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Ken Burns' The Civil War: Episode 9
Short Answer
1. The American Civil War, was unique because it took American culture and it made “Us an ______”.
2. What happened to thousands of photographs from the war?
3. Following news of the surrender, church bells rang out in every _______________________ town.
4. Who raised the flag at Fort Sumter for the ceremony, at the end of the war
5. The name of the play, that Lincoln was going to see was called
“____________________________________”.
6. Lewis Paine was supposed to kill the _______________________________.
7. Boothe waited until there was _________________ in the play to shoot Lincoln.
8. What happened to Booth when he jumped out of the box?
9. Abraham Lincoln died on April ____, 1865
10. Abraham Lincoln was buried in the state of ________________.
11. What were John Wilkes Booth’s last words?
12. The last man killed in the war was from the state of _______________.
13. The executions of the conspirators took place on ____________, 1865.
14. In Iowa, ________ of the men eligible to fight served in the Union Army.
15. The survivors (of the war) went home, and got on with the _____________________ of living.
16. Elisha Hunt Rhodes became a Brigadier _______________ after the Civil War.
17. Sam Watkins returned home to _________________________ after the war.
18. William T. Sherman died in New York City in the winter of _______.
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19. What was Mary Chestnut never able to complete?
20. Was Jefferson Davis ever charged with treason?
21. Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to a ___________________________________.
22. George McClellan was elected Governor of _____________________.
23. Nathan Bedford Forest became the first ______________________ of the Ku Klux Klan.
24. Robert E. Lee eventually became __________________ of Washington College.
25. Ulysses S. Grant would get elected ______________ of the United States.
26. Grant was able to get out of debt by writing his ______________________.
27. The climax of the reunion was to be a re-enactment of
______________________________________.
28. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain served ______ terms as Governor of ____________.
29. Four million Americans had been _________ after four years of _______________.
Essay
30. What does the author mean, when he asks, “Did it not seem real?”
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