What was the first state to secede following Lincoln’s election?
What did the Crittenden Compromise propose, and did it pass?
True or False: The Constitution of 1781 had been ratified by state conventions, and not by popular vote?
What event persuaded 4 states to secede?
Whose lawyer petitioned the federal circuit court in Baltimore after being arrested for underground confederate activities?
In October 1861, what did Richmond papers call Robert E. Lee?
Where did Confederate Gen. Jefferson Davis graduate from?
In 1860, how many of the eight military colleges were in slave states?
By 1862, how many men joined the Union Army?
Who was commanding a brigade from the Shenandoah Valley that was said to be a “stern disciplinarian without tolerance for human weakness”?
What did the Yankees call the day after Bull Run?
How old was McClellan when he became renown in the Mexican war?
What was the South’s principal weapon of foreign policy?
What branch of the Union military achieved some of the most important military successes?
What was the main goal of the Confederate foreign policy?
Who surrendered Fort Donelson to Grant on February 16?
The killed and wounded at Shiloh was nearly double the combined count of what battles?
On May 15, why did the Monitor prove ineffective?
What was stated in the first conscription law enacted on April 16?
What congressional act led to the creation of a national currency and altered the monetary structure of the United States?
What are the cited examples of what the 37th Congress did to change the course of national life?
Who described Lee as “cautious and weak under grave responsibility”?
How many men were killed and wounded in the Seven Days’ Battle?
What was a greater threat to the health of Civil War soldiers than enemy weapons?
What circumstance gave added force to Lincoln’s first step in the direction of an emancipation policy?
Who said that slavery was “the greatest wrong inflicted on any people”?
In 1863, where did the United States government sponsor a settlement of 453 colonists?
Who established the U.S. Military Rail Roads?
What was Antietam called by the South?
The casualties suffered at Antietam were how many more times than that at the Normandy beaches?
Who said “I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die”?
What day did Lincoln issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
Who said the Emancipation Proclamation was “an act of immense historic consequence”?