Civil War Trivia Questions
What was the American civil war?
A: The American Civil War was a civil war in the
United States fought from 1861 to 1865.
The Union faced secessionists in how many
Southern states?
A: Eleven.
The eleven states grouped together as the what?
A: Confederate States of America.
Among the 34 U.S. states in January 1861, how
many Southern slave states individually declared
their secession from the U.S. and formed the
Confederate States of America?
A: Seven.
War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates
did what?
A: They attacked the U.S. fortress Fort Sumter.
The Confederacy was never diplomatically
recognized by whom?
A: Any foreign country.
The states that remained loyal including Border
States where slavery was legal, were known as
the what?
A: Union or the North.
The war ended with the surrender of what?
A: All the Confederate armies.
The war had its origin in what factious issue?
A: Slavery.
Four years of intense combat left how many
soldiers dead?
A: 620,000 to 750,000.
More soldiers died in the civil war than what
two other wars combined?
A: World War I and World War II combined.
In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans,
led by Abraham Lincoln, supported what?
A: Banning slavery in all the U.S. territories.
The Southern states viewed this as a violation
of their what?
A: Constitutional rights and as being part of a
plan to eventually abolish slavery.
Who won the 1860 presidential election?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
But before his inauguration, seven slave states
with cotton-based economies formed what?
A: The Confederacy.
Lincoln's March 4, 1861 inaugural address
declared that his administration would not do
what?
A: Initiate a civil war.
The Confederates assumed that European countries
would do what?
A: Intervene, but none did.
No European countries recognized what?
A: The new Confederate States of America.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest
true what?
A: Industrial wars.
On April 26, 1865, General Joseph E. Johnston
surrendered nearly 90,000 men of the Army of
Tennessee to whom?
A: Major General William T. Sherman.
It proved to be the largest surrender of
Confederate forces, effectively what?
A: Bringing the war to an end.
