Civil War

Loyalties remained divided in the border states. Border states are --

• slave states that did not secede

• free states that shared a border with slave states

• new states that choose to be free states

• none of the above

Who was not part of the South?

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S Grant

• General Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E Lee

What happened when the Ironclads, The Merrimac and The Monitor, fought in a battle?

• The Union introduced a new weapon called the gunblazer

• The Confederacy used an woodenclad gunboat

• The two ironclads fought for 3 hours and there was no clear winner

• The Union fleet of ironclads defeated the Confederate ironclads

What Union general forced Lee's army to retreat at Antietam?

• George McClellan

• Andrew Johnson

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

What document freed enslaved people in areas that were fighting the Union?

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Wade-Davis Bill

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Compromise of 1860

An attack that is designed to destroy the enemy's army, its resources, and the people’s will to fight is called

• guerilla warfare

• a blockade

• envelopment

• total war

What social reformer became head of the Union army nurses?

• Dorothea Dix

• Susan B. Anthony

• Clara Barton

• Elizabeth Blackwell

What state was placed under martial law after southern sympathizers destroyed railroads and telegraph lines?

• Kentucky

• Maryland

• Delaware

• Missouri

Robert E. Lee surrendered at --

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Appomattox Courthouse 

• Shiloh

What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War? 

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Fredericksburg