Quiz on Unit 13

Question 1

Confederate commander at Battle of Stones River

Answer 1

Braxton Bragg

Question 2

Battle after a later invasion of the North by Lee; scene of a famous speech by Lincoln dedicating a cemetery

Answer 2

Gettysburg

Question 3

Ineffective general, 1864 Democratic presidential candidate

Answer 3

George McClellan

Question 4

Location of Ford’s Theater, where Lincoln was shot

Answer 4

Washington, D.C.

Question 5

Grant took this city by a siege that trapped it against a river

Answer 5

Vicksburg

Question 6

Last Union general-in-chief appointed by Lincoln

Answer 6

U.S. Grant

Question 7

Led Union capture and burning of Atlanta

Answer 7

William Serman

Question 8

Union victories

Answer 8

Stones River and Lookout Mountain

Question 9

Assassin of Abraham Lincoln

Answer 9

John Wilkes Booth

Question 10

Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House

Answer 10

Robert E Lee

Question 11

Battle that occurred after Lee invaded the North for the first time.

Answer 11

Antietam (Sharpsburg)

Question 12

Lincoln’s running mate in 1864

Answer 12

Andrew Johnson

Question 13

Confederate victories

Answer 13

Fredericksburg and Chickamauga

Question 14

Costly Union victory near Corinth, Mississippi

Answer 14

Shiloh

Question 15

Battles in the last Confederate push in the West

Answer 15

Franklin and Nashville