Chapter 9, Section 2 Quiz

The bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War, and in American history is still the Battle of __________?

• Gettysburg

• First Bull Run

• Shiloh

• Antietam

The Battle of First Bull Run turned into a victory for __________?

• Union troops

• Confederate troops

• Great Britain

• France

Who won the battle at Second Bull Run?

• Confederate troops

• Union troops

• Neither side

• Great Britain

Which one of the following is significant about Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It transformed the war from a conflict over voting corruption in the 1860 presidential election into a war to make Lincoln the official victor of the 1860 election.

• It transformed the war from a conflict into a civil war.

• It transformed the war from a conflict over preserving the Union into a war to end slavery.

• It did not really transform the war at all. No black troops joined the Union army after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?

• All enslaved persons everywhere.

• All enslaved persons in the North.

• All enslaved persons in rebel states that were NOT under Union control.

• Only enslaved persons in the border states that the Union army occupied.

It was clear that a large, well-trained army would be needed to defeat the South after the Union defeat at __________?

• Fort Donelson

• New Orleans

• the Battle of Antietam

• the First Battle of Bull Run

By the spring of 1862, the Union navy had sealed off every major Southern harbor along the Atlantic coast, except for Charleston, South Carolina, and __________?

• Corinth, Mississippi

• New Orleans, Louisiana

• Wilmington, North Carolina

• Yorktown, Virginia

Early on the morning of April 6, 1862, Confederate forces launched a surprise attack on Grant's troops who were camped about 20 miles north of Corinth, Mississippi, near a small church named _________?

• Antietam

• Murfreesboro

• Shiloh

• Stonewall

When and where did the Union Army and Navy get its first victories?

• at New Orleans on April 25, 1862

• at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862

• at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862

• at Shiloh on April 6 and 7, 1862

One of the biggest disasters of the war took place under the command of General George B. McClellan. It took place in the spring of 1862 when McClellan wanted his men ferried down to the Yorktown peninsula. What was this campaign called?

• the Valley Campaign

• the Peninsular Campaign

• the Mud March

• the Kentucky Campaign