Flashcards
American Civil War
What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Hoke's Run
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
J.E.B. Stuart
Robert E. Lee
John Bell Hood
First Confederate ironclad
Merrimac
Virginia
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.
Cruisers
Ironclads
Galleons
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Semple
Stephen Douglas
Orville Hickman Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
python plan
rattlesnake plan
cobra plan
anaconda plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Confederate general
Union general
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Stone’s River
Chancellorsville
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
1864
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
Adams County Court House
Vicksburg 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?
slaves
robbed goods
side arms
horses
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Republican
Democratic
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
6th November 1861
19th November 1860
7th December 1861
2nd September 1860
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