Why did Sherman burn Atlanta and destroy a large portion of the state of Georgia? 

How many enslaved people were immediately freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?

What motivated Santos Benavides’s loyalty to the Confederacy?

What was one reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862?

What is the significance of the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865?

Which of the following best describes the significance of the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861?

Why did many wealthy landowners in the Rio Grande Valley support the Confederacy?

How did General Ulysses S. Grant treat the Confederate soldiers after their surrender?

What was the last battle of the Civil War fought on the banks of the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Texas?

What play was being performed at Ford’s Theatre on the night of Lincoln’s assassination?