Civil War FAC #2

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
• 300th Tennessee Volunteers

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

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• John Wilkes Booth
• General U.S. Grant

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
• never taking prisoners

Which battle was the turning point for the Civil War?

• Battle of Chancellorsville
• 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
• dedicate a school in memory of the soldiers who died on the battlefield
• 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
• Bull Run
• Antietam
• Gettysburg

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender and end the Civil War?

• Bull Run
• Gettysburg
• Chancellorsville
• Appomattox Court House

What profession grew substantially with the help of women's participation, especially Clara Barton, during the Civil War?

• Banking
• Nursing
• Governing
• Cooking

Which event took place less than a week after Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

• Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia
• President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected to his second term
• President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
• The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the U.S. was ratified

After firing many generals for failure in the battlefield, Lincoln promoted which general from leader of the western Union army to commander over all Union forces?

• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln