Civil War Introduction

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• John Wilkes Booth

• Oscar Wilde

What side wears the Blue uniform?

• Union

• Confederate

What side is considered the North?

• Confederacy

• Union

What side has 'home field advantage'?

• Union

• Confederacy

Who won the Battle of Fort Sumnter (The First Battle of the War)?

• The Confederacy

• The Union

What was the first southern state to leave the Union?

• Georgia

• Maryland

• New York

• South Carolina

Why were some abolitionists unhappy with the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It did not apply to the

  entire country.

• They felt Lincoln had issued it too soon.

• They wanted the South to

  be punished for starting the war.

• It freed too many slaves

  too quickly.

Which general is most closely associated with waging total war?

• Robert E. Lee

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Joseph Hooker

• Stonewall Jackson

Who said this quote:

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing ALL the slaves, I would do it."

• Grant

• Lee

• Lincoln

• William Sherman

What were the two turning points in the war?

• Shiloh and Antietam

• Shiloh and Fredericksburg

• Gettysburg and Vicksburg

• Petersburg and Appomattox Court House