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American Civil War
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What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Hoke's Run
Vicksburg
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
55th Massachusetts
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
54th Massachusetts
Who led the army of Northern VA?
J.E.B. Stuart
Robert E. Lee
John Bell Hood
George Pickett
First Confederate ironclad
Colorado
Merrimac
Iowa
Virginia
A constitutional guarantee that no one can be held in prison without charges being filed:
Habeas Corpus
Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.
Galleons
Ironclads
Cruisers
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
James Semple
Orville Hickman Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
rattlesnake plan
anaconda plan
python plan
cobra plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Confederate general
Union general
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Stone’s River
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
The Whig Party becomes the
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Fort Smith
Gettysburg
Antietam
Laredo
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Grant besieged and captured this city. It was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
