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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
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True or false: the Emancipation Proclamation officially abolished slavery in the United States
- True
- False
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Which civil war general later became President of the United States?
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Robert E. Lee
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George McClellan
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Ulysses S. Grant
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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"
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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
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True or false: South Carolina was the first state to declare its secession on December 20, 1860
- True
- False
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Which of these men was the President of the Confederate States of America?
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Robert E. Lee
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Alexander H. Stephens
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Jefferson Davis
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Zachary Taylor
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True or false: Several foreign nations officially recognized the Confederacy
- False
- True
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In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth?
- 1866
- 1865
- 1867
- 1864
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True or false: the Articles of Confederation was the agreement that established the Confederacy in 1861
- False
- True
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