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What man led the Army of Northern Virginia to shocking success during the Civil War and later became the overall leader of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
Paul Revere
Benedict Arnold
George Pickett
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On February 4th, 1861, the Confederate States of America was founded in what city?
Sarasota
Montgomery
Miami
Washington D.C.
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What man became the first and only President of the Confederate States of America?
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Johnson
John C. Calhoun
Jefferson Davis
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What American president led the Union throughout the Civil War?
Martin Van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
Franklin Pierce
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As the Civil War began, the Union enacted what isolation strategy formulated by Winfield Scott to prevent the Confederacy from gaining new supplies?
The Asp Plan
The Cobra Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Viper Plan
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Confederate troops began the Civil War by attacking what fort?
Fort Keys
Fort Benning
Fort Sumter
Fort McHenry
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The Union forces heavily disrupted Confederate supply lines through their March to the Sea, a military campaign that ended with the burning of what city?
Jackson
Memphis
Atlanta
Richmond
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What Union commander led the brutal yet effective March to Sea that resulted in Atlanta's burning?
William T. Sherman
Joseph Anderson
Joshua L. Chamberlain
Philip Sheridan
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At what Tennessee battle known for its "Hornets' Nest" formation did Ulysses S. Grant begin to distinguish himself as a Union commander unafraid of risking his men's lives?
The Battle of Vicksburg
The First Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Philippi
The Battle of Shiloh
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One of the first major army-to-army engagements of the Civil War was what 1861 conflict where Confederate forces surprisingly routed their Union opponents in Prince William Country, Virginia?
The Battle of Gettysburg
The First Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Worden Flats
The Battle of Syracuse Hill
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One of Lee's most important subcommanders was which of the following other Confederate generals who brought victory after victory throughout Virginia and was called Lee's "Old War Horse"?
Wyatt Earp
James Longstreet
A. P. Hill
Lew Armistead
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Another critical Confederate leader was what man nicknamed "Stonewall" because his troops stood firm at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Albert Johnson
Neville Johnson
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jackson
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What May 1863 conflict went down in history as one of the Civil War's bloodiest and earned a reputation as "Lee's Perfect Battle"?
The Battle of Antietam Creek
The Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Hedgely
The Battle of Cuyahoga
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What Union general commanded the Army of the Potomac during the Battle of Chancellorsville and bungled the operation so badly that he forever tarnished his reputation?
Ambrose Burnside
Marshall P. Marshall
Carlton Bass
Joseph Hooker
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What Union commander replaced Joseph Hooker as Commander of the Army of the Potomac and brought the detachment great success at battles like Gettysburg?
John Reynolds
Peter Muybridge
George Meade
Winfield Scott Hancock
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The Siege of Vicksburg resulted in the Union gaining control of what river to further strangle Confederate transport lines?
The Mississippi River
The Ohio River
The Colorado River
The Snake River
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After the Battle of Chancellorsville, what Confederate general was killed by one of his own men, thus heavily weakening the rebel cause?
P. G. T. Beauregard
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
James Longstreet
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What 1863 battle became the turning point of the Civil War as the Army of the Potomac finally forced Lee's army back to Virginia?
The Battle of Fort Dowe
The Battle of the Crater
The Second Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Gettysburg
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One of the defining moments of the Battle of Gettysburg came during the battle's second day when Confederate forces were unable to flank the Union's fishhook position by capturing what now-famous hill?
Little Bighorn
Little Round Top
Baldhead
Baskin's Peak
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What Union commander became famous for defending Little Round Top on the second day of Gettysburg?
J. B. Hood
J. L. Chamberlain
John Buford
Curtis Lowell
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Gettysburg culminated in what asinine charge where Confederate forces marched straight into the Union's defensive line?
Greenbay's Charge
Longstreet's Charge
Dobbson's Charge
Pickett's Charge
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The Confederacy was locked into the conflict when Abraham Lincoln made what piece of policy that officially freed all slaves in the South?
The Gadsden Liberation
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Four Score Clause
The Civil Liberties Act
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The Civil War battle, Merrimack vs. Monitor, was significant for being the first engagement between two examples of what types of war machines?
Hot air balloons
Submarines
Ironclad war ships.
Army tanks
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Many Union prisoners during the Civil War were sent to what Georgian camp where unsanitary conditions and active torture by the guards led to mass deaths in the war's final years?
Andersonville
Howardsburgh
Nolon's Creek
Lincolnville
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What Union officer would be promoted to lead the nation's loyalist army starting in 1864?
Ulysses S. Grant
Zachary Taylor
Dwight Eisenhower
William Henry Harrison
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What disastrous battle for Union forces in December 1862 was fought along the Sunken Wall and forced even President Lincoln to declare the conflict a "butchery"?
The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Salt Flats
The Battle of Yellow Tavern
The Battle of Sutter's Mill
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Abraham Lincoln encouraged the U.S. to see the Civil War through to the end with what famous speech that began, "Four score and seven years ago"?
The Call and Response
The Gettysburg Address
The Second Inauguration Speech
The Final Fight Speech
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The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up of Black American soldiers who fought for the Union, most notably fought on July 18th, 1863, in a bloody attempt to capture what fort?
Fort McHenry
Fort Wagner
Fort Degas
Fort Benning
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The Civil War was essentially over once Union troops captured Petersburg, the last defense before what Confederate capital?
Baton Rouge
Jackson
Richmond
Atlanta
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The Confederate military fell apart once Robert E. Lee surrendered at what historic location?
The Lee Plantation House
Yellow Tavern
Appomattox Court House
The Promontory Point
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