Question 1: At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln said that his men would be serving for A) 90 days. B) four or five battles. C) 4 years. D) 12 months. E) 4 minutes.
Question 2: The First Battle of Bull Run A) caused the southern army to increase twofold. B) convinced the Moon to join the Confederacy. C) increased the South's overconfidence. D) allowed the Union to rout the Confederacy three days later. E) showed the military genius of McClellan.
Question 3: The major flaw of McClellan was A) he tended to drink to much, and his appearance was rather ragged. B) he tended to use troops too much, causing unnecessary deaths. C) his wife constantly nagged him about the amoral side of his job. D) he didn't like using troops to much, and tended to be overly cautious. E) he wore a pink shirt and pink pants, and was consequently easily picked out by enemy snipers.
Question 4: The Peninsula Campaign A) was the start of total war against the Confederacy. B) was an attempt to take Richmond and end the war quickly. C) had to be pushed back a couple days after it was found out that one of the forces had read their compass wrong and attacked Canada instead. D) was the biggest naval event in the Civil War. E) forced the Union to retreat to Canada.
Question 5: Even though the Union didn't win the Battle of Antietam, it allowed Lincoln to A) pass the Emancipation Proclamation B) easily destroy southern supply lines. C) muster the support he needed to win the next election. D) receive important deliveries of Snapple and EasyMac from foreign suppliers. E) continue pretending that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery at all.
Question 6: The Emancipation Proclamation freed A) slaves in border states. B) all slaves. C) Han Solo from the carbonite. D) slaves in confederate states. E) any slave who could prove that they were, in fact, a slave.
Question 7: The black soldiers in the Union army A) fought among themselves too much to be used. B) formed the band N'Vasion. C) were prevented from fighting. D) were mainly used as cannon fodder. E) were a huge weapon for the Union in allowing the promotion of their antislavery push.
Question 8: Lee invaded the North because A) he wanted to capture Washington D.C. B) he wanted to cut Northern supply lines and distract the North from Jackson's movements. C) he preferred Chick-Fil-A to KFC. D) he wanted to plant pro-South propaganda in the North. E) he wanted the North's Peace movement to strengthen and to encourage other countries to intervene.
Question 9: The Union's victory at the Battle of Vicksburg was important because A) it stopped an invasion of Ohio by the Confederates. B) it gave the winner of the war another place they could use for tourism after the war. C) it stopped Northern peace movements and it cut a Southern supply line. D) it destroyed the South's entire naval force. E) it brought the immediate surrender of about 6,000 southern troops.
Question 10: The Battle of Gettysburg was A) a Southern loss. B) the northern most point the South ever got up to in the Civil War. C) the last real chance for the South to win the Civil War. D) all of the above. E) none of the above.
Question 11: The "Copperheads" were A) Communists. B) peace-loving Northern Democrats. C) abolitionists. D) supporters of strong punishments towards the South. E) Republicans who didn't like Lincoln.
Question 12: In the Election of 1864, Lincoln ran agaisnt A) McClellan B) Vallandigham C) Grant D) Chase E) Clinton
Question 13: Sherman's March was most famous for A) its use of experimental technology. B) its brutal methods. C) the number of slaves that defended their master's property. D) its nonviolent nature. E) being the first battle ever to be made into a motion picture.
Question 14: Even though the Union won the Civil War, they lost a very important item, their A) trade power, because everything they traded could no longer be produced efficiently. B) power in the federal goverment, because Lincoln made some big mistakes in handling the war. C) reputation in the world, because they needed to kill so many of their fellow kinsmen. D) future leaders, as they were all dead. E) Doritos, because Sherman accidently destroyed the factory during his march.
Question 15: When Confederates heard about the death of Lincoln, they were initally overjoyed, but later upset when they realized A) any person who committed crimes against the South would just blame it on Lincoln. B) Andrew Johnson wanted to kill every Confederate army member. C) Lincoln would have been lenient with them, while the rest of the Union wouldn't. D) England thought that Lincoln was killed by Davis, and was about to blockade the South. E) they wouldn't be able to get Lincoln and Davis to do a duet album.