Civil war Multiple choice

The capital of the Confederacy was located in this Virginia city:

• a. Baltimore

• b. Washington D.C.

• c. Richmond

• d. Atlanta

During the Civil War, a regiment was a unit within the :

• a. Army

• b. Navy

• c. Government

• d. Confederacy

Both the Confederate Army and Union Army consisted of three regiments - artillery, infantry, and this one:

• a. Navy

• b. Cavalry

• c. Ironclads

• d. Generals

The most common form of transportation during the Civil War was by:

• a. Horseback

• b. Foot

• c. Boat

• d. Automobile

This person joined Union soldiers in the camps of nearby battlefields to help nurse, comfort, and cook for the injured:

• a. David Farragut

• b. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• c. Harriet Tubman

• d. Clara Barton

Each of the following were traits of a border state EXCEPT:

• a. They all voted for Lincoln in the election of 1860

• b. They were all slave states

• c. They all supported the Confederacy

• d. They all supported the Union

When the Civil War broke out, President Lincoln’s main objective was to:

• a. Preserve the Union

• b. End slavery

• c. Promote trade and commerce

• d. ALL of the above

This Union general devised the “Anaconda Plan”, the name of the Union blockade strategy:

• a. Winfield Scott

• b. Ulysses S. Grant

• c. Robert E. Lee

• d. William T. Sherman

This Union general led the unsuccessful Peninsula Campaign early on in the war:

• a. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• b. George McClellan

• c. David Farragut

• d. Albert Sidney Johnston

General Lee surrendered to General Grant at this courthouse in Virginia:

• a. U.S. Supreme Court

• b. Virginia Supreme Court

• c. Appomattox Court House

• d. House of Burgesses