pennsylvania that was the turning point in the war?

Answer 3

Gettysburg

Question 4

What man turned down Lincoln’s offer to command Union forces and instead decided to command the southern forces when Virginia seceded from the Union?

Answer 4

Robert E Lee

Question 5

What is the name of the single most important crop the south believed would help them WIN the Civil War?

Answer 5

Cotton

Question 6

Who was the President of the UNION side?

Answer 6

Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

Who was the President of the Confederacy? (South)

Answer 7

Jefferson Davis

Question 8

What is the name of the fort, where the FIRST shots of the Civil War were launched, which was located in Charleston Bay, South Carolina,

Answer 8

Fr. Sumter

Question 9

What was the capital of the SOUTH during the Civil War?

Answer 9

Richmond, Virginia

Question 10

Who was the confederate general who received a famous nickname after the Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 10

General Thomas Jackson

Question 11

What is the name of the city that is located on the Mississippi River, that when it fell to Union forces, split the south in half?

Answer 11

Vicksburg

Question 12

What is the statement that what issued at the Battle of Antietam, where the president freed all slaves in the states still fighting as of January 1, 1863?

Answer 12

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 13

What is the name of the general who trained the. Army of the Potomac - won a questionable victory at Antietam and was fired twice by Lincoln?

Answer 13

George B McClellan

Question 14

What is the name of Lincoln’s famous speech that dedicated a military cemetery in Pennsylvania?

Answer 14

Gettysburg Address

Question 15

What is the name of the Compromise which was proposed in 1860 - to save the country by extending 36*30 all the way to California?

Answer 15

Crittenden compromise

Question 16

What is the name of the bloody battle fought near a small white church, whose name meant a “place of peace” where Union troops were surprised the first day but turned the tide and won a key victory?

Answer 16

Shiloh

Question 17

What side of the Civil War were Indiana, Ohio and Maine?

Answer 17

Union States

Question 18

What side of the Civil War were South Carolina, Virginia and Texas?

Answer 18

Confederate States

Question 19

What the the Capital of the Union states?

Answer 19

Washington DC

Question 20

What were the battles in Virginia that were fought over the same ground, but were one year apart?

Answer 20

Battles of Bull Run

Question 21

What is the name of the UNION general who won victories at Ft. Donelson, Vicksburg and Chattanooga?

Answer 21

General Ulysses S Grant

Question 22

What were Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland known as during the Civil War?

Answer 22

Border States

Question 23

Where did the Seven Days battles occur that resulted in a defeat for the Union forces?

Answer 23

The Peninsula

Question 24

What is the name of the UNION Plan for winning the Civil War?

Answer 24

Anaconda Plan

Question 25

What divided the Eastern and Western parts of the war?

Answer 25

The Appalachian Mountains