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Unit 5 Part 2 Exam

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What group in South Carolina DID NOT debate the issue of secession?

a)

Warhawks

b)

Secessionists (fire-eaters)

c)

Cooperationists

d)

Unionists

2.

What does the word secession mean?

a)

to stay apart of

b)

to join along with

c)

to break away from

d)

to destroy

3.

What document was issued by South Carolina December 20, 1860, officially announcing the states wish to leave the Union?

a)

Reconstruction Amendments

b)

Ordinance of Nullification

c)

Ordinance of Reparations

d)

Ordinance of Secession

4.

Larger Population?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

5.

Fought a defensive war?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

6.

More railroad mileage?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

7.

Better military leaders?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

8.

Abundance of war supplies?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

9.

Knowledge of land and waterways?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

10.

More industrial (factories etc.) power?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

11.

Short supply lines?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

12.

Navy?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Advantage

b)

Northern (Union) Advantage

13.

Which side chose to fight a defensive war?

a)

Southern (Confederate) Strategy

b)

Northern (Union) Strategy

14.

Which side chose to fight an offensive war?

a)

Southern (Union) Strategy

b)

Northern (Union) Strategy

15.

Blockading Ports and Harbors?

a)

Southern (Union) Strategy

b)

Northern (Union) Strategy

16.

Which side chose to fight until their enemy gave up (attrition)?

a)

Southern (Union) Strategy

b)

Northern (Union) Strategy

17.

Which side wanted to control the Mississippi River and their enemies trade routes?

a)

Southern (Union) Strategy

b)

Northern (Union) Strategy

18.

During the American Civil War, why did the Southern states import most of their supplies?

a)

it was less dangerous

b)

the Union destroyed Southern factories

c)

it would help the South save money

d)

the South did not have many factories for making supplies

19.

Sherman's "March to the Sea" is the best example of which type of military strategy?

a)

"mobile war"

b)

"guerrilla warfare"

c)

"trench warfare"

d)

"total war"

20.

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired on April 12, 1861"

a)

Battle of Fort Wagner

b)

Battle of Fort Sumter

c)

Battle of Bull Run

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

21.

What South Carolina port became the center of operations for the Union blockade on the Atlantic coast?

a)

Port Lucia

b)

Port Charles

c)

Port Charleston

d)

Port Royal

22.

Who was the former slave who stole the Confederate steam boat the Planter?

a)

Robert Smalls

b)

Denmark Vesey

c)

Fredrick Douglas

d)

Dred Scott

23.

What effect did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation have on the the soldiers and citizens in the Northern states?

a)

had no effect at all

b)

made the people of the north angry

c)

it gave them a true (moral) reason to continue the war

d)

it made many want to surrender

24.

Which two major battles saw the South try to invade the North?

a)

Gettysburg and Vicksburg

b)

Vicksburg and Antietam

c)

Antietam and Gettysburg

d)

Sharpsburg and Antietam

25.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson received his nickname at this first land battle of the American Civil War?

a)

1st Battle of Bull Run

b)

2nd Battle of Bull Run

c)

Battle of Fort Sumter

d)

Battle of Secessionville

26.

This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

a)

Battle of Antietam

b)

Battle of Vicksburg

c)

Battle of Gettysburg

d)

Battle of Fort Wagner

27.

Name the African American Union regiment that fought and died with honor at the Battle of Fort Wagner in South Carolina?

a)

23rd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment

b)

2nd Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Pennsylvania

c)

54 Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

d)

101st Airborne Division

28.

The Housatonic was an Union ship and it became the first ship to ever be sunk by an enemy submarine. Name that submarine.

a)

H.L.Hunley

b)

Pioneer

c)

American Diver/Pioneer II

d)

Endeavor

29.

What was the job of Southern "blockade runners" during the American Civil War?

a)

to seek and destroy Union ships

b)

to spy on Union ships

c)

to attack Union forts

d)

to bring goods into and out of the harbor

30.

Why was Columbia, South Carolina a prime target for Sherman and his army?

a)

It was the capital of the state where secession started

b)

It was the capital of the South

c)

It was the largest city in the South

d)

It was the command center for the Confederate Army

31.

Why is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia important?

a)

It is where the war started

b)

It was the location of the deadliest battle during the Civil War

c)

It is where Abraham Lincoln made a famous speech

d)

It is where the war ended and Lee surrendered to Grant

32.

The American Civil War is the deadliest war in American History, what was the number one killer of men?

a)

bullets

b)

starvation

c)

boredom

d)

disease