Chapter 11 - Test

Question 1

A person’s right to know what they are being arrested for and not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial

Answer 1

Habeas Corpus

Question 2

Wearing down through use

Answer 2

Attrition

Question 3

Freed all slaves after the Battle of Antietam because the huge loss of life at Antietam was turning the Northerners against the war

Answer 3

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 4

After the battle of ________ Lincoln gave a speech at a cemetery to honor all the lives lost at ________

Answer 4

Gettysburg Address

Question 5

Outlawed slavery in the U.S.

Answer 5

13th Amendment

Question 6

Burned down the Pickens Courthouse and burned the University of Alabama

Answer 6

Croxton’s Raiders

Question 7

Democrats who did not support the war

Answer 7

Copperheads

Question 8

The first African American regiment organized in the north (freed and enslaved African American)

Answer 8

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Question 9

Bread eaten by soldiers; In the north made from flour and in the south made from cornmeal; like a biscuit

Answer 9

Hardtack

Question 10

An actor who assassinated Lincoln

Answer 10

John Wilkes Booth

Question 11

Paper money issued by the Northern government that had little value by the end of the war

Answer 11

Greenbacks

Question 12

Known as Stonewall Jackson; Right hand of Robert E. Lee; died from wounds in the Battle of Chancellorsville

Answer 12

Thomas Jackson

Question 13

Killed at Shiloh; leader of the Confederate army

Answer 13

Albert Sidney Johnson

Question 14

Union general strike the end of the war; controlled the entire Union army

Answer 14

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 15

Headed the army of northern Virgina; lead general of the confederate army in the east

Answer 15

Robert E. Lee

Question 16

Practiced total war in Georgia; cavalry officer under Grant; burned Atlanta

Answer 16

William T. Sherman

Question 17

Gave citizenship to former slaves

Answer 17

14th Amendment

Question 18

Gave slaves the rights to vote

Answer 18

15th Amendment

Question 19

Ran for president against Lincoln; leader of Union army who was replaced by Lincoln three times; lost to Lee in Antietam

Answer 19

George McClellan

Question 20

Lost to Lee at Chancellorsville

Answer 20

Joseph Hooker

Question 21

Led a charge across a mile of open ground at Gettysburg that injured/killed 6,000 men; known as ________ Charge

Answer 21

George Pickett

Question 22

Practiced total war at the Shenandoah Valley

Answer 22

Philip Sheridan

Question 23

Defeated Lee at Gettysburg

Answer 23

George Meade

Question 24

Lost to Lee at Fredericksburg

Answer 24

Ambrose Burnside

Question 25

Commander of Andersonville and the only one accused for crimes against humanity

Answer 25

Henry Wirz

Question 26

Nurse in the field who later founded the Red Cross. Also started the Sanitary Commission to treat how to care for patient

Answer 26

Clara Barton

Question 27

Led the troops at bull run

Answer 27

PGT Beauregard

Question 28

Albert Sidney Johnson killed here; in Tennessee; location of the Hornets nest

Answer 28

Shiloh

Question 29

Bloodiest Battle of the warm

Answer 29

Antietam

Question 30

First real battle of army against army of the war; confederates won; also called Mannassas

Answer 30

Bull Run

Question 31

Last major victory of the confederates in the war

Answer 31

Chickamauga

Question 32

Taken by siege by Grant

Answer 32

Vicksburg

Question 33

Prison in Georgia

Answer 33

Andersonville

Question 34

Where two major rail-lines meet

Answer 34

Corinth

Question 35

Where Lee surrendered to a Grant

Answer 35

Appomattox Courthouse

Question 36

Compare the war plan of the North and the South

Answer 36

South- War of Attrition: attack the north in small battles so we don't loose many troops (because if our small army) and make the war last a long time so the Union would get tired of fighting and let us do our own thing North - Anaconda Plan: blockade southern ports, divide between a western and eastern fronts, and take control of Richmond

Question 37

Meade defeated Lee here and is the turning point of the war in the east

Answer 37

Gettysburg

Question 38

Lincoln was watching ___________ when he was assassinated

Answer 38

"Our American Cousin"

Question 39

Name three major military schools attended by most Civil War Officers

Answer 39

West Point VMI (Virginia Military Institute) The Citadel in Charleston

Question 40

Name the new weapons used in the war and explain how they affected injuries

Answer 40

Minie ball (used in the rifles) Gatling gun (caused explosions) Grenades - shrapnel (caused amputations) Spencer and Henry rifle (caused life-threatening injuries)

Question 41

Meade occupied a high ground called

Answer 41

Cemetery Ridge

Question 42

Captures the port of New Orleans

Answer 42

Farragut

Question 43

Marimack and Moniter were examples of

Answer 43

Ironclads

Question 44

Grant captured these forts before the Battle of Shiloh

Answer 44

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

Question 45

Siege warfare was used by Grant with these two cities

Answer 45

Vicksburg and Richmond

Question 46

Railings that were Hester and twisted by Sherman's men were called

Answer 46

Sherman's neckties

Question 47

Battle of Antietam was also called

Answer 47

Sharksburg

Question 48

Led the Union army at Antietam

Answer 48

McClellan

Question 49

Long knife attached to the front of a gun

Answer 49

Baronet

Question 50

Forcing people into military service

Answer 50

Conscription