SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Civil War Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
history
Instructions:
Answer 40 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Small - fast ships that delivered supplies to the Confederacy.
USS Monitor
bread riots
Jefferson Davis
blockade runners
2. Violent disturbances that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War - initially intended to express anger at the draft - the protests degraded into civil disorder direc
New York Riots
Jubal Early
Captain Henry Wirz
Jefferson Davis
3. Blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Anaconda Plan
20 slaves law
Clara Barton
General Jackson
4. Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An 'angel' in the Civil War - treated the wounded in the field.
chancellorsville tactic
USS Monitor
Clara Barton
Chattanooga
5. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
20 slaves law
Underground Railroad
conscription
Chattanooga
6. The first ironclad warship commissioned by the US Navy.....Most famous for participation in the first-ever battle against another ironclad
Andersonville
USS Monitor
General Grant
Chancellorsville
7. [aka USS Merrimack] yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into an ironclad - sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads.
New York Riots
CSS Virginia
conscription
20 slaves law
8. (N) Pope vs. (S) Lee/Jackson - This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. Result(s): Confederate victory
king cotton
Wendell Phillips
Robert Shaw
Second Manassas
9. (N) McDowell vs. (S) Beauregard/ Jackson - CSA won - 1st Battle
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
General Grant
First Manassas
General Jackson
10. Provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals
Wendell Phillips
General Sherman
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
United States Sanitary Commission
11. Denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation
Wendell Phillips
Clara Barton
Chickamauga
CSS Virginia
12. (N) Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston - Union won
General Jackson
Fredericksburg
Shiloh
20 slaves law
13. Robert E. Lee sent _______'s corps to sweep Union forces from the Valley and - if possible - to menace Washington - D.C. - hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Petersburg - Virginia
Jubal Early
chancellorsville tactic
Underground Railroad
Antietam
14. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war
General Grant
First Manassas
USS Monitor
Captain Henry Wirz
15. (N) Burnside vs. (S) Lee - southern victory
Fredericksburg
Trent Affair
Chickamauga
CSS Virginia
16. Printing paper money - but prices on necessities like food and such skyrocketed and the people rioted.
CSS Virginia
Chickamauga
inflation in the South
Anaconda Plan
17. Incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
Underground Railroad
General Sherman
Trent Affair
18. Union forces nearly broke the Confederate lines - but the Union Army made 14 unsuccessful charges against the stone wall at ________ ____________.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
19. Failed attempt by Union troops to take a sea route into the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Peninsular campaign
inflation in the South
Marye's Heights
United States Sanitary Commission
20. In Virginia where Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior army and sent Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union flank.
Peninsular campaign
blockade runners
General Sherman
chancellorsville tactic
21. Freed all slaves in the states that had seceded - after the Northern victory at the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln had no power to enforce the law.
emancipation proclamation
Second Manassas
king cotton
Chattanooga
22. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Confederates retired - Bragg claimed Union victory - boosted Union morale Result(s): Union victory
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
54th Massachusetts Infantry
General Lee
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
23. Richmond conflict about high prices of food.He offered no solution -so they turned into an angry mob.President Davis showed up - the mob dispersed
New York Riots
Captain Henry Wirz
General Sherman
bread riots
24. Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.
bread riots
Second Manassas
conscription
General Jackson
25. Marched from Atlanta to the Sea destroying everything; Total War
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
General Sherman
king cotton
CSS Virginia
26. (N) General Joseph Hooker vs. (S) General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas J. Jackson - considered by many to be Lee's greatest battle - Result(s): Confederate victory
chancellorsville tactic
Clara Barton
Chancellorsville
Peninsular campaign
27. Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war - financed the war
king cotton
General Lee
emancipation proclamation
greenbacks
28. Expression used to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry - and that North needed South's cotton.
Marye's Heights
Clara Barton
king cotton
Anaconda Plan
29. White leading commander of the first black regiment - 54th Massachusetts
Anaconda Plan
Robert Shaw
Chickamauga
Underground Railroad
30. Excused slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves from being drafted for service
General Jackson
20 slaves law
USS Monitor
54th Massachusetts Infantry
31. Commander of Confederate Army. Great leader - Lincoln wanted him as the leader of the Union Army
king cotton
Peninsular campaign
Anaconda Plan
General Lee
32. African American Union regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Antietam
Chattanooga
General Grant
33. Lee wanted to attack the North but General McClellan found a copy of Lee's plan wrapped in three cigars
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
Chancellorsville
bread riots
emancipation proclamation
34. (N) Major General Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - 'Gateway to the Lower South -' which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign. - Result(s): Union victory
Marye's Heights
Wendell Phillips
Chattanooga
Jefferson Davis
35. (N) George McClellan vs. (S) Robert Lee - Strategic northern victory - Turned tide of war in favor of north. - Bloodiest battle in U.S. History - encouraged Lincoln to give Emancipation Proclamation - and prevented Lee from invading the North
General Grant
CSS Virginia
General Jackson
Antietam
36. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Result(s): Confederate victory - CSA won - Largest battle in West - most significant Union defeat in the West
General Sherman
Chickamauga
Wendell Phillips
bread riots
37. Lincoln placed this commander at Vicksburg in command of all Union forces - slowly battered Lee's armies into submission around Richmond in 1864-1865 - and received Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Trent Affair
Shiloh
General Lee
General Grant
38. President of the Southern Confederate States after their succession from the Union - struggled to form a solid government
Peninsular campaign
Fredericksburg
Jefferson Davis
New York Riots
39. The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population - and there were food shortages - overcrowding - and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Captain Henry Wirz
Andersonville
40. One of the South's greatest generals during the Civil War - he possessed an uncanny - almost intuitive grasp of Gen. Robert E. Lee's orders - killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) when he was accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers.
General Grant
Captain Henry Wirz
General Jackson
blockade runners