American Civil War Quiz - 94 Trivia Questions!

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Delve into the history of the American Civil War, a pivotal conflict in U.S. history that shaped the nation and its future.

Who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia's cavalry during the American Civil War?

Jefferson
Jeb Stuart
Robert E. Lee
Theodore Roosevelt

Which US state separated from Virginia and joined the Union on June 20, 1863?

Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia

Who assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865?

The Confederate States
John Wilkes Booth
The White House
John Brown

Which historian argues that the Confederate Army could have won the American Civil War?

James Fenimore Cooper
James M. McPherson
Charles L. Wilson
John B. Hay

What city was captured by the Union Navy in 1862?

New York
New Orleans and Baton Rouge
New Orleans
San Francisco

At which battle of May 1864 did General Robert Ewell delay the advance of General Grant?

Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of Fort McHenry
The Battle of Bull Run
Spotsylvania

Who was the commander of the Union Army forces at the Battle of New Orleans in 1862?

George Washington
Benjamin Butler
Jefferson
John Brown

Who was the general who defeated General Robert E Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863?

George Washington
Robert E Lee
Charles Cornwallis
George Meade

What was the name of the Confederate fort on the coast of Georgia that was captured by the Union Army in the American Civil War?

The Confederacy's Fort McHenry
Fort Jackson
Fort McHenry
Fort Pulaski

What was the first battle of the American Civil War, also known as the Battle of Manassa?

Bull Run
Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of Spotsylvania
The Battle of Manassa

Who commanded the Union Army of the Gulf during the American Civil War?

Nathaniel P. Banks
Charles L. Van Doren
Jefferson
James Buchanan

Where did the Confederate Army surrender at the end of the American Civil War?

Fort McHenry
The Union Army
Appomattox
The Valley of the Sun

Who did Abraham Lincoln defeat in 1864 to win the US Civil War?

Union forces
Jefferson
McClellan
Lincoln's wife

How many battles were fought in the American Civil War?

More than 2,500
237
Over 325
More than 230

In which US city did anti-draft rioters attack a building in 1863?

New York
Washington
Detroit
Atlanta

At which battle of the American Civil War did General Robert E. Lee launch a series of attacks against the Union forces?

Fort Sumter
Chancellorsville
Battle of the Wilderness
Fort Henry

Who was the U.S. Minister to Britain during the American Civil War?

George Washington
Jefferson
Charles Francis Adams
Lincoln

Who was the US President at the end of the American Civil War?

Lincoln
Jefferson
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson

What war was fought between the North and the South?

American Civil War
The Great Depression
World War I
The Civil War

What city did General Sherman reach on his 'March to the Sea' in 1864?

Richmond
New York
Savannah
Atlanta

At which battle of the American Civil War was General Bragg narrowly defeated by William Rosecrans?

Stones River
Battle of the Bull Run
The Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Wilderness

In the American Civil War, who was the commander of Grant's forces in the Shenandoah Valley?

Robert E. Lee
Philip Sheridan
Charles Town
Jefferson

At which battle of 1862 did Confederate General Robert E. Bragg defeat General Don Carlos Buell?

Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of Fort Donelson
Battle of the Bull Run
Perryville

Who was the Confederate general in Texas during the American Civil War?

Kirby Smith
Jefferson Davis
George Washington
Robert E. Lee

Which US President banned the importation of slaves in 1808?

President George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John F.Kennedy

Which American historian argued that the US Civil War was caused by economic disparity between the North and the South?

Charles A. Beard
George Washington
William Henry Harrison
John R. Motley

Who was the commander of the Union Army during the American Civil War?

George B. McClellan
John Brown
Theodore Roosevelt
Jefferson

What type of fuel was used to replace whale oil during the American Civil War?

Kerosene
Petroleum
Gasoline
Wood

Which US port was blockaded by Union ironclads during the American Civil War?

Charleston
New Orleans
Baltimore
San Francisco

What was the name of the fort in Charleston, South Carolina, where the American Civil War began?

Fort Sumter
The Union Army
Fort Jackson
The Old Guard

What type of warships were used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War?

