FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US CIVIL

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FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US CIVIL

WAR EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -121 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Fought at a creek near Manassas, Virginia (30 miles west of Washington D.C.), this was the first major showdown of the war.

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First Bull Run / First Manassas (July 21, 1861) Question 2: Part of Booth's conspiracy, he stabbed Secretary of State William Seward the same night of Lincoln's assassination. He was unsuccessful, though, in killing Seward.

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Lewis Powell Question 3: Secretary of the Treasury and later Chief Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1864

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Salmon P. Chase Question 4: This campaign was launched by Grant to take control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederate states from the east. Grant laid siege to town to force a Confederate surrender.

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Vicksburg Campaign (April 29 - July 4, 1863)

Question 5: Advancing within ten miles of Richmond, Grant met Lee at Cold Harbor (June 3); he lost 7,000 men to Lee's 1,500 and withdrew across the James River, but with the entire campaign he severely reduced Confederate strength in a war of attrition.

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Wilderness Campaign (May 5 - June 12, 1864) Question 6: Victory for the South, but with great cost, as Stonewall Jackson lost his life. Lincoln called on "Fighting Joe" Hooker to command the Union army. Hooker was knocked unconscious and the Union retreated.

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Chancellorsville (May 1-4, 1863) Question 7: After the battle, Burnside's troops were forced to make "The Mud March" up the Rappahannock, made foul by weather and dead and wounded bodies.

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Fredericksburg / Marye's Heights (December 13, 1862) Question 8: McClellan had a large enough force to capture the entire rebel army but did not use all of his troops nor coordinate one solid attack.

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Antietam / Sharpsburg (September 17, 1862) Question 9: Only George Thomas (the "Rock of Chickamauga") saved Rosecrans from annihilation.

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Chattanooga Campaign (September-November 1863) Question 10: Infamous Prisoner of War camp in the South. Henry Wirz was the only prisoner charged with war crimes in the Civil War due to his running of this prison camp.

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Andersonville, Georgia Question 11: Union commander George McClellan devised this plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia by sending 110,000 men up the peninsula between the York and James rivers.

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Peninsular Campaign (March - July 1862)

Question 12: Jackson moved around Hooker and counterattacked the Union flank on May

• That night, while Jackson was on reconnaissance, his own men mistook him for a Northerner

and shot him; he died of pneumonia eight days later.

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Chancellorsville (May 1-4, 1863) Question 13: This Supreme Court case ruled slaves as property who couldn't sue and that the US had no right to deprive citizens of owning property; making slavery, in theory, legal everywhere.

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Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) (Chief Justice was Roger

• Taney)

Question 14: Former slave and noted abolitionist who conferenced with Lincoln several times during the war.

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Frederick Douglass Question 15: This resounding victory by Lee and Jackson pushed Union forces back to D.C. The Union ceded all of Virginia to the Confederacy and marking a low point in the Union effort.

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2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Creek, August 29-30, 1862) Question 16: After Cold Harbor, Grant moved south to lay siege to a railroad hub. He finally destroyed the Confederate right flank at Five Forks. This resounding defeat led to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House one week later, effectively ending the Civil War.

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Petersburg Campaign (June 1864 - April 1865) Question 17: A channel in southeastern Virginia was the site of the first major fight between two ironclad ships. The Confederates raised an old wooden boat, the Merrimack, and fit it with ten guns and iron armor plates.

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Hampton Roads (March 9, 1862)

Question 18: Union commander Ambrose Burnside (who had replaced McClellan) tried to take the initiative and march toward Richmond. He met Lee's forces, which were well entrenched in the hills behind the town. With a superior position, Lee routed the Union army

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Battle of Fredericksburg (Marye's Heights, December 13, 1862).Question 19: The first clash between Grant and Lee, this series of conflicts started with the Battle of the Wilderness. Grant suffered his worst lost at Cold Harbor; but with the entire campaign he severely reduced Confederate strength in a war of attrition.

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Wilderness Campaign (May 5 - June 12, 1864) Question 20: Confederate commander Albert Sidney Johnston led a force north from Corinth, MS Ulysses S. Grant, who had just captured Fort Donelson, brought five Union divisions to face him. More than 13,000 Union and 10,000 Confederate soldiers lost their lives.

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Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing in Tennessee; April 6-7, 1862) Question 21: The bloodiest day of the Civil War: 12,000 Union men lost their lives, as did 10,000 Confederates. Lee planned a northern invasion into Maryland but a Union soldier discovered those battle plans wrapped around three cigars.

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Antietam / Sharpsburg (September 17, 1862) Question 22: Government organization that sought to give freed slaves an education and to teach them job skills

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Freedmen's Bureau Question 23: At this site, about 50 miles south of Washington, Union commander Ambrose Burnside (who had replaced McClellan) tried to take the initiative and cross the Rappahannock River in a march toward Richmond.

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Fredericksburg / Marye's Heights (December 13, 1862)