Chapter 11

Question 1

president of the confederacy

Answer 1

Jefferson Davis

Question 2

Appointed by Lincoln to command the entire Union army.

Answer 2

George McClellan

Question 3

Commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi.

Answer 3

David G. Farragut

Question 4

Became General of the Confederate army when Johnston was wounded.

Answer 4

Robert E. Lee

Question 5

Fort in South Carolina still controlled by the Union.

Answer 5

Fort Sumter

Question 6

ship could splinter wooden ships, withstand cannon fire, and resist burning.

Answer 6

Ironclads

Question 7

Three-part strategy by the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Answer 7

anaconda Plan

Question 8

A small Tennessee church where a battle between Union and Confederate forces took place.

Answer 8

Shiloh

Question 9

Creek located in Maryland where Union and Confederate forces fought the bloodiest single day battle.

Answer 9

Antietam

Question 10

Battle is won by the Confederacy, moral is high and Confederates thought the war was over.

Answer 10

Bull Run

Question 11

Executive order issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 freeing the slaves behind Confederate lines.

Answer 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 12

Requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court so they know why they are in jail.

Answer 12

habeas corpus

Question 13

General in charge of Union forces in the West.

Answer 13

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 14

Appointed by Grant to command
the military division of Mississippi.

Answer 14

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 15

Virginia, Confederate victory here in 1863.

Answer 15

Chancellorsville

Question 16

Pennsylvania, the turning point of the Civil War.

Answer 16

Gettysburg

Question 17

Mississippi, one of two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River.

Answer 17

Vicksburg

Question 18

taking the fight to the entire south.

Answer 18

total war

Question 19

What helped Lincoln win his reelection in 1864?

Answer 19

Victories by Sherman

Question 20

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 20

A 26 year old actor and Southern sympathizer that assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Question 21

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 21

Abolished slavery throughout the United States (1865).

Question 22

Nurse for the Union who became known as the “Angel of the battlefield”.

Answer 22

Clara Barton

Question 23

African American soldiers suffered from…

Answer 23

• Discrimination
• Separate regiments commanded by white officers
• Not allowed to rise above rank of captain
• Lower pay, higher mortality rate.

Question 24

Worst Confederate prison located in Georgia. There was no shelter, and prisoners drank from the same stream that served as their sewer.

Answer 24

Andersonville