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Which of the following happened because of the war?
a) The Federal Government grew stronger
b) The Federal Government began issuing income taxes
c) A new paper currency, the greenback, were created
d) All of the above

Who was the Confederate general who surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse?
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Robert E. Lee
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) John Wilkes Booth

What was the purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
a) to give an update of how the country was doing
b) to accept the South's surrender
c) to motivate the Union to help the war effort
d) to surrender to the South

What was another name for the South during the Civil War?
a) the Union
b) the Confederacy
c) the USA
d) America

Who was the president of the Confederacy?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Jefferson Davis
c) John WIlkes Booth
d) Abraham Lincoln

A bounty during the Civil War was
a) A reward for bringing in a criminal
b) Laundry Detergent
c) Money given to Confederate soldiers who volunteered to fight
d) Money given to Union soldiers who volunteered to fight

The new state that was created during the Civil War was
a) West Virginia
b) Kentucky
c) Maryland
d) South Carolina

The new money that was created during the Civil War was called
a) Greenbacks
b) Euros
c) Pesos
d) money

Why was the 13th Amendment necessary?
a) It freed all the slaves in the US
b) It wasn't necessary
c) It freed all slaves in the Confederacy
d) all of the above

Border States were
a) Slave states that didn't join either side
b) Slave states that seceded to the Confederacy
c) Free states that remained in the Union
d) Slave states that remained in the Union

The President of the Union was
a) Ulyssess S. Grant
b) Jefferson Davis
c) Robert E. Lee
d) Abraham Lincoln

The Union strategy to win the war was to...
a) Do nothing and let the Confederacy come to them
b) Attack their capital city, Richmond
c) Put up a naval blockade around the South, so they couldn't export their cotton.
d) Ask Mexico to help attack the South

Who assassinated President Lincoln?
a) Robert E. Lee
b) Ulyssess S. Grant
c) Lee Harvey Oswald
d) John Wilkes Booth

The Emancipation Proclamation
a) Freed all the slaves in the United States
b) Freed all the Slaves in the Confederacy
c) Freed all the slaves in the border states
d) Freed all the states in the border states and Confederacy

What was the first battle of the Civil War?
a) The Battle of Gettysburg
b) Fort Henry
c) Fort Sumter
d) The Battle of Antietam

Another name for the North during the Civil War was..
a) The Confederacy
b) The Union
c) The CSA
d) The rebels

Which of the following is NOT true
a) More than half a million soldiers were killed during the Civil War
b) About 10% of the population were enlisted in the war
c) The Union won the war
d) The Confederacy lost more men in the war, then the Union

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