Unit 11 Test: Civil War Battles

Question 1

What battle began the Civil War?

Answer 1

Fort Sumter

Question 2

What battle featured a face off between two new ironclad ships that resulted in a draw?

Answer 2

Hampton Roads

Question 3

What were the names of the two Ironclad chips that faced off in Hampton Roads?

Answer 3

U.S.S Monitor and C.S.S Virginia

Question 4

What was the first major land battle of the war?

Answer 4

Bull Run

Question 5

What battle was a shocking defeat for the Union?

Answer 5

Bull Run

Question 6

Which battle gives General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname: “The Butcher?”

Answer 6

Shiloh

Question 7

Which battle was the bloodiest single day in history with 23,000 casualties?

Answer 7

Antietam

Question 8

What does the Emancipation Proclamation achieve? What was its purpose?

Answer 8

It made the Civil War about ending slavery in the United States and kept Europe (England/France) out of the war.

Question 9

What battle was a major turning point in the war?

Answer 9

Gettysburg

Question 10

What was the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 10

Lincoln says this is a war to preserve the country.
“America is not a collection of states but 1 nation of people.”

Question 11

Was Sherman’s March to Sea successful?

Answer 11

Yes

Question 12

What was Sherman’s March to Sea?

Answer 12

Sherman’s men then marched across the the state of Georgia towards the Atlantic coast, the entire way they burned cities, stole crops and destroyed railroad lines.
This method of combat is called “Total War” meaning not only waging war against an enemy’s army but also it’s land and people

Question 13

What was the Appomattox Court House?

Answer 13

General Lee surrenders his army of Northern Virginia.

Question 14

What are the affects of the Civil War?

Answer 14

• America is reunited
• The era of Reconstruction begins in the South
• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln