Q 01/05

Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?

A) Andrew Johnson

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) Ulysses S. Grant

D) James Buchanan

Answer · why

B) Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Q 02/05

What was the flour-and-water cracker issued to Union soldiers as a staple ration called?

A) Hardtack

B) Johnnycake

C) Cornpone

D) Sourdough

Answer · why

A) Hardtack

Hardtack was so tough that soldiers crumbled it into their coffee, where the weevils floated up to be skimmed off; one veteran called his army memoir ...

Q 03/05

Who served as president of the Confederate States of America?

A) Robert E. Lee

B) Joseph E. Johnston

C) Stonewall Jackson

D) Jefferson Davis

Answer · why

D) Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis, a former US secretary of war, was captured in 1865 and held for two years at Fort Monroe on a treason charge, then released without e...

Q 04/05

Which legal safeguard did Lincoln suspend early in the Civil War, letting the army jail suspects without charge?

A) Trial by jury

B) Habeas corpus

C) Freedom of the press

D) The right to bear arms

Answer · why

B) Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus was suspended in April 1861 after rioters attacked troops heading for Washington; when Chief Justice Taney ruled that only Congress had ...

Q 05/05

What name did white Southerners give Northerners who moved South to take part in Reconstruction?

A) Carpetbaggers

B) Scalawags

C) Redeemers

D) Mugwumps

Answer · why

A) Carpetbaggers

'Carpetbaggers' mocked Northerners who came South after 1865, supposedly with all they owned in a cheap carpet-cloth bag; white Southern Republicans w...