1. It assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
   It attacked Washington, D.C.
2. It seceded from the Union.

In 1861, the Confederate States of America -- the Confederacy -- seceded from the Union. President Abraham Lincoln immediately told his armies to bring the rebels back into the fold.

1. Abraham Lincoln's election
   Stamp Act
2. Great Depression

In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln's election was the last straw for the South, which wanted to preserve rights particular to its way of life. It was the beginning of an incredibly bloody era.

1. William McKinley
   Jefferson Davis
2. Donald Trump

Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederacy during its short existence, from 1861 to 1865. He was a native of the South, born in Kentucky in 1808.

1. 2
   5
2. 11

At the start, there were seven states that seceded, and ultimately four more joined them, making the rebellion 11 states strong. About 9 million people lived in the rebel states.

1. cotton taxation
   states rights
2. gay rights

In the South, legislators wanted the power to do as they pleased -- they wanted powerful states rights that would overrule federal control. But as the Confederates found out, in a republic, things don't really work that way.

1. slavery
   coal mining
2. nuclear power

The Confederates were blatant in their mission to preserve slavery. Their constitution included clauses that prohibited any sort of laws that could undermine slavery in any way.

1. about 300,000
   perhaps 1 million
2. more than 3.5 million

When the South seceded, slave owners held more than 3.5 million people in bondage. Many of them celebrated the outbreak of war, but it would be years before most of them finally saw freedom.

1. He was a wealthy weapons dealer.
   He was a general.
2. He was a federal judge.

General Robert E. Lee was the South's most capable and famous commander. More than once, his outnumbered forces defeated Union troops that had the upper hand.

1. Richmond, VA
   Tampa Bay, FL
2. Kansas City, MO

At the war's outset, Montgomery, Alabama was the capital of the Confederacy. The capital was moved to Richmond, Virginia in the spring of 1861, and it remained there until the war's end.

1. true
2. false

Davis worked on a plantation in Mississippi. Just before the war broke out, he had 70 or more slaves working the cotton in his fields. So it's no surprise that he fell on the side of the Confederates.

1. no real organized economy
   huge industrial factories everywhere
2. very agricultural

Factories boomed in the North in the pre-War era. But the South was entirely reliant on agriculture … and slaves. Southern society as a whole was less advanced than in the North.

1. about 10,000
   about 300,000
2. about 900,000

Roughly 900,000 men served in the South's military. That number was about half the size of the Union Army.

1. He was a mastermind.
   He was very average.
2. Abraham Lincoln ran circles around him.

Davis was not a good war president. He squabbled over pointless details, ignored vital civil matters, and had none of the common sense of the Union's Abraham Lincoln.

1. It held the British king hostage in Richmond for the war's duration.
   The British despised Abraham Lincoln.
2. Britain relied on Southern cotton.

Britain needed Southern cotton for its sprawling textiles industry. The Confederacy figured that this was a great poker chip in terms of overall war strategy, one that would find the English aiding the South.

1. Britain had already stockpiled vast amounts of cotton.
   Britain switched to nylon.
2. Overly proper British people were appalled the world "y'all" and refused to support Southerners.

The cotton-as-leverage gambit was logical. But Britiain had warehouses full of Southern cotton already, so the country could withstand the loss of new imports, at least for a while.

1. true
2. false

War is hell, especially when there's no modern medicine. Roughly 100,000 Southern troops died in combat. About twice that number died from disease and other difficulties associated with warfare.

1. men with a law degree
   white men
2. men who had 20 or more slaves

The Confederate draft had some contentious loopholes. The most glaring was an exemption that allowed men with 20 or more slaves to avoid serving in the army -- an obvious way for the wealthy to dodge combat.

1. dodging
   trumping
2. substitution

The South allowed "substitution" process, in which draftees could pay a substitute to take their place in the army. The policy was blatantly unfair and led to all manner of corruption.

1. 10%
   30%
2. 70%

The North had about 90% of the country's manufacturing capabilities. In other words, right from the start, the South was at a huge disadvantage in terms of war production.

1. KKK
   NRA
2. Pecan Club of America

Nathan Bedford Forrest was an aggressive general who showed no mercy to his Union foes. He was also a prominent leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and the first Grand Wizard in the organization's history, thereby doubling his shame in history.

1. They rallied to the South's defense.
   It had no affect.
2. They did not want to support a slave-holding nation like the Confederacy.

When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 (two years after the war's start), the legislation effectively made it impossible for Britain and France to side with the South. Neither country wanted to be associated with a slave-holding country like the Confederacy.

1. food shortages
   yeast taxation
2. wheat blight

The Union Army strangled Southern food supplies during the war. Food was so hard to come by that a Southern "bread riot" saw people breaking into shops to steal food and other items.

1. 0
   12
2. countless

During the war, there were no giant uprisings by slaves hoping to expedite the process of emancipation. Instead, their freedom wouldn't come until the Confederacy finally collapsed.

1. It trapped Jefferson Davis in New Mexico.
   It split the South in two.
2. It spread Union lines too thin.

When Union forces triumphed at Vicksburg, they took control of the Mississippi River, effectively chopping the South in two. It was another nail in the Confederacy's coffin.

1. Battle of Gettysburg
   Battle of the Bulge
2. Battle of Chickamauga

In 1863, Confederate Braxton Brigg scored a major victory in Georgia at the Battle of Chickamauga. Some Northerners feared that their defeat might lead to even bigger losses down the road.

1. Tennessee
   Texas
2. Virginia

Battles raged all over Virginia and Tennessee during the war. Western states like Texas, however, saw comparatively little bloodshed.

1. 33
   43
2. 50

As the war claimed many thousands of Confederate soldiers, legislators kept changing the ages for conscription. By 1864, all capable men between 17 and 50 were required to report for duty.

1. true
2. false

During the war, the Confederacy attempted to prod both Missouri and Kentucky to become part of the rebellion. Neither state declared secession, and they were never in Confederate control, either.

1. free cotton
   lifetime supply of grits
2. emancipation of slaves

In 1865, a Confederate diplomat named Duncan Kenner traveled to Europe. He offered to free all of the South's slaves in exchange for foreign help, but it was far too little, far too late. The South was doomed.

1. Jefferson Davis collapsed and died.
   Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
2. Robert E. Lee surrendered.

On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army. His defeat essentially marked the end of the Confederate rebellion.