chapter:question
8:In a final message to Congress, on December 3, 1860, who surprised some of his allies with a firm denial of the right of secession?
8:The constitution contained a precedent what type of amendment: Article V, which prohibits any change in the equal representation of each state in the Senate?
8:At Fort Sumter, on April 14, 1861, the American Flag came down. Which flag then rose over Fort Sumter
9:Which ironclad?s hull survived the intact and was ready for it?s subsequent conversion into the famous C.S.S Virginia?
9:On May 20, 1862, delegates unanimously enacted an ordinance of secession. Meanwhile the Tennessee legislature short-circuited the convention process by adopting what?
9:Who was appointed as commander of the pro-southern militia?
10:What man was appointed the Confederate Chief of Ordinance in April 1861, and faced with the impossible task of arming the Confederate military?
10:Just after the defeat at Bull Run, what did Union Congress authorize to form in hopes of revamping the leadership of their military?
10:In his letter to Congress on July 4, 1861, what did Lincoln claim his stand on slavery at that point was?
11:Which battle prompted the term Black Monday?
11:Which Union commander overstepped his authority issuing an emancipation edict in 1861?
11:Which southern commissioners were arrested by the U.S. government from aboard the British steamer the Trent, nearly causing a U.S. war with Great Britain?
12:What was the primary task for the Union?s Navy in 1861?
12:What was the name of the Union Warship that defeated the Confederate warship, C.S.S. Virginia?
12:Who decided to redeem the Union Navy?s reputation after its failure to intercept the Confederate warships before they reached Havan, to drop off the diplomats?
13:Who was the highest ranking field officer of the Confederacy?
13:Who forced his own army resignation in 1854 due to alcohol drinking problems?
13:What slang term was used for the contemporary expression for experiencing combat?
14:What was the price to higher a substitute for your position in the war in 1863?
14:Who was the provost Marshall of the Richmond district that created an efficient but ruthless corps of military police?
14:How many men in the Confederate Army were lost from death or wounds in 1862?
15:Which ethnic group was blamed for the rampant Confederate inflation than any other group?
15:For each Union or Confederate soldier that died in combat, how many died of disease?
15:Who was the first American woman to earn a M.D.?
16:Which party first coined the term copperhead?
16:What was Halleck?s first order to General Grant as general in chief? (502)
16:What percentage of Republicans voted for the confiscation act in 1862?
17:Who established the U.S. Military Rail Roads in response to mounting logistic problems?
17:Which former quartermaster was, worth his weight in gold and eventually was promoted from to division commander?
17:Which military corps speed and efficiency prompted the motto, The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer?
18:What was the date of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation?
18:In May 1862 what South Carolina slave commandeered a dispatch boat in Charleston Harbor and ran it out to the blockading fleet?
18:What warship was captured in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil in October 1864 after destroying 38 American merchant vessels?