2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Loony Legislation Nitty-gritty Nuggets of Knowledge “General”ly Bombastic Battles Wacky Women of War
Question #1 What is the legislation that awarded the proceeds from public land sales for college lands?
Answer #1 Land Grant College Act
Question #2 What is the legislation in which the government granted 160 acres to any settlers promising to improve the land?
Answer #2 Homestead Act
Question #3 What is the political group that supported having black troops?
Answer #3 Radical Republicans
Question #4 What year was the National Banking Act passed?
Answer #4 1863
Question #5 In which court case did Lincoln declare that trying people in military courts was unconstitutional?
Answer #5 Ex Parte Milligan
Question #6 What nationality were the rioters in the New York Draft Riot?
Answer #6 Irish
Question #7 What poisonous snake was the Northern dissenters named after?
Answer #7 Copperheads
Question #8 What did North Carolinians who were opposed to the form?
Answer #8 Order of the Heroes of America
Question #9 Who was the last general to surrender?
Answer #9 Texas general Kirby Smith
Question #10 What did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting President Lincoln?
Answer #10 “Sic semper tyrannis”
Question #11 Who was appointed commander of all Union armies by Lincoln?
Answer #11 General Grant
Question #12 Where did General Lee finally surrender?
Answer #12 Appomattox Court House
Question #13 Which general carried the Atlanta Campaign, burning down the city?
Answer #13 General Sherman
Question #14 Which former general ran for president in the election of 1864 against President Lincoln?
Answer #14 McClellan
Question #15 What army did General Lee command?
Answer #15 The army of Northern Virginia
Question #16 In what battle did Union general George H. Thomas’ army destroy the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee in December 1864 during the Civil War?
Answer #16 Battle of Nashville
Question #17 Where did Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant launch a disastrous assault on Confederate positions?
Answer #17 Cold Harbor
Question #18 Which battle was a fierce hand to hand combat in dense woods in which it was General Lee’s last offensive?
Answer #18 Battle of the Wilderness
Question #19 Which battle did the Confederates lead a disastrous front assault on the well- entrenched Union positions in November 1864?
Answer #19 Battle of Franklin
Question #20 What was the series of attacks in Virginia by Union general Ulysses S. Grant and entrenched Confederate positions during May 1864
Answer #20 Battle of Spotsylvania
Question #21 In what field did women have a chance to directly serve in the war effort?
Answer #21 Nursing
Question #22 Who was the woman who treated soldiers on the battlefields?
Answer #22 Clara Barton
Question #23 What government department employed 447 women during the years of the Civil War?
Answer #23 The United States Treasury
Question #24 Southern magazines told women to be models of what for men?
Answer #24 Purity
Question #25 Who were the two women who worked as spies for the Confederacy?
Answer #25 Belle Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow