The first twelve were trivially easy; the last one, which is actually a current-events question, was trickier and I had to take a guess, but got the right one.
I didn't know which prison it was. Something I can only credit to my not really having much direct interest there, & I slipped on one having the freedom of speech removed instead of Habeus Corpus.
What I wish we would have been tested more on were the underlying causes of the war. That would have made it more difficult & also more illuminating to some.
actually read "Andersonville" (a well-selling novel), a piece-of-life story by the author of Andersonville, and one of the source materials "John Ransom's Diary"
(But on the quiz, I also read the comments -- they were obviously sidestepping the argument between the still-Rebels & the rest of the country about the cause.)
They really blew Question 9 since their answer is wrong and the machine gun first saw action in the Civil War:
The French used ironclad ships during the Crimean War ten years earlier.
From Wikipedia:
In the 1850s, the British and French navies deployed iron-armoured floating batteries as a supplement to the wooden steam battlefleet in the Crimean War. The role of the battery was to assist unarmoured mortar and gunboats bombarding shore fortifications. The French used their batteries in 1855 against the defenses at Kinburn on the Black Sea, where they were effective against Russian shore defences. The British planned to use theirs in the Baltic Sea against Kronstadt, and were influential in causing the Russians to sue for peace. The development of such iron-armoured batteries was step towards the development of ironclad warships.
Lambert A. "Iron Hulls and Armour Plate"; Gardiner Steam, Steel and Shellfire p. 47-55
On the other hand machine guns like the Agar gun and the Gatling gun first saw limited use during the American Civil War
The Mitrailleuse? It was similar to the Gatling in which it had to be cranked.
The Maxim was the first design where you cocked it and pulled the trigger and it fired until a stoppage or it ran out of ammo or you took your finger off the rigger.
100% here too, although most of those questions were pretty easy. Even the last one wasn't difficult if you pay attention to polling on various culture-war issues.
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What I wish we would have been tested more on were the underlying causes of the war. That would have made it more difficult & also more illuminating to some.
Whereas the wife
(But on the quiz, I also read the comments -- they were obviously sidestepping the argument between the still-Rebels & the rest of the country about the cause.)
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The French used ironclad ships during the Crimean War ten years earlier.
From Wikipedia:
In the 1850s, the British and French navies deployed iron-armoured floating batteries as a supplement to the wooden steam battlefleet in the Crimean War. The role of the battery was to assist unarmoured mortar and gunboats bombarding shore fortifications. The French used their batteries in 1855 against the defenses at Kinburn on the Black Sea, where they were effective against Russian shore defences. The British planned to use theirs in the Baltic Sea against Kronstadt, and were influential in causing the Russians to sue for peace. The development of such iron-armoured batteries was step towards the development of ironclad warships.
Lambert A. "Iron Hulls and Armour Plate"; Gardiner Steam, Steel and Shellfire p. 47-55
On the other hand machine guns like the Agar gun and the Gatling gun first saw limited use during the American Civil War
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The first "real" machine guns were in the Franco Prussian war.
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The Maxim was the first design where you cocked it and pulled the trigger and it fired until a stoppage or it ran out of ammo or you took your finger off the rigger.
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