Question

3. What was important about the battle between the Merrimack (Virginia) and the Monitor?

A. It was the first naval battle of the war.
B. It was the first time ironclads fought each other.
C. It prevented the Union from destroying the Confederate ship yards at Hampton Roads.
D. It prevented the Confederacy from keeping the Union navy out of the Mississippi River.

Answer 1

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack, also called Battle of Hampton Roads, (March 9, 1862), in the American Civil War, naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbour at the mouth of the James River, notable as history's first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare

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