American Civil War

1. How many Southern states broke away to form the independent country of the Confederate States of America?

2. What state was the first to break away from the Union in December 1860?

3. What Act allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery?

4. 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?

5. Who was a "conductor" in a secret network of antislavers called the "Underground Railroad"?

6. Who was the Confederacy's only president?

7. What was the capital of the Confederacy?

8. What event marked the start of the Civil War?

9. In which state the First Battle of Bull Run took place in 1861?

10. Which general of the Confederate forces was nicknamed "Stonewall"?

11. What was the name of the Union Army strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the war?

12. What was the universal color of Union uniforms?

13. Which Union general-in-chief served two terms as president after the war?

14. Who was a nurse in Union Army who wrote a novel Little Women?

15. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862?

16. What was the bloodiest of all Civil War battles?

17. Who revolutionized the Union's Army medical service and created encampments of tents near the battlefield?

18. In gratitude for the victory at Gettysburg, what holiday was proclaimed by President Lincoln?

19. Who led the "March to the Sea" that tore apart the Confederacy and helped the Union win the war?

20. What Amendment became a law in 1865, when the slavery was finally abolished?

21. Who signed the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia in 1865?

22. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre just a few days after Confederate surrender?

23. When a soldier died, what happened to their body?

24. Who was the most famous medical worker of the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross?

25. When did the Civil War actually end?