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The Boy's War: Prologue

Total questions: 9

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

a)

a. Battle of Indiana

b)

b. Battle of Shiloh

c)

c. Battle of Gettysburg

d)

d. Battle of Fort Sumter

2.

Where was Fort Sumter located?

a)

Nashville

b)

New York

c)

Charleston Harbor

d)

Virginia

3.

3. Who did Fort Sumter belong to originally?

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

4.

Which side took Fort Sumter?

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

5.

True or False. No one had been seriously injured during the bombardment of Fort Sumter.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

True or False. No one knows exactly how many boys enlisted for either side.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

After the war, an army statistician estimated that _____________ of soldiers were boys.

a)

50%

b)

100%

c)

1%

d)

10 to 20%

8.

How do we know the boys' stories even though we do not know exactly how many boys were in the war?

a)

from television interviews

b)

from newspaper articles

c)

from magazines

d)

from firsthand accounts from letters, journals, and diaries

9.

Why was the spelling and wording so choppy from the boys for the most part?

a)

They were highly educated

b)

They were uneducated farm boys for the most part