USS Enterprise
USS Constitution
Tinclads
Sloops

Who painted a portrait of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?

Mathew Brady
George Washington
Lincoln's father
Lincoln himself

At which battle of 1862 did General Grant defeat the Confederate forces?

Battle of Fort Jackson
Shiloh
The Civil War
Battle of Bull Run

Who famously lost his left arm at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863?

Gen. Stonewall Jackson
Gen. Robert E. Lee
General George Washington
Jefferson

Which political party regarded disunion as treason and would not tolerate it?

Democratic
Union
Unionist
Republican

Who was the commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the American Civil War?

Jefferson Davis
Braxton Bragg
John Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee

What was the name of the Confederate guerrilla force that fought against the Union Army in the American Civil War?

The Wilderness
The Black Horse
Quantrill's Raiders
The Wilderness Army

Which American Civil War general was nicknamed 'The Foot Cavalry'?

Stonewall Jackson
General Robert E. Lee
John S. Johnson
Charles Macomb

At which battle of the American Civil War did the Confederate Army overrun the Union Army in May 1863?

Marye's Heights
Battle of Fort Wagner
Fort Wagner
Battle of Fort Henry

Who replaced General McClellan as commander of the Union Army in the American Civil War?

Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
General George Washington
Ambrose Burnside

In which newspaper was Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation first published?

The Chicago Daily News
The Washington National Intelligencer
The Washington Times
The New York Times

The Civil War Era Digital Collection is held at which US college?

University of Pittsburgh
Gettysburg College
Virginia Tech
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

At which battle of the American Civil War did General Bragg defeat General Rosecrans?

Battle of the Big Tree
Chickamauga
Atlanta
Battle of the Wilderness

Which American art company painted the Battle of Fort Sumter in the American Civil War?

Post Scriptum
Currier and Ives
The National Gallery of Art
Watercolours

What was the name of the Union hospital ship in the American Civil War?

Redcoat
The Union Pacific
Red Rover
The Union

Which British company was the main source of arms for the Confederate States of the USA during the American Civil War?

The Royal Armoury
London Bridge
London Armoury
The Gun Company

Mary Edwards Walker was the first woman to receive what military award?

Presidential Unit Rank
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor ribbon
Bronze Star

In which state did Robert E Lee fight in the American Civil War?

Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia

Who was the Confederate President during the American Civil War?

Theodore Roosevelt
Jefferson
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln

What was the main cargo carried by the blockade runners during the American Civil War?

Cars
Cotton
Wood
Food

What book was a perceived insult to the Southern collective honor?

Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Tale of Two Cities
The Great Gatsby
The New Yorker

In the American Civil War, which river was captured by the Union Army, cutting the Confederacy in half?

Tennessee
The Sahara Desert
Mississippi River
Mississippi

What was the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War?

Antietam
The Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Appomattox

During which war did the Confederate States of America endure a blockade?

The American Civil War
Civil War
World War II
World War I

What was the name of the plan devised by General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War by blockading the Confederate ports

The Union Plan
Anaconda Plan
The Confederate Plan
The Battle of Fort Wagner

What was the name of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War?

Army of the South
Union Army
The United States Army
Army of Northern Virginia

In the American Civil War, General Ulysses Grant commanded the Union Army during the siege of which city?

Washington, D.C.
Petersburg
Charlotte
Washington

At which battle of 1863 did General Grant defeat the Confederate Army?

Fort Sumter
The Battle of the Wilderness
Union Army
Vicksburg

In which battle of 1862 did General George McClellan defeat the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia?

Peninsula Campaign
Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of the Alamo

What was the name of the black regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War?

Colored Troops
The Union Army
Union Army
Union Armies

At which battle of the American Civil War did Grant defeat Bragg's forces?

Union City
Chattanooga
Battle of Atlanta
Fort Sumter

"Which American abolitionist wrote ""The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It""?"

John Brown
Hinton Rowan Helper
Charles Dickens
James Buchanan

Who was the commander of the Union Army in the American Civil War?

Lincoln
Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
John Bell

Who led the Union Army in the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, which led to the end of the American Civil War?

