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. . . The Merrimac and Monitor

Activity Sheet
A Part of My Civil War War and Weapons Activity

A Learning On-Line Learning Activity by Howard Taylor

 

Print this Question/Answer Sheet to record your answers.  You can do this with a partner, if you with.
Find the answers from the links on the Ironclads Page

 

Questions: Answers:
1.  Who did President Lincoln and the Navy hire to design the iron ship? 1.

 

 

2.  When did the inventor start to work on the Monitor, and  3. When did he finish? 2.

 

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4.  Why did President Lincoln and the Navy want a warship like the Monitor? 4.

 

5.  What does ironclad mean? 5.

 

6.  How much money did the inventor ask to be paid  for designing the ironclad?
 
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7.  How long was the Monitor? 7.

 

8. How many guns did it have?  9. How big were the guns? 8.

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10.  Where the guns placed in the monitor? 10.

 

11.  How much interior (inside) room was in the turret?  11.

 

 

12.  How did the turret allow for the guns to be able to shoot at any direction? 12.

 

13.  The Monitor looked like what kind of modern ship (we have today)? 13.

 

14. The Monitor first went into battle:

15. When?       

16. Where?


17. With what other ship? 

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18.  During the summer of 2000, what was going on in Charleston S.C. harbor, concerning the USS Monitor? 18.
19.  The other ship that would battle the Monitor was the Merrimac.  
20. What country built it?
 
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21.  When was the big battle it had with the Monitor?
22.  Which one won the battle?
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