War In The West

Question 1

War in the west was fought to..

Answer 1

Control the rivers

Question 2

Result of Battles of fort Henry and fort donelson

Answer 2

North now controlled upper Mississippi River

Question 3

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 3

Union commander captured both these forts

Question 4

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 4

Day battle, blood bath, north wins

Question 5

Gen. George McClellan

Answer 5

“Young napoleon” - new commander of the union army - army of the Potomac (major army of the north)

Question 6

Peninsula campaign - March 1862

Answer 6

“Seven day battles”
Goal was to capture Richmond! 
North. Gen.george McClellan 
South: gen. Robert E. Lee
South wins McClellan gets fired

Question 7

Second battle of bull run (manassas) still 62

Answer 7

Lee whipped north!
South victory
McClellan was reinstated

Question 8

Why only the sla ves in the south?

Answer 8

• feared he would lose the support of the border states?

Question 9

Battle of Antietam (sharpsburg) - Political turning point of the war! Why???

Answer 9

Lincoln decided to emancipate the slaves! This changed the goal of the war!

Question 10

What caused Lincoln to emancipate the Slaves?

Answer 10

1. Slaves were helping the southern war effort. - (labor force)
2. (Main reason) - IT WOULD KEEP ENGLAND AND FRAN D OUT OF THE WAR
3. To help justify the growing casualties of the war

Question 11

Effects of theproclamation

Answer 11

1. Kept england and France out of the war
2. Encouraged slaves to run away!
3. Blacks joined up to fight as soldiers
4. LED to the passing of the 13th amendment (1865) which eventually abolished slavery

Question 12

54th mass, regiment: 1st all black regiment - commander Robert Gould Shaw

Answer 12

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