NS-2 Naval History Chapter 4: The Civil War

What was Farragut referring to as torpedoes in the Battle of Mobile Bay?

After the CSA Navy annihaleted the whaling industry, what resource discovered in PA in 1858 replaced whale oil?

Name the 2 forts Farragut had to get past under heavy fire in order to capture New Orleans

The Union claimed two great victories on July 4, 1863. Gettysburg took 3 days. This other victory took 13.5 months.

While the Union Navy blockaded Norfolk, McClellan planned to take the Army up the peninsula to capture what city??

What was unique about the 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads?

Union CAPT John Winslow finally ended CSS Alabama's reign of terror w/ a ship to ship dual off Cherbourg. Name the ship

What 1860 major political event spurred the Southern states to break away from the Union?

What was the name of the world’s first true submarine warship, an ill-fated vessel that sunk the USS Housatonic?  

What was the name of the Navy's first hospital ship, used in the Civil War?

What was the only remaining southern port open after the Battle of Mobile Bay?

What naval tactic did the Union Navy use to take Port Royal SC and Jacksonville, FL?

What state started the American Civil War?

When southern cotton became unavailable, from whom did the North get their cotton?

How were Civil War naval leaders David Porter and David G. Farragut related?

Why did England and France fail to align with the South as Jefferson Davis had expected?

Which of the following was not a strength of the CSA heading into the war?

Name the designer of the USS Monitor.

This package of five bills ushered by Henry Clay averted immediate slave/free questions and admitted California as free

Who won the Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862?

What prompted the British and French to decide definitively in 1862 NOT to support the CSA?

Union gunboats again protected Grant's flank in this bloody victory in southern Tennessee in April 1862

The American Civil War when rebels fired on what Charleston fort?

Jeff Davis figured Union blockades would anger what two major foreign trading partners of CSA?

Name the Union gunboat largely responsible for enabling Pope to take Island #10 on the Mississippi River.

What Union victory finally gave them full control of the Mississippi River, cutting off support from the west?

Who was Jefferson Davis' Secretary of the Navy?

Which 1865 Constitutional amendment abolished all slavery in the US?

What was the Union Navy’s strategy at the beginning of the war?

What future US president’s first Civil War victories were joint Army-Navy river operations in upper Tennessee?

What 1854 legislation left the decision of slavery to the residents of the new states?

Who was Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy?

Before the USS Monitor arrived, how many of the Union blockaders had the CSS Virginia taken out?

Where did Lee meet McClellan in the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War?

Who provided the South with most of their supplies (at a much inflated price)? 

The Confederates designed the ironclad CSS Virginia with one purpose in mind. What was that?

These were cigar-shaped Confederate semi-submersibles, covered with iron plating, and fitted with a spar torpedo.

Raphael Semmes was the captain of the CSA's most successful raider. What was the ship's name?

Who said, (paraphrasing), "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"

The last rebels to surrender did so on November 8, 1861 in Liverpool, England. It was this Confederate ship.

Name the Union General credited with defeating Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg

True or False. The Emacipation Proclamation freed all slaves when it was announced on September 22, 1862.

What did Abraham Lincoln announce on September 22, 1862?

In 1861, the USS San Jacinto stopped this British steamer and forcibly removed Confederate diplomats headed to Europe.

What naval officer commanded the NGFS for taking Fort Fisher, the only successful large scale joint amphib attack?

What is the term for an armored enclosure for guns on the superstructure of a ship (or fort)?

Lincoln blockaded southern ports to deprive the CSA supplies & from money from this cash crop

In what self-serving way did both England and France aid the south in running the blockades?

What 1820 legislation stipulated that a balance of slave and free states had to be maintained as new states emerged?

When did it become illegal to import slaves into the United States?

What maritime strategy did Jeff Davis initiate to aid in his campaign against Northern shipping

What Naval officer, who had been the US Naval Academy’s first Superintendent, commanded the CSS Virginia?

Who commanded the Union gunboat squadron that joined Grant in demolishing Fort Henry on the Tennessee River in Feb 1862?

What natural phenomenon forced Farragut to withdraw downriver from Vicksburg in summer 1862?

The highwater mark of the Confederacy refers to this Pennsylvania town, a Confederate defeat at its northernmost point.

Who was the CSA Secretary of the Navy?

What did William Tecumseh Sherman accomplish in 1865 that the Navy could not?

What hero of the Civil War's career began in the War of 1812 and culminated in the capture of Mobile and New Orleans?

Who were the Navy’s first two Rear Admirals?  

What was the name of the CSA's most successful commerce raider and captain of the CSS Alabama?

What was the former name of the CSS Virginia, which was previously a Union ship burned before a retreat from Norfolk?

Where did the battle between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia take place?

The CSS Shenandoah's commerce raiding in the Aleutians nearly destroyed what industry?