Activity Sheet
A Part of My Civil War War
and Weapons Activity
A Learning On-Line
Learning
Activity by Howard Taylor
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| 1. Who did President Lincoln and the Navy hire to design the iron ship? | 1.
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| 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.
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| 5. What does ironclad mean? | 5.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 11. How much interior (inside) room was in the turret? | 11.
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| 12. How did the turret allow for the guns to be able to shoot at any direction? | 12.
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| 13. The Monitor looked like what kind of modern ship (we have today)? | 13.
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| 14. The Monitor first went into battle:
15. When? 16. Where? |
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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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