US History Unit 7 Civil War Quiz

A Confederate general trained at West Point who was responsible for leading troops at Harpers Ferry

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• George B. McClellan

• P.G.T. Beauregard

The bloodiest single day of battle in United States history

• the Battle of Antietam

• the Battle of Shiloh

• the Battle of Cowpens

• the Battle of First Manassas

The official order by President Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate states

• Gettysburg Address

• Enumeration Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Proclamation

The first major battle of the Civil War that was won by the Confederacy

• the First Battle of Bull Run

• the Battle of Chancellorsville

• the Battle of Fredericksburg

• the Battle of Big Bethel

Union troops that consisted primarily of African American soldiers

• 35th Michigan Infantry

• 24th Maine Infantry

• 66th Maryland Infantry

• 54th Massachusetts Infantry

A Union general responsible for training the Army of the Potomac

• P.G.T. Beauregard

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• George Custer

• George B. McClellan

A Union victory secured by cutting off a Southern city from supply lines

• the Siege of Port Hudson

• the Siege of Yorktown

• the Siege of Suffolk

• the Siege of Vicksburg

An aggressive Union general who led the North’s campaign in the West

• Winfield Scott Hancock

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George Meade

• Nathaniel Banks

Fort Sumter

• The battle that marked a turning point in the Civil War for the Union

• A decisive Confederate victory that convinced General Lee to push North

• A federal outpost in South Carolina that was attacked by Confederate troops

• The site of General Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant

Appomattox Courthouse

• The battle that marked a turning point in the Civil War for the Union

• A decisive Confederate victory that convinced General Lee to push North

• A federal outpost in South Carolina that was attacked by Confederate troops

• The site of General Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant