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🧠 American Civil War Quiz

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American Civil War Quiz
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First question:

Which Confederate general surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in April 1865?

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American Civil War Quiz — Questions and Answers

American Civil War

1easyWhich Confederate general surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in April 1865?
💡 Robert E. Lee🔍

Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in the parlour of Wilmer McLean's house at Appomattox Court House.

2easyThe war began in April 1861 when Confederate guns opened fire on which fort in Charleston harbour?
💡 Fort Sumter🔍

Fort Sumter sits on a man-made island at the mouth of Charleston harbour, and its surrender to Confederate forces marked the opening of the war.

3easyWho served as the one and only President of the Confederate States of America?
💡 Jefferson Davis🔍

Jefferson Davis, a former US Secretary of War and senator from Mississippi, was inaugurated in Montgomery, Alabama, before the Confederate capital moved to Richmond.

4easyRatified in December 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution abolished which institution?
💡 Slavery🔍

The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments and formally ended slavery across the whole United States.

5mediumWhich Union general cut a swathe of destruction through Georgia in 1864 on his 'March to the Sea', ending in Savannah?
💡 William Tecumseh Sherman🔍

Sherman's troops lived off the land and wrecked railways and supply lines as they marched, and he famously offered Savannah to Lincoln as a Christmas present.

6mediumWhich Confederate general earned a famous nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run for standing like a wall against the Union advance?
💡 Thomas J. Jackson🔍

Brigadier General Barnard Bee reportedly rallied his men by pointing to Jackson standing 'like a stone wall', and the name Stonewall stuck for the rest of Jackson's life.

7mediumThe Battle of Antietam in September 1862 is remembered as the bloodiest single day in American military history. In which state was it fought?
💡 Maryland🔍

The fighting took place around Sharpsburg, Maryland, and the Union's narrow strategic win gave Lincoln the opening to issue the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

8mediumWhich Virginia city, just over 100 miles from Washington, D.C., served as the Confederate capital for most of the war?
💡 Richmond🔍

Richmond became the Confederate capital soon after Virginia seceded, placing it within striking distance of Washington and making it a constant Union target.

9hardIn 1864 the Confederate raider CSS Alabama was sunk by USS Kearsarge off the coast of which French port?
💡 Cherbourg🔍

Crowds watched the duel from the shore and from yachts as the Alabama went down off the Normandy coast.

10hardWhich Swiss-born Confederate captain commanded the notorious Andersonville prison camp and was executed in 1865 for war crimes?
💡 Henry Wirz🔍

Henry Wirz was tried by a military tribunal in Washington and hanged, one of very few people executed for war crimes arising from the conflict.

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