Flashcards
American Civil War
What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Fort Sumter
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
54th Massachusetts
31st Infantry Regiment
Who led the army of Northern VA?
George Pickett
J.E.B. Stuart
John Bell Hood
Robert E. Lee
First Confederate ironclad
Virginia
Merrimac
Iowa
Colorado
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.
Ironclads
Cruisers
Galleons
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Orville Hickman Browning
Stephen Douglas
Lyman Trumbull
James Semple
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
cobra plan
rattlesnake plan
python plan
anaconda plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Union general
Confederate general
Turning point of the Civil War
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Stone’s River
Fredericksburg
The Whig Party becomes the
Republican
Democratic
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Antietam
Gettysburg
Fort Smith
Laredo
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was elected in:
1860
1863
1864
1861
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
Adams County Court House
Vicksburg Court House
Appomattox Court House
Confederate law that said you had to enroll in the army or military
Conscription Act
Robert E Lee was
Union general
Confederate general
According to Grant, what were surrendering Confederate soldiers aloud to keep?
robbed goods
side arms
horses
slaves
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Republican
Democratic
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
7th December 1861
2nd September 1860
6th November 1861
19th November 1860
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