Question 1

Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 2

What was the name of the first major battle of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Bull Run

Answer

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer

Battle of Antietam

Answer

Battle of Fredericksburg

Question 3

Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Answer

Chancellorsville

Answer

Antietam

Answer

Vicksburg

Question 4

What was the name of the Union General who famously burned Atlanta during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Answer

Philip Sheridan

Answer

George B. McClellan

Answer

Joseph Hooker

Question 5

What was the name of the Union General who famously said, 'War is hell'?

Accepted Answer

William T. Sherman

Answer

George Meade

Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer

Philip Sheridan

Question 6

What was the name of the Union General who accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer

Philip Sheridan

Answer

George Meade

Answer

William T. Sherman

Question 7

What was the name of the amendment that abolished slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Answer

16th Amendment

Answer

15th Amendment

Answer

14th Amendment

Question 8

What was the name of the President who took over after Abraham Lincoln's assassination?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Johnson

Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer

James Garfield

Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 9

What was the name of the plan that aimed to rebuild the South after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction

Answer

New Deal

Answer

Great Society

Answer

Fair Deal

Question 10

What was the name of the President who oversaw the end of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Rutherford B. Hayes

Answer

James Garfield

Answer

Chester A. Arthur

Answer

Grover Cleveland

Question 11

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer

Slaughterhouse Cases

Question 12

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

a presidential order freeing slaves in Confederate states

Answer

a law passed by Congress ending slavery

Answer

an executive order granting voting rights to former slaves

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a treaty ending the Civil War

Question 13

What were the Black Codes?

Accepted Answer

laws that restricted the rights of black people after the Civil War

Answer

laws that granted voting rights to black people after the Civil War

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laws that established segregation in the South

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laws that abolished slavery in the North

Question 14

What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Accepted Answer

to abolish slavery

Answer

to grant voting rights to former slaves

Answer

to establish equal protection under the law

Answer

to grant citizenship to former slaves

Question 15

What was the purpose of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

Accepted Answer

to grant citizenship and equal protection under the law to all people born or naturalized in the United States

Answer

to establish new trade routes

Answer

to abolish slavery

Answer

to grant voting rights to former slaves

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