Key Events and Figures in the American Civil War: A Quiz Review

1. Ch 14 Quiz 2 Review

2. What general played a critical support role in all the following Confederate victories: First Manassas, Seven Days' Battles, Second Manassas, and Chancellorsville? • Braxton Bragg • Stonewall Jackson • Robert E. Lee • J.E.B. Stuart

3. Stonewall Jackson

4. The significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Merrimac was that the • Confederates broke the Union blockade • Confederates sank two Union warships • Union completed its blockade • age of wooden ships began to come to a close

5. age of wooden ships began to come to a close

6. Which of the following statements about the Peninsular Campaign is false? • The Army of the Potomac kept advancing despite its losses • the North lost more major battles than the South • the Union army reached the outskirts of Richmond • the Southern troops were outnumbered during the campaign

7. The Army of the Potomac kept advancing despite its losses

8. What was the most significant outcome of Joseph E. Johnston's attack at Fair Oaks outside Richmond? • The Union army was routed. • Both sides suffered heavy losses • Robert E. Lee was promoted to command the army • Richmond was burned

9. Robert E. Lee was promoted to command the army

10. Which of the following battles was the first clear-cut defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia? • Battle of Chancellorsville • Battle of Fredericksburg • Battle of Gettysburg • First Battle of Manassas

11. Battle of Gettysburg

12. What famous speech did Lincoln give to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War? _____________________

13. Gettysburg Address

14. True/False • ___ The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

15. True

16. True/False • ___ Pickett's Charge was a last-ditch effort by Confederates to win at Gettysburg.

17. True

18. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ Southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade

19. A) Merrimac

20. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ Northern ironclad with a revolving gun turret

21. G) Monitor

22. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ early, unsuccessful attempt to capture the Southern capital

23. C) Peninsular Campaign

24. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ diversion of two Union armies with a small Confederate force

25. D) Valley Campaign

26. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ the South's successful defense of its capital

27. B) Seven Day's Battles

28. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation

29. E) Battle of Antietam

30. A) Merrimac • B) Seven Day's Battles • C) Peninsular Campaign • D) Valley Campaign • E) Battle of Antietam • F) Battle of Gettysburg • G) Monitor • ___ end of the South's offensive capabilities

31. ` • F) Battle of Gettysburg