Flashcards
American Civil War
What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Hoke's Run
Fort Sumter
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
31st Infantry Regiment
55th Massachusetts
54th Massachusetts
Who led the army of Northern VA?
J.E.B. Stuart
John Bell Hood
George Pickett
Robert E. Lee
First Confederate ironclad
Colorado
Virginia
Merrimac
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.
Cruisers
Ironclads
Galleons
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Orville Hickman Browning
Lyman Trumbull
James Semple
Stephen Douglas
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:
Confederate general
Union general
Turning point of the Civil War
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Stone’s River
The Whig Party becomes the
Democratic
Republican
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Gettysburg
Laredo
Antietam
Fort Smith
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was elected in:
1864
1860
1861
1863
Grant besieged and captured this city. It was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
General Robert E. Lee surrendered here on April 9, 1865 - The Civil War was over
Appomattox Court House
Vicksburg Court House
Adams County Court House
Confederate law that said you had to enroll in the army or military
Conscription Act
Robert E Lee was
Confederate general
Union general
According to Grant, what were surrendering Confederate soldiers aloud to keep?
horses
slaves
robbed goods
side arms
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Republican
Democratic
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
7th December 1861
19th November 1860
6th November 1861
2nd September 1860