CASH CLASS

Civil War Edition

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Q:
What is the nickname given to
northern democrats opposed the
war effort and sympathized with
the South?
A:
Copperheads
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Q:
Who was America’s first
professionally licensed female
doctor?
A:
Elizabeth Blackwell

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Q:
Who was the commanding General
of the Confederate Army?
A:
Robert E. Lee

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Q:
The Emancipation Proclamation
only freed the slaves in which
area?
A:
Confederate or rebelling states

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Q:
Which compromise was proposed
at the last minute to avoid the
war and bring back the Missouri
Compromise line?
A:
Crittenden Compromise
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Q:
What type of warfare did General
William Tecumseh Sherman
utilize that called for the
destruction of Confederate
military and economic
resources?
A:
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Q:
What battle became know as the
“Great slaughter pen” due to the
number of Union troops killed?
A:
Fredericksburg

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Q:
What was the name of Lincoln’s
speech that dedicated a
battlefield cemetery and bonded
the Union to finish the war?
A:
Gettysburg Address
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Q:
Who was the president of the
Confederate states?
A:
Jefferson Davis

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Q:
Which major battle did African
Americans see their first serious
action?
A:
Port Hudson

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Q:
Which state was the first to
secede from the Union after the
election of 1860?
A:
South Carolina

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Q:
What was the only negative
outcome of the Civil War for the
North?
A:
Number of casualties

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Q:
Who founded the American Red
Cross?
A:
Clara Barton

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Q:
Who was the original commanding
general of the Union army that
ran against Lincoln in the 1864
election?
A:
George B. McClelland
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Q:
Which battle was a Union victory
that allowed for the
announcement of the
Emancipation Proclamation?
A:
Antietam
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Q:
Who was the abolitionist editor of
the New York Tribune that
criticized Lincoln for not making
slavery the central war issue?
A:
Horace Greeley
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Who was the Confederate General
who was accidentally shot by his
own troops during the battle of
Chancellorsville?
A:
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
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Which battle allowed the Union to
gain control of the Mississippi
River?
A:
Vicksburg

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Q:
What tactic the General Ulysses S.
Grant used to wear down the
Confederate army from constant
attack?
A:
War of Attrition
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What was the name of the fort
where the first shots of the war
were fired and led to Lincoln
calling up troops and border
states choosing sides?
A:
Fort Sumter
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Q:
Which battle was a Union victory
that kept European forces from
aiding the Confederacy?
A:
Gettysburg

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Q:
Which amendment promised to
protect slavery in the areas it
already existed?
A:
Corwin Amendment

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Q:
Which battle outside of
Washington, D.C. proved to
many that the war would last
longer than originally expected?
A:
First Battle of Bull Run
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Q:
What city was the capital of the
Confederacy?
A:
Richmond

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Q:
Who was the Tennessee War
Democrat Lincoln chose as his
running mate in the election of
1864?
A:
Andrew Johnson
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Q:
What was the name of the small
Virginia town where General Lee
surrendered the Confederate
army to General Grant?
A:
Appomattox Courthouse
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Q:
What major southern city did
General Sherman capture and
burn before heading to
Savannah in 1864?
A:
Atlanta
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Q:
During the War, Lincoln suspended
some civil liberties including
what right that protects people
from false imprisonment?
A:
Habeas Corpus
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Q:
What were the two main
advantages the South had over
the North during the War?
A:
Military leadership & defensive
war/homefield
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Q:
What was the name of the first
draft law in American history
enacted by the Confederacy in
1862?
A:
Conscription
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Q:
What was the name of the theater
where John Wilkes Booth
assassinated Abraham Lincoln on
April 14th, 1865?
A:
Ford’s Theater
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