- Major battle in 1862 that stopped Lee's first invasion of the North.
Your answer:
Antietam
Bull Run
Andersonville
Merrimac
- Type of war in which anything - civilian or military - that could be used by the enemy was captured or destroyed.
Your answer:
Bull Run
Total war
Merrimac
Andersonville
- Southerner who was chosen to be president of the Confederate States of America.
Your answer:
Jefferson Davis
John Wilkes Booth
Winfield Scott
Anderson Ville
- Confederate prison camp in Georgia.
Your answer:
Georgia Pacific
Bull Run
Antietam
Andersonville
- Northern general who developed the Union's war plan.
Your answer:
John Wilkes Booth
Jefferson Davis
Antie Tam
Winfield Scott
- Well-known actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Your answer:
Lee Harvey Oswald
Andrew Jackson
Winfield Scott
John Wilkes Booth
- Confederate ironclad ship that battled the Union's ironclad, the Monitor, in March 1862.
Your answer:
Bull Run
The U.S.S. Constitution
Merrimac
Old Ironsides
- Document that declared all slaves free in the states that had seceded from the Union.
Your answer:
Andersonville
Emancipation Proclamation
Merrimac
Radical Republicans
- Members of Lincoln's political party who demanded that he take action to win the war quickly.
Your answer:
Emancipation Proclamation
Bull Run
Total War
Radical Republicans
- First major Civil War battle after the attack on Fort Sumter.
Your answer:
Molasses Crossroads
Andersonville
Bull Run
Antietam
- The Union victory at the Battle of Antietam gave President Lincoln the opportunity to ...
Your answer:
give the Gettysburg Address.
split the Confederacy in half.
campaign for reelection.
issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
- The Union leaders felt that to cut the Confederacy off from trade with other countries, they had to ...
Your answer:
gain control of the Mississippi River.
patrol the border of Alaska.
blockade all southern ports.
sign treaties with France and Great Britain.
- In 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union after ...
Your answer:
the secession of Texas.
the capture of Fort Sumter.
the battle of Gettysburg.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
- Many Civil War battles have two names because the ...
Your answer:
different sides always tossed a coin before the battle.
Union named battles after the nearest river and the Confederacy named battles after the nearest town.
North did not have an organized system for naming battles.
Union army and the United States government did not agree on the way to name battles.
- At the outset of the Civil War the Union had many advantages over the Confederacy, including ...
Your answer:
more cotton.
a larger population and most of the nation's natural resources and industries.
the best generals.
a stronger public desire to win.
- The members of the Democratic party who were totally against the war were called ...
Your answer:
freedmen.
Copperheads
Radicals.
Nickelodeons
- Throughout the Civil War, the Confederacy's most pressing problem was ...
Your answer:
the need for more cotton.
poor leadership by its generals.
the need for money to pay for the war.
disagreement among the leaders of the southern state governments.
- In 1863, General Lee led a Confederate invasion of the North that was stopped at the Battle of ...
Your answer:
Gettysburg.
New York City.
Atlanta.
Petersburg.
- The Union succeeded in cutting the Confederacy in half by gaining control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of ...
Your answer:
the Bulge.
Chancellorsville.
Richmond.
Vicksburg.
- The period of time for rebuilding the war-torn South became known as ...
Your answer:
Reconstruction.
total war.
the Era of Good Feelings.
Wartorn South Time.