Misc. Battles Generals Abolitionist Government

Bonus Round

QUESTION: What 3 day battle (the bloodiest of the war) took place in 1863 and was a turning point in the War for the North? ANSWER: (Battle of Gettysburg)

QUESTION: What South Carolina fort was attacked before the war officially began? ANSWER: (Fort Sumter)

QUESTION: Also known as the Battle of Bull Run, what was the first official battle of the Civil War? ANSWER: (Manassas)

QUESTION: What battle in 1863 led to the capture of the last confederate fort on the Mississippi ? ANSWER: (Vicksburg)

QUESTION: What was the name of union plan for surrounding the South and blocking off their supply lines? ANSWER: (The Anaconda Plan)

QUESTION: Who is the general of the CSA? ANSWER: (Robert E. Lee)

QUESTION: What Union general and future US president led the Union Army in 1863? ANSWER: (Ulysses S. Grant)

QUESTION: What General’s March to the Sea extended from Georgia to North Carolina? ANSWER: (William T. Sherman)

QUESTION: What nickname did this Confederate general earn at the Battle of Manassas for not giving in to Union forces? ANSWER: (Stonewall Jackson)

QUESTION: Sherman's destructive style of warfare is known as what? ANSWER: (Total War)

QUESTION: What former slave bought his freedom, wrote an autobiography, and was an outspoken leader for the Abolitionist movement? ANSWER: (Frederick Douglass)

QUESTION: What Kansas preacher led an attack on the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,VA? ANSWER: (John Brown)

QUESTION: What white, female author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? ANSWER: (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

QUESTION: Who was the slave taken into free territory by his master, who brought a case before the supreme court which ruled that slaves were slaves wherever they went? ANSWER: (Dred Scott)

QUESTION: What Massachusetts man was a radical abolitionist who wrote and owned the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator? ANSWER: (William Lloyd Garrison)

QUESTION: Who was the president of the Union? ANSWER: (Abraham Lincoln)

QUESTION: What was the name of the nation formed by the seceded states? ANSWER: (Confederate Stats of America)

QUESTION: Who is the president of the Confederacy? ANSWER: (Jefferson Davis)

QUESTION: What event led to the secession of South Carolina? ANSWER: (The election of 1860)

QUESTION: What is the term for the Confederate draft that required healthy men from the ages of to serve in the army? ANSWER: (Conscription)

QUESTION: What was the cause of 2/3 of all Civil War deaths? ANSWER: (Disease)

QUESTION: What is the name of the type of Civil War boats that had metal coverings, which Naval warfare? ANSWER: (Iron Clads)

QUESTION: During the War, women were most often seen in what important profession? ANSWER: (Nursing)

QUESTION: These grooves on the inside of the barrel of the gun allowed for guns to be more accurate ANSWER: (Rifling)

QUESTION: What term that was common prior to the war referred to giving the power to the people? ANSWER: (Popular sovereignty)

QUESTION: What did Lincoln issue during the Civil War that broadened the war’s goals to now include ending slavery? ANSWER: (Emancipation Proclamation)

QUESTION: What was the location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army? ANSWER: (Appomattox Court House, Virginia)

QUESTION: What was one of Lincoln’s main goals during his presidency that lead to the North engaging in the Civil War? ANSWER: (For the Union to remain intact)

QUESTION: What agreement was reached prior to the Civil War that said that all new states about the 36 th parallel would be entered as free states with one exception? ANSWER: (The Missouri Compromise)

QUESTION: The issue of new territories becoming free states or slave states was a key issue leading to the Civil War because it effected what? ANSWER: (The balance of power in government)