Civil War Section Review

Confederate General __________ earned his nickname by "standing like a stone wall"

• Robert E. Lee
• Stephen Foster
• Thomas Jackson
• George Pickett

What was the first major battle of the Civil War? 

• The First Battle of Bull Run
• The Battle of Gettysburg
• The Battle of Antietam
• The Second Battle of Bull Run

The commander of the Confederate Army was ______________, a graduate of the Military Academy at West Point

• George B. McClellan
• Stonewall Jackson
• George Pickett
• Robert E. Lee

Who assembled a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers called the Army of the Potomac?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• George B. McClellan
• Stonewall Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln

The Confederate troops forced the union army to retreat from near Richmond in what battle?

• Bull Run
• Atlanta
• Seven Days' Battles
• The Wilderness

Which battle was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and of U.S. History?

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Second Battle of Bull Run
• Vicksburg

While the two armies fought for control of the land, the Union _______________ controlled the sea. 

• Fleet 
• Army
• Air Force
• Navy

____________ were ships heavily armed with Iron.

• ironclads
• war ships
• battleships
• armadas

The monitor was designed by whom?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Joseph Brekel
• John Ericsson
• Jefferson Davis

The Union ship the Monitor, engaged the Confederate ship, the ____________ to keep the blockade together.

• Rebel Glory
• Merrimack
• Smithson
• Alabama Hart