Flashcards
American Civil War
What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Hoke's Run
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
A first African American unit to fight a battle, to show the other soldiers that they could fight.
55th Massachusetts
54th Massachusetts
31st Infantry Regiment
30th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Who led the army of Northern VA?
George Pickett
Robert E. Lee
J.E.B. Stuart
John Bell Hood
First Confederate ironclad
Virginia
Colorado
Iowa
Merrimac
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
Galleons
Cruisers
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Semple
Orville Hickman Browning
Lyman Trumbull
Stephen Douglas
Union strategy for winning the war: blockade of Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond, VA was:
python plan
anaconda plan
cobra plan
rattlesnake plan
Ulysses S. Grant was:
Confederate general
Union general
Turning point of the Civil War
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Stone’s River
The Whig Party becomes the
Democratic
Republican
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of:
Gettysburg
Laredo
Fort Smith
Antietam
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln was elected in:
1864
1860
1863
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?
horses
slaves
side arms
robbed goods
Abraham Lincoln was the first elected member of which party?
Democratic
Republican
Jefferson Davis was elected on:
2nd September 1860
6th November 1861
7th December 1861
19th November 1860
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