1. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Loony Legislation Nitty-gritty Nuggets of Knowledge “General”ly Bombastic Battles Wacky Women of War

2. Question #1 What is the legislation that awarded the proceeds from public land sales for college lands?

3. Answer #1 Land Grant College Act

4. Question #2 What is the legislation in which the government granted 160 acres to any settlers promising to improve the land?

5. Answer #2 Homestead Act

6. Question #3 What is the political group that supported having black troops?

7. Answer #3 Radical Republicans

8. Question #4 What year was the National Banking Act passed?

9. Answer #4 1863

10. Question #5 In which court case did Lincoln declare that trying people in military courts was unconstitutional?

11. Answer #5 Ex Parte Milligan

12. Question #6 What nationality were the rioters in the New York Draft Riot?

13. Answer #6 Irish

14. Question #7 What poisonous snake was the Northern dissenters named after?

15. Answer #7 Copperheads

16. Question #8 What did North Carolinians who were opposed to the form?

17. Answer #8 Order of the Heroes of America

18. Question #9 Who was the last general to surrender?

19. Answer #9 Texas general Kirby Smith

20. Question #10 What did John Wilkes Booth shout after shooting President Lincoln?

21. Answer #10 “Sic semper tyrannis”

22. Question #11 Who was appointed commander of all Union armies by Lincoln?

23. Answer #11 General Grant

24. Question #12 Where did General Lee finally surrender?

25. Answer #12 Appomattox Court House

26. Question #13 Which general carried the Atlanta Campaign, burning down the city?

27. Answer #13 General Sherman

28. Question #14 Which former general ran for president in the election of 1864 against President Lincoln?

29. Answer #14 McClellan

30. Question #15 What army did General Lee command?

31. Answer #15 The army of Northern Virginia

32. Question #16 In what battle did Union general George H. Thomas’ army destroy the Confederate’s Army of Tennessee in December 1864 during the Civil War?

33. Answer #16 Battle of Nashville

34. Question #17 Where did Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant launch a disastrous assault on Confederate positions?

35. Answer #17 Cold Harbor

36. Question #18 Which battle was a fierce hand to hand combat in dense woods in which it was General Lee’s last offensive?

37. Answer #18 Battle of the Wilderness

38. Question #19 Which battle did the Confederates lead a disastrous front assault on the well- entrenched Union positions in November 1864?

39. Answer #19 Battle of Franklin

40. Question #20 What was the series of attacks in Virginia by Union general Ulysses S. Grant and entrenched Confederate positions during May 1864

41. Answer #20 Battle of Spotsylvania

42. Question #21 In what field did women have a chance to directly serve in the war effort?

43. Answer #21 Nursing

44. Question #22 Who was the woman who treated soldiers on the battlefields?

45. Answer #22 Clara Barton

46. Question #23 What government department employed 447 women during the years of the Civil War?

47. Answer #23 The United States Treasury

48. Question #24 Southern magazines told women to be models of what for men?

49. Answer #24 Purity

50. Question #25 Who were the two women who worked as spies for the Confederacy?

51. Answer #25 Belle Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow