How did this happen?
What issue caused the deepest and longest conflict between North and South?
Slavery
What was the tough but stable bread product common in Civil War rations?
Hardtack
Who was President of the USA during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the process called of trying to bring the north and south back together after the war?
Reconstruction
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Why did new territories create conflict before the war?
They raised the question of slavery expanding
What was the most common treatment of injuries to the limbs during the Civil War?
Amputation
Who was the lead Confederate general who had lived at Arlington?
Robert E. Lee
Which Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery?
13th
What battle is considered to be the single bloodiest day of the war?
Antietam
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote what book that help show northerners the horrors of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Soldiers spent most of their time doing what?
Drilling
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davies
These laws restricted movement and freedoms of for newly freed slaves in southern states:
Jim Crow Laws
What were the names of the two main ships that fought to a standoff in the Battle of the Ironclads
The Monitor and the Merrimack
This extreme abolitionist led a raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry:
What disease killed more people during the war more than any other?
Dysentery
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What is the name for the romanticized narrative that framed the Confederacy as honorable and just in their actions?
Lost Cause
Who did Andrew Johnson try to fire, leading to his impeachment by congress?
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
This proposal was put forth in congress many times to try to ban slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico, but was never successful:
The Wilmot Proviso
Andersonville
What was the full name of the Union general who burned Atlanta?
William Tecumseh Sherman
The Compromise of 1877 was the end result of the election between which two men?
Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden
The final battle of the Civil War took place where (not just the state)?
Palmeto Ranch, Texas