Civil War test 1

Question 0

Artillery

Answer 0

Large powerful weapons such as cannons

Question 1

Abolitionist

Answer 1

A person who believes in ending slavery

Question 2

Assassination

Answer 2

The murder of a well know person

Question 3

Battery

Answer 3

A unit of 4 or 6 cannons to add strength and protection to the city

Question 4

Battle

Answer 4

Large combat between two armies

Question 5

Blockade

Answer 5

Closing off, using forces to block of a city or other area of traffic and communication.

Question 6

Border State

Answer 6

Slave owning states that didn’t secede form the Union

Question 7

Cartridge box

Answer 7

A leather box that carried a soldiers bullets and/or magazines

Question 8

Casualty

Answer 8

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing

Question 9

Chloroform

Answer 9

Liquid that would put soldiers to sleep during the war

Question 10

CSA

Answer 10

The 11 southern states that seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America

Question 11

Contraband

Answer 11

Goods illegally traded during wartime

Question 12

Copperhead

Answer 12

Northern democrat who agreed with the southern secession

Question 13

Deploy

Answer 13

To spears out armies and create a battle line