Civil War Test

Question 1

Border states

Answer 1

States that border north and south

Question 2

Blockade

Answer 2

Blocking ships from coming in

Question 3

Iron clad

Answer 3

Ships covered with iron

Question 4

Total war

Answer 4

A war where everything was destroyed including everyone who followed the military

Question 5

Appomattox court house

Answer 5

The town where the south signed a treaty of surrendering

Question 6

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 6

The slaves became free in the area that rebelled against the union

Question 7

13 amendments

Answer 7

Slavery Is illegal

Question 8

Jefferson Davis

Answer 8

President of the Confederacy

Question 9

StonewallJackson

Answer 9

General known for his bravery died at the battle of Chancellorsville

Question 10

Georgia B McClellan

Answer 10

General in chief of the Union Army that gets fired by Lincoln

Question 11

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 11

Head of the union army

Question 12

David Farragut

Answer 12

Naval officer who overtook New Orleans

Question 13

Robert E lee

Answer 13

Commander of the confederate army

Question 14

William Sherman

Answer 14

The general who waits total war

Question 15

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 15

Shot Abraham Lincoln

Question 16

54th Massachusetts

Answer 16

Unit in the army made up of African Americans fighting against the south

Question 17

Merrimac versus monitor

Answer 17

An ironclad ship made by the south and the monitor is a ship made by the north the monitor made the South Shepherd retreat

Question 18

Bull run

Answer 18

First real battle of the Civil War and confederacy one and Lincoln had to make 1,000,000 more trips to in the army

Question 19

Anteitem

Answer 19

McClellan had all the information he needed to beat lee and the confederate army but he let them go once he thought he won

Question 20

Gettysburg/Spicket charge

Answer 20

13,000 Confederate soldiers attacked Cemetery Hill Lee retreated but they didn’t follow him

Question 21

Siege at Vicksburg

Answer 21

They surrounded the south causing them to starve that they were two were tree and the north gain control of the Mississippi River

Question 22

Why did people bring picnic baskets to the first battle of the bull run? What happened?

Answer 22

They thought that this battle would be the one & only battle that would defeat the south. But the battle was very bloody and deadly and cause the north an need better army strategies

Question 23

Why did Lincoln fire McClellan

Answer 23

McClellan received the information he needed in order to fight Lee and the confederacy and if he destroyed their army it would have been a very important victory for the north but since he did not defeat Lee’s army they re treated and Lincoln fire him

Question 24

Why was the seeds of Vicksburg successful for the north

Answer 24

The northern army wanted to take control of this area so they surrounded the city preventing any supplies from people going in eventually the people were starving and surrender to the north giving them complete control over the Mississippi

Question 25

What was grants plan for total war

Answer 25

He thought the only way to defeat the south was to destroy their economies And their military resources so they planned a total war in order to destroy both their military and their belongings

Question 26

How did Grant Street we and the confederacy at Appomattox courthouse

Answer 26

He was very kind to them allowing them to sign a treaty and go home

Question 27

New three advantages the North had at the onset war

Answer 27

Manufacturing to make supplies railroad had a strong navy

Question 28

Name three advantage the south had

Answer 28

Home grounded advantage better soldiers better officer

Question 29

What was the immediate effect of the emancipation proclamation

Answer 29

Slaves in the Confederacy were freed canceled the fugitive slave law and gave the Union troops renewed spirit

Question 30

What is the first line of the Gettysburg address

Answer 30

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal