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American Civil War
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What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Vicksburg
Fort Sumter
Hoke's Run
Gettysburg
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
54th Massachusetts
55th Massachusetts
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
Who led the army of Northern VA?
J.E.B. Stuart
John Bell Hood
George Pickett
Robert E. Lee
First Confederate ironclad
Merrimac
Colorado
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
Cruisers
Ironclads
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Semple
Lyman Trumbull
Stephen Douglas
Orville Hickman Browning
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
anaconda plan
rattlesnake plan
cobra plan
python plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Union general
Confederate general
Turning point of the Civil War
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Stone’s River
Gettysburg
The Whig Party becomes the
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Laredo
Gettysburg
Antietam
Fort Smith
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Grant besieged and captured this city. It was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
