The first engagement of the American Civil War, on April 12, 1861, happened at which location?
- Appomattox Court House
- Port Royal
- Fort Sumter
- Bull Run
True or false: the Emancipation Proclamation officially abolished slavery in the United States
- True
- False
Which civil war general later became President of the United States?
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
What famous phrase was said by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address?
- "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
- "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
- "solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom"
- "the better angels of our nature"
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney issued his famous ex parte Merryman legal opinion in 1861. What did it say?
- The secession of the Confederacy was illegal
- Only Congress and not the President could suspend habeas corpus
- Military tribunals could not be used to try civilians
- The death penalty was legal
True or false: South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession on December 20, 1860
- True
- False
Which of these men was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Robert E. Lee
Alexander H. Stephens
Jefferson Davis
Zachary Taylor
True or false: Several foreign nations officially recognized the Confederacy
- False
- True
In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
- 1866
- 1865
- 1867
- 1864
True or false: the Articles of Confederation was the agreement that established the Confederacy in 1861
- False
- True
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