The Civil War - chapters 9-12

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Robert E. Lee

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• Stonewall Jackson

Which battle started the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Gettysburg

• Chancellorsville

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Who did President Lincoln ask to lead the Union armies, but he declined because he could not turn against his home state of Virginia?

• Stonewall Jackson

• George Meade

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

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Which Union strategy kept the Confederates from selling cotton and buying supplies?

• total war

• anaconda strategy

• naval blockade

• march to the sea

Who won the battle in 1862 between the Virginia and the Monitor?

• Both ships successfully sank the other

• Neither ship was able to sink the other

• the Virginia sank the Monitor

• Neither ship was able to sink the other

What was Lincoln's problem with General McClellan?

• McClellan was too eager to fight the enemy

• McClellan was trained as an admiral in the navy.

• McClellan was too reluctant to attack the enemy.

• McClellan was a poor organizer and trainer of soldiers.

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In which battle did 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lose their life?

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Vicksburg

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Nat Turner

• Eli Whitney

• John C. Calhoun

The Missouri Compromise

• allowed Missouri to become a state if it outlawed slavery

• created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south.

• divided the Missouri Territory into the states of Missouri and Illinois.

• allowed Missouri to become a state without Congress’s approval.

Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?

• a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

• a civil war nurse

• the wife of Robert E. Lee

• the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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