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Understanding the Confederate States of America

This quiz explores key facts and events related to the Confederate States of America, focusing on its historical context, significant figures, and relevant treaties.

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1 Confederate declarations of martial law checked attempts to secede from the Confederate States of America by some counties in ________.

2 What region does Confederate States of America belong to?

3 Who of the following was a deputy to Confederate States of America?

4 ________ (April 17, 1861; ratified by voters May 23, 1861)[13]

5 What is Confederate States of America's current status?

6 In 1861, Ernst Raven applied for approval as the ________ consul, but he held citizenship of Texas and no evidence exists that officials in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha knew of his actions.

7 On July 12, 1861 the newly formed Confederate States government signed a treaty with both the Choctaw and ________ Indian nations in the Indian Territory.

8 What is the national anthem of Confederate States of America?

9 ________ (May 6, 1861)[14]

10 The Confederate Congress responded to the ________ by formally declaring war on the United States in May 1861 — calling it "The War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America".

💡 Interesting Facts

  • more than 60% of the Confederacy's war finance came from printing money (pictured), which, along with bad military news, caused prices to increase 92 times over in the South during the American Civil War.
  • the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade.
  • the United States revenue cutter Jefferson Davis was named in 1853 for Jefferson Davis, later president of the Confederate States of America.
  • during the American Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy developed new medical programs to treat sick and injured soldiers.
  • during the American Civil War, an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee's withdrawal.
  • among Lexington, Kentucky's contributions to the American Civil War were residents U.S. First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Confederate leaders John C. Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan.
  • disputes between Confederate Generals William Hardee and John Creed Moore caused Moore to resign his commission.
  • the University of North Alabama's Rogers Hall (pictured) served as the headquarters for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1864.
  • the civil service of the Confederate States of America managed to cope with war work only because it employed African Americans.
  • the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana.
  • the last Confederate general to surrender, Stand Watie, did so in Oklahoma.
  • the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy.
  • the Mansfield State Historic Site in western Louisiana commemorates an 1864 Confederate victory by General Richard Taylor, which prevented a pending Union invasion of Texas.
  • the list of alumni of Union College in Schenectady, New York, includes one President of the United States, a Secretary of State from both the Union and the Confederacy, and numerous Congressmen.
  • the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere.
  • the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Crosses of Honor than those from any other Kentucky county.
  • William M. Walton, Attorney General of Texas, withdrew his nomination for reelection when he learned his opponent was a disabled Confederate veteran with a family to support.
  • W. Jasper Blackburn, a Republican newspaper publisher in Louisiana, was acquitted by a one-vote margin—and thus spared execution—of having printed counterfeit Confederate currency.
  • Confederate forces won the last battle at the end of the American Civil War.
  • Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War.
  • Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards.
  • Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right).
  • Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France.
  • Charles Dickens once wrote that in Civil War-era Montana, a town was to be named after Varina Davis, the first lady of the Confederate States of America.
  • Confederate president Jefferson Davis had a young mulatto ward named Jim Limber‎.
  • Anna Elinor Jones was jailed as an accused Confederate spy due to being involved in a dispute between Union generals George Armstrong Custer and H. Judson Kilpatrick.
  • Drum Barracks were built in 1862 and 1863 at a cost of US$1 million to quell pro-Confederacy sentiments in Los Angeles.
  • Kasim Reed, a 2009 Atlanta mayoral candidate, is known for keeping the battle emblem of the Confederate States of America (pictured) from being considered for inclusion on the Georgia State Flag.
  • Pauline Cushman (pictured), an actress and Union Army spy during the American Civil War, was caught posing as a Confederate soldier, but escaped hanging by three days.
  • Rickard D. Gwydir, an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation.
  • Joseph Finegan, an attorney, politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War.
  • James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia, to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War.
  • French-designed cannons, manufactured in both the North and the South, were the primary artillery weapons of the American Civil War.
  • George Julian Zolnay (pictured), the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist.
  • 42 Australians became crewmembers of Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah (pictured) when the vessel was docked outside Melbourne.
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