General Facts 1
What Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington DC?
Richmond, Virginia
The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of ___________?
Antietam
To close ports
blockade
Union capital
True or False: There was only one attempt at assassinating Lincoln.
False (3)
What battle was named after a small church and one of the most influential battles of the war?
Shiloh
How did African Americans react to the Emancipation Proclamation?
Joyfully
Confederate commander who lead the attack on Fort Sumter
General PGT Beauregard
Captured in New Orleans
David Farragut
False (Robert E Lee)
William Sherman's "march to the sea" headed toward what city?
Savannah, Georgia
In the Civil War, for the first time, thousands of women served as what occupation?
Spies
Nurses
Confederate President
Jefferson Davis
African American regiment
54th Massachusetts
True or False: Two-thirds of soldiers died of disease during the war.
True
Copperheads
What guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed?
Habeas Corpus
Confederate capital
Richmond, Virginia
South's ironclad ship
Merrimack
True or False: 2% of the American population died in the Civil War
True
The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to
Reunite the country
In 1861, 48 Virginia counties organized themselves as a separate state called
West Virginia
Site of Robert E Lee's surrender
Appomattox Court House
Casualty of friendly fire in Chancellorsville
Stonewall Jackson
True or False: The oldest soldier to serve in the war was 70 years old.
False (80)