Chapter 14

Question 1

An effort to blockade the south and capture the Mississippi River

Answer 1

Anaconda Plan

Question 2

The North’s main army in the East

Answer 2

Potomac

Question 3

Democrats who were for peace, who sympathized with the South, and who opposed Lincoln

Answer 3

Copperheads

Question 4

Southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade

Answer 4

Virginia

Question 5

Northern ironclad with a revolving gun turret

Answer 5

Monitor

Question 6

Early unsuccessful attempt to capture the South

Answer 6

Peninsular Campaign

Question 7

Diversion of two Union armies by a small Confederate force

Answer 7

Valley Campaign

Question 8

The South’s main army in the East

Answer 8

Army of Northern Virginia

Question 9

Continual fighting in the north of Richmond

Answer 9

Wilderness Campaign

Question 10

Sherman’s destruction of Georgia

Answer 10

March to the Sea

Question 11

First major land battle of the Civil War

Answer 11

First Battle of Manassas

Question 12

The South’s successful defense of its capital

Answer 12

Seven Day’s Battle

Question 13

Resulted in the Emancipation proclamation

Answer 13

Battle of Antietam

Question 14

Confederate loss that opened the door for Sherman’s March

Answer 14

Battle of Chattanooga

Question 15

Marked the end of the South’s offensive capabilities

Answer 15

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 16

Opened Tennessee to invasion

Answer 16

Forts Henry and Donelson

Question 17

Grant’s army was caught napping

Answer 17

Battle of Shiloh

Question 18

Loss that gave the North total control of the Mississippi River

Answer 18

Siege of Vicksburg

Question 19

Effort to capture the rail center feeding Richmond

Answer 19

Siege of Petersburg

Question 20

Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 20

Appomattox Court House

Question 21

What speech did Lincoln give to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War?

Answer 21

Gettysburg Address

Question 22

What term means to draft, or compulsory enrollment of men into military service?

Answer 22

Conscription

Question 23

Which state was unconstitutionally admitted into the Union during the Civil War?

Answer 23

West Virginia

Question 24

What central issue sparked the Civil War?

Answer 24

States’ rights

Question 25

What was one of the South’s primary advantages at the outset of the war?

Answer 25

Better commanders

Question 26

What was the South’s basic strategy for victory during the war?

Answer 26

To wage a defensive war and outlast the North’s will to fight

Question 27

Where did most of the fighting occur in the East?

Answer 27

Virginia

Question 28

What general played a critical support role in: First Manassas, Seven Days’ Battles, Second Manassas, and Chancellorsville?

Answer 28

Stonewall Jackson

Question 29

What was the significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Virginia?

Answer 29

The age of wooden ships began to close

Question 30

What was the most significant outcome of Joseph E. Johnston’s attack at Fair Oaks outside Richmond?

Answer 30

Robert E. Lee was promoted to command the army

Question 31

Which Battle was the first clear-cut defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia?

Answer 31

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 32

Why did the North attempt