Civil War
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- Q1What nickname did a Northerner give to a Southerner during the Civil War?"Yankee", "Yank" or "Billy Yank""Rebel", "Reb" or "Johnny Reb"30s
- Q2What color are Union army uniforms?BlueRedGrayBrown30s
- Q3To willfully break away...like South Carolina did at the beginning of the Civil War.CedeSecede30s
- Q4The act of resisting authority or government...(like 11 southern states who secede or Daniel Shay or Nathaniel Bacon.)PatriotLoyalistRebellion30s
- Q5What color are the Confederate Army Uniforms?BlueBrownRedGray or Butternut30s
- Q6What hard, floury food did many Civil War soldiers carry as a ration (to eat)?CupcakesGranolaHard TackCrackers30s
- Q7Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the whole country...one of the causes of the Civil War.NationalismPatriotismSectionalism30s
- Q8What city does the Union have as its capital city?PhiladelphiaNew YorkWashington, DCBoston30s
- Q9What city does the Confederacy have as its capital?CharlestonAtlantaRichmondNew Orleans30s
- Q10What nickname did a Southerner give to a Northerner during the Civil War?"Rebel", "Reb" or "Johnny Reb""Yankee", "Yank" or "Billy Yank"30s
- Q11A war between citizens of the same country.Patriot WarCivil WarWorld War30s
- Q12Someone who escapes and is on the run from the law ( ya know like the Act passed in the Compromise of 1850).SlaveFugitivePrisoner30s
- Q13The white fibrous substance that becomes the main cash crop in the South.WheatRiceCotton30s
- Q14Document written after the Battle of Antietam that freed the slaves.Gettysburg Address19th AmendmentEmancipation Proclamation30s
- Q153 factors considered to be the cause of the Civil War.States Rights, Elections and NationalismStates Rights, Sectionalism and Slavery30s