Civil War Test Review

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Last Name

This regiment consisted mostly of free African Americans and led a heroic charge on Ft Wagner in which almost half were killed, wounded, or captured.

• 54th Massachusetts Infantry
• 200th Virginia Naval Brigade
• 101st Missouri Airborne

This southerner was a supporter of the Confederacy, and was the man who assassinated Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• John Wilkes Booth

In Sherman's march across the South, he practiced total war. Total war is

• destroying civilian and economic resources
• only attacking military targets
• going out of your way to avoid civilian property

Which battle was the turning point for the Civil War?

• Battle of Ironclads
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg

What was Abraham Lincoln's main purpose in writing "The Gettysburg Address"?

• dedicate a cemetery and honor the Native Americans who lived there
• dedicate a cemetery and honor the soldiers who fought and died there
• use the battle as a reason to abolish slavery and free all enslaved people

The single bloodiest DAY in the Civil War took place at the Battle of

• Appomatox
• Antietam
• Gettysburg

Why was the attack on Fort Sumter significant?

• It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
• General Pickett charged the Union line
• It began the Civil War

What was the name of the Union strategy that called for a 3 prong attack of the South, slowly squeezing it into surrender?

• Anaconda Plan
• Constrictor Plan
• Total War