John B. Hill
Jefferson
Tecumseh Sherman
Jefferson Davis

Which American Civil War battlefield was designated a National Park in 1895?

Fort Moultrie
The Civil War Battlefields
Gettysburg
The Wilderness

Who led an armed slave revolt in 1859 in the USA, which was repelled by the Confederate forces?

John Brown
The Underground Railroad
The Civil War
John F.Kennedy

The Eastern Theater of the American Civil War refers to the military operations east of which mountain range?

Appalachian Mountains
Pacific Ocean
Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River
Appalachian Trail

What type of rifles were used by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War?

Enfield
.30-06
Browning
.45 caliber

What was the Confederate capital during the American Civil War?

New York
New Orleans
Richmond
Atlanta

Which 1939 film was based on a novel by Margaret Mitchell about the American Civil War?

Gone with the Wind
The Blues Brothers
A Woman of No Importance
The Little Colonel

What system was used to exchange prisoners of war in the American Civil War?

Coins
Paroles
A slave ship
Military equivalencies

In the American Civil War, what was the term for a law requiring men to serve in the Union Army if they were not volunteers?

Conscription
Abolition
Military service
The Confederate army

Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ordeal of the Union?

Nevins
David S. Lewis
John Dickson
George Washington

What holiday celebrates the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865?

Texas Freedom Day
Juneteenth
Juneteenth and Black History Month
Thanksgiving Day

Who is the author of 'The American Civil War', a book about the war between the Union and Confederate armies?

John Grisham
David O. Russell
John Keegan
John Dickinson

In which US state did the Battle of Glorieta Pass take place in 1862?

Alabama
Tennessee
Texas
New Mexico

"Which American Civil War general was nicknamed ""Stonewall""?"

William T. Jefferson
Thomas J. Jackson
Jefferson Davis
George Washington

What type of warships were used by the Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War?

The ironclad was the most successful type of warship
A light cruiser
Gunboat
Ironclad warship

Which Confederate general was defeated by General Sherman at the Battle of Nashville in 1864?

George Washington
Robert E. Lee
John Bell Hood
Jefferson Davis

What were used to complicated naval battles in the American Civil War?

Watercraft
Gunboats
Naval mines
Guns

What name is given to those who advocated the abolition of slavery?

The Southerners
Civil Rights leaders
Blacks
Abolitionists

Which was the first newspaper to publish the news that the US Union was to secede from the Union on 20 December 1860?

The Daily News
Charleston Mercury
The Daily Telegraph
The New York Times

What term was given to soldiers who deserted the American Civil War and then returned to sign up for a second bonus?

Bunnies
Bounty hunters
Bounty jumpers
The deserters

At which battle of 1861 did the Confederate Army defeat the Union Army?

Fort Sumter
Port Royal Sound
Battle of Mobile Bay
The Battle of the Wilderness

Which American political party was founded in 1854 as a successor to the Whig Party?

Republican Party
Democratic Party
Federalist Party
Union Party

What was the name of the law passed by the US Congress in 1862 to establish land grant colleges?

Morrill Act
The Higher Education Act
Federal land grants
National College System

What type of battle is depicted in the painting 'Battle between the Land and the Sea' by Leonardo Da Vinci?

A battle between the French and the Italians
Battle of the Plains
Naval battle
Land battle

What type of rifle was used by the Union Army during the American Civil War?

The American Rifle Company
Rifle
M1850
Spencer Repeating Rifle

What was the most powerful economic class in the US South during the American Civil War?

Planter
Farming
Farm workers
Farmers

Who led the Confederate forces at the Battle of Columbus, Kentucky, in 1861?

Charles Town
Charles Sumner
Leonidas Polk
Jefferson Davis

What was the name of the diplomatic incident that averted war between Britain and the USA in 1861?

Trent affair
The Civil War
smoggy mountain
Lincoln administration

What was the cause of the American Civil War?

States' rights
Union and Confederacy
The Union's invasion
Civil wars

What was the only US state not to secede from the Union during the American Civil War?

New Mexico
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee

"Who wrote ""Why the South Lost the Civil War""?"

The Civil War
The South lost the Civil War
George Washington
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