Civil War Quiz Review Questions
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What caused a loss of confidence in the North towards the South?
What type of platform did the southern Democrats call for in the 1860 election?
What type of platform did the northern Democrats call for in the 1860 election?
What was the first state to secede from the United States?
What was Lincoln’s dilemma at Fort Sumter?
What caused the North/Union to surrender at Fort Sumter?
Identify the 11 states that joined the answer to #4 and formed the Confederate States of
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What replenished the North and ensured continued production of goods?
What was “well developed” in the North?
What was the Anaconda Plan of the North?
What was the South’s strategy to win the Civil War?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the war symbolically?
Where did almost all of the battles of the war take place?
What two effects did the Battle of Gettysburg have on the South?
What is total war?
What was the first major battle of the war?
What did both sides assume about the war?
What two ships fought in the world’s first battle of ironclad ships?
Which battle claimed more lives than all battles in the history of the US, up to that point?
What was the bloodiest single day of the war?
Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?
Identify the five major leaders of the Union Army.
Why was Grant’s Siege of Vicksburg important?
What battle is considered the turning point of the war?
How many copies of the Gettysburg Address exist?
What does the Gettysburg Address reiterate?
Who led the “March to the Sea” through the heart of the Confederacy?
Which former general did Abraham Lincoln defeat for the presidency in 1864?
Where did the war end with the South surrendering?
How often do we elect a president?
What body officially elects the president?
Why is the Civil War considered the first modern war?
According to Brian Williams, what determined if you lived or died on the battlefield?
What backed the war effort, for the first time in history?
How many soldiers died from disease and wounds than on the battlefield?
What reached home for the first time in history from the battlefield?
What became a trademark of modern warfare?
What is the Social Contract?
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What is prerogative?
What is the first document in American history about self-government?
What war forced the British to raise taxes on Americans, setting up the Revolutionary War?
What document’s belief is all men are created equal?
What was the official government between the end of the Revolutionary War and Constitution?
What event showed #45 was failing and a change was needed, leading to the Constitution?
What did Alexander Hamilton propose, leading to a constitutional controversy and debates
against Thomas Jefferson?
What decree from President James Monroe prevented European aggression and expansion into
the Western Hemisphere?
Why is the Dred Scott case important?
What is nullification?
What ended slavery in America forever?