Chapter 11-Civil War

Question 1

This section had little industry.

Answer 1

South

Question 2

Richmond’s ______ iron works was nearly the only large scale industry in the southern states.

Answer 2

Tredegar Iron Works

Question 3

The South tried to finance the war by printing money which resulted in run-away ____.

Answer 3

inflation

Question 4

Many southerners claimed that ___ was the real reason for Civil War in 1860.

Answer 4

States Rights

Question 5

Many New Englanders claim that ____ was the real reason for Civil War in 1860.

Answer 5

Slavery

Question 6

Northern money was often called __.

Answer 6

Greenbacks

Question 7

Drafting non-volunteers to fight the Civil War was called ____.

Answer 7

Conscription

Question 8

The _____ were peace Democrats willing to accept peace at any price, even letting the southern states to secede.

Answer 8

Copperheads

Question 9

The _____ was when a Union warship stopped a British ship, boarded it, and kidnapped Mason and Slidel from their mission to England.

Answer 9

Trent Affiar

Question 10

President Lincoln’s military frustration was ____.

Answer 10

finding a Union General who could win victories.

Question 11

What was the name of the the Union’s war strategy?

Answer 11

Anaconda Plan

Question 12

Lincoln issued a ______ of southern ports to strangled the rebelling states.

Answer 12

Naval blockade

Question 13

Which two southern ports remain open to commerce until 1865.

Answer 13

Charleston, S.C.

Wilmington, N.C.

Question 14

Lincoln’s war goal at the beginning of the Civil War was ____.

Answer 14

to preserve the Union.

Question 15

After the battle at Antietam, Lincoln shifts his war goal to ____.

Answer 15

emancipating the slaves.

Question 16

What Union general did Lincoln finally find that could really fight and win?

Answer 16

Grant

Question 17

“…that government of the people, for the people, and by the people will not perish from the earth.” From which speech do these lines come from.

Answer 17

Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln.

Question 18

What was the Confederates strategy to win the Civil War?

Answer 18

Seek Foreign intervention
Win one great battle.
War of Attrition

Question 19

First major land battle was ___.

Answer 19

First Manassas in July 1861.

Question 20

What general will win a famous name at First Manassas?

Answer 20

General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 21

Who lost the first battle at Manassas?

Answer 21

Irwin McDowell

Question 22

Bloody April is the battle at ___.

Answer 22

Shiloh, Tenn.

Question 23

What two generals fought at Shiloh?

Answer 23

Albert S. Johnson v. Ulysses S. Grant

Question 24

McClellan was delayed by two months by Joe Johnson at _____ in spring of 1862.

Answer 24

Yorktown, Va.

Question 25

McClellan was pushed away from Richmond, Va. by Robert E. Lee's army at the _____.

Answer 25

Seven Days Battles in summer of 1862

Question 26

The battle of Second Manassas was fought between ___ and ___.

Answer 26

Pope and Lee

Question 27

____ captures the largest southern city of New Orleans in the spring of 1862.

Answer 27

Admiral Farragut

Question 28

This was the most bloody single day in US History and resulted in Lincoln changing the war goal to ending slavery.

Answer 28

Battle of Antietam

Question 29

Who failed to decisively defeat Robert E. Lee at Antietam?

Answer 29

George B. McClellan

Question 30

After Antietam, Lincoln issues the _____ freeing slaves in the rebelling states.

Answer 30

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 31

What two generals fought at Chancellorsville?

Answer 31

Robert E. Lee and Joseph Hooker

Question 32

Who died from the results of complications from his wounds at Chancellorsville?

Answer 32

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

Question 33

This was the turning point battle on the Mississippi River.

Answer 33

Vicksburg, Miss.

Question 34

Who was authorized to carry out a deep cavalry raid behind Confederate lines in Mississippi.

Answer 34

General Grierson

Question 35

What is the turning point battle in Pennsylvania?

Answer 35

Gettysburg, Penn.

Question 36

What two generals fought at Gettysburg.

Answer 36

Robert E. Lee v. George Meade

Question 37

This was a railway hub and entrance to the invasion of Georgia.

Answer 37

Chattanooga, Tenn.

Question 38

What two generals fought at Chattanooga in 1863?

Answer 38

Braxton Bragg v. Ulysses Grant

Question 39

What southern Georgia city was captured and burned to the ground by troop under command of Gen. Sherman?

Answer 39

Atlanta, Ga.

Question 40

What did General Sherman do in Georgia?

Answer 40

Marched to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah, burning all they could find. War is Hell!!

Question 41

List four battles in 1864 that General Lee fought Grant

Answer 41

Wilderness Spotsylvania Cold Harbor Petersburg

Question 42

What was Gen. Grant's cavalry commander named who burned much of the Valley of Virginia?

Answer 42

General Sheridan

Question 43

In April 1865, General Lee ___

Answer 43

Surrenders to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox

Question 44

General Grant understood how General Lee was able to reinforce his army and thus stopped all ____ in 1864.

Answer 44

Prisoner of War Exchanges

Question 45

to search for food and supplies in enemy territory is called ____.

Answer 45

Foraging

Question 46

Symbol of Hospital women workers during Civil War was ____.

Answer 46

French woman Florence Nightingale

Question 47

Leader of the US Sanitary Commission was __.

Answer 47

Elizabeth Blackwell, female doctor

Question 48

Woman nurse who would later start the American Red Cross.

Answer 48

Clara Barton

Question 49

What two things caused more deaths than all the battles combined?

Answer 49

Disease | infections

Question 50

This was an army cracker and primary soldier's food.

Answer 50

Hard tack

Question 51

The south faced many _____ in the army and at home during the war.

Answer 51

food shortages

Question 52

List two occupations for women war work during the Civil War

Answer 52

making uniforms and shoe production

Question 53

_____ were allowed to join the military effort but were discriminated against.

Answer 53

African-Americans

Question 54

Which military regiment was formed from African American enlisted men and fought with bravery at Battery Wagner near Charleston, S.C.

Answer 54

54th Massachusetts Infantry

Question 55

The Confederate authorities used ____ to import war materials through the blockade.

Answer 55

Blockade runners

Question 56

The _____ freed all slaves in the entire country.

Answer 56

13th Amendment