Battles of the Civil War

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Appomattox Court House

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

• Abe Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis
• Andrew Johnson

Who was the commanding officer of the Confederacy?

• General Grant

• General Lee

• General Sheridan

• General Sherman

Considered a turning point of the war; North becomes confident of winning the war

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Pittsburg
• Battle of Chickamauga

Bloodiest Battle day of the war (23,000 casualties) Confederates lost 1/3 of their army.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Fort Sumter

Grant besieged this city in Mississippi from May 18 to July 4, 1863, until it surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of New Orleans
• Battle of Savannah
• Battle of Fort Sumter

Ended Southern control of the Mississippi River Valley; fought in Tennessee

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Fort Sumter

Where did the South finally surrender unconditionally?

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Richmond
• Appomattox

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in Confederacy control by issuing the

• Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The speech of 1865

What was the main cause of the Civil War? 

• Debate over slavery
• Debate over land ownership
• Debate over religion
• Debate over taxes