The "USS MOnitor" was one of the first?

Question

A) Frigates
B)Dreadnoughts
C)Battleships
D)Ironclads

Answer 1

Ironclads hands down!

Answer 2

Ironclads... However, "one of the first" is misleading.

The first ironclad was a French steam frigate made in 1859. The British responded with their first ironclad in 1860. France then proceeded to make 16 more ironclads.

The Confederate States of America had quite a number of ironclads. They started building over 50 of the, but only had 24 done by the end of the war.

The Monitor was made as a result of the success the CSA was having with their ironclads against the wood Union ships. The Monitor was "one of the first" to use a turret gun. But it was the battle between the Monitor and Merrimack which was their major claim to fame, the first battle between two ironclads.

The pounding they gave each other would have destroyed any wood ship yet both survived the battle with relatively little damage. The days of the wood warship were over.

Answer 3

D ) Ironclads

USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy. The Monitor was the first in a long line of Monitor Class US warships and the term "monitor" describes a broad class of European harbor defense craft.

In previous decades, nearly all warships were made primarily of wood. In the decade before Hampton Roads, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare changed dramatically with the introduction of armor.

On March 9, 1862, the Civil War battle of Hampton Roads between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimack) heralded the beginning of a new era in naval warfare. Though indecisive, the battle marked the change from wood and sail to iron and steam.

Today, the remains of the Monitor rest on the ocean floor off North Carolina's Outer Banks, where the ship sank in a storm on December 31, 1862. Discovered in 1973, the Monitor wreck site was designated the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The purpose of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is to preserve the historic record of this significant vessel and to interpret her role in shaping US naval history. Over the past several years NOAA has made extensive surveys of the wreck site and recovered a number of artifacts from the Monitor.


The Monitor is not only an icon of Civil War History, but a pivotal piece of international naval history.

Answer 4

Ironclads

Answer 5

Ironclad

Answer 6

I do believe it was: D) An Ironclad.

Answer 7

[D] Ironclads

Answer 8

Ironclad.

Hope the homework assignment goes well

Answer 9

iron clad

Answer 10

D