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