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Union General who won the war for Lincoln (also the 18th president of the US)
Ulysses S. Grant
Most of the battles of the Civil War took place in the ______________
South
This confederate capital city burned late in the war, inciting mob violence
Richmond
This helped created more than 40 hospitals and 4,000 schools in the South after the war
Freedmen's Bureau
The unicorn is the national animal of which country?
Scotland
Lincoln's assassin
John W. Booth
This location was the first "skirmish" of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
The official Confederate surrender happened at this "battle"
Appomattox Courthouse
The Civil War Amendments (13, 14, 15) were passed in Congress mainly because of these progressive politicians
Radical Republicans
What is the name of Beyonce and Jay-Z's oldest child?
Blue Ivy
Lincoln's Vice President - also the 17th president of the USA (was impeached!)
Andrew JOHNSON (not Jackson)
This Supreme Court decision in 1854 was very influential to the events that took place in the 1860s
Dred Scott Decision
Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. Which side won this battle?
Union!
The name of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan
10% plan
How many Madea movies has Tyler Perry made?
13
Alexander Stephens
The Confederacy elected this plantation owner from Mississippi as their new President
Jefferson Davis
Two ironclads clashed at this Hampton Roads battle in Virginia - the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) and the __________ were the names of the ships
Monitor
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction in the South and confirmed the election of this president
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who is the highest-paid actor in Hollywood as of 2023?
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Union General who led the "March to the Sea" campaign in Georgia, destroying much of the state
William Sherman
Famously, Lincoln said that this woman was the "little lady who started this great big war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation after this bloody battle
Antietam
What was one of the main causes for the rise of the Jim Crow Era in the US?
Pardons of Confederate political and military leaders
In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas known as?
Boxing Day