Civil War Test 2023

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

Why was the attack on Fort Sumter significant?

• It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
• The Confederacy surrendered
• General Pickett charged the Union line
• It began the Civil War

What was the name of the Union strategy that called for a 3 prong attack of the South, slowly squeezing it into surrender?

• Anaconda Plan
• Grant Plan
• March to the Sea
• Total War

All of these were part of the Anaconda Plan EXCEPT

• Take the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA
• Burn everything between Atlanta and Savannah
• Blockade Southern Ports
• Take control of the Mississippi River

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

• Bull Run
• Gettysburg
• Chancellorsville
• Appomattox Court House