Civil War

What event triggered the secession of South Carolina and other deep southern states in 1860?

• Election of Republican President, Abraham Lincoln

• Fighting between pro and anti slavery forces in Kansas

• The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case

• A confrontation at Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Where was the opening confrontation of the Civil War, April 1861?

• Manassas, Virginia

• Fort Sumter, South Carolina

• Sharpsburg, Maryland

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after what battle of the Civil War?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• 1st Bull Run or Manassas

• Antietam

Who was the Confederate General in charge of leading the Army of Northern Virginia?

• Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

Who was the Union military commander who won victories over the South after several other Union commanders had failed?

• George McClellan

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who was a former United States senator who became president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

Former slave and prominent abolitionist who urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved African Americans to fight in the Union army?

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Jefferson Davis

• William Lloyd Garrison

What was President Lincoln's primary goal during the Civil War?

• Abolish slavery

• Preserve the Union

• Stop the expansion of slavery in the west

• Acquire the southwest and complete Manifest Destiny

What was the turning point battle of the Civil War where the Confederacy lost nearly a 1/3 of their army?

• Antietam

• 1st Bull Run or Manassas

• Appomattox

• Gettysburg

Juneteenth celebrated on June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in _________ finally became free when the United States Army arrived and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Georgia

• Mississippi

• Texas

• Missouri