Quiz
Due to some interest evidenced by you strange people I present the first two quizes that I've had in my American Military History Class. Yah'll can email me your answers.
1 & 2. Who were the two major American generals in the Mexican War?
3. What President sent them into that war?
4. Who was the leading Mexican general?
5 & 6. The decisive campaign of the war went from __________________(place) to _________________(place)?
7. What future Confederate general performed quite effectively during that campaign?(Two possible answers)
8. The war ultimately ended with ratification of _____________________.
9. After the Mexican War, many US Army smoothbore muskets were replaced by?
10. What new projectile made those newer weapons even more effective?
1. Between Lincolns November 1860 election and his March 1861 inauguration, how many southern states seceded?
2. Who was the US President during that time?
3. Lincoln maneuvered the Confederates into firing the first shot of the Civil war by threatening to resupply_______________________? (BONUS: What was the name of the ship used?)
4.The Union's two Civil War Secretaries of War were ______________________ and ______________.
5. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
6. What was Grant's first significant success in the West?
7. What was Lee's first major campaign in the East?
8. The bloody battle at Sharpsburg MD., also was known as the Battle of _____________________.
9. In April 1862 Grant almost lost his army when it was surprised at the two day Battle of _____________________.
10. In December 1862, Lee's army slaughtered Union troops charging up Marye's Heights at the Battle of ___________________________.
BONUS: What border state did Lincoln regard as most critical to Union success?
1 & 2. Who were the two major American generals in the Mexican War?
3. What President sent them into that war?
4. Who was the leading Mexican general?
5 & 6. The decisive campaign of the war went from __________________(place) to _________________(place)?
7. What future Confederate general performed quite effectively during that campaign?(Two possible answers)
8. The war ultimately ended with ratification of _____________________.
9. After the Mexican War, many US Army smoothbore muskets were replaced by?
10. What new projectile made those newer weapons even more effective?
1. Between Lincolns November 1860 election and his March 1861 inauguration, how many southern states seceded?
2. Who was the US President during that time?
3. Lincoln maneuvered the Confederates into firing the first shot of the Civil war by threatening to resupply_______________________? (BONUS: What was the name of the ship used?)
4.The Union's two Civil War Secretaries of War were ______________________ and ______________.
5. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
6. What was Grant's first significant success in the West?
7. What was Lee's first major campaign in the East?
8. The bloody battle at Sharpsburg MD., also was known as the Battle of _____________________.
9. In April 1862 Grant almost lost his army when it was surprised at the two day Battle of _____________________.
10. In December 1862, Lee's army slaughtered Union troops charging up Marye's Heights at the Battle of ___________________________.
BONUS: What border state did Lincoln regard as most critical to Union success?