American Civil War - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who was the Confederacy's only president?	Jefferson Davis	95%
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862?	Abraham Lincoln	91%
What was the universal color of Union uniforms?	Dark blue	91%
Who signed the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in 1865?	Robert E. Lee	91%
What was the bloodiest of all Civil War battles?	The Battle of Gettysburg	91%
Which Union general-in-chief served two terms as president after the war?	Ulysses S. Grant	91%
What is the name of the antislavery novel sold in 300,000 copies that brought some of the harsh realities of slavery to a wider mainly white audience?	Uncle Tom's Cabin	91%
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre just a few days after Confederate surrender?	John Wilkes Booth	86%
What state was the first to break away from the Union in December 1860?	South Carolina	86%
What Amendment became a law in 1865, when the slavery was finally abolished?	13th Amendment	82%
What was the capital of the Confederacy?	Richmond	82%
What event marked the start of the Civil War?	The Attack on Fort Sumter	82%
Which general of the Confederate forces was nicknamed "Stonewall"?	Thomas J. Jackson	82%
Who led the "March to the Sea" that tore apart the Confederacy and helped the Union win the war?	William T. Sherman	82%
How many Southern states broke away to form the independent country of the Confederate States of America?	11	77%
Who was the most famous medical worker of the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross?	Clara Barton	77%
Who was a "conductor" in a secret network of antislavers called the "Underground Railroad"?	Harriet Tubman	77%
What Act allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery?	Kansas-Nebraska Act	77%
In which state the First Battle of Bull Run took place in 1861?	Virginia	68%
What was the name of the Union Army strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the war?	Anaconda Plan	64%
When a soldier died, what happened to their body?	They were buried where they died	59%
Who was a nurse in Union Army who wrote a novel Little Women?	Louisa May Alcott	50%
Who revolutionized the Union's Army medical service and created encampments of tents near the battlefield?	Jonathan Letterman	27%
In gratitude for the victory at Gettysburg, what holiday was proclaimed by President Lincoln?	Thanksgiving	27%
When did the Civil War actually end?	When President Andrew Johnson ended the war	23%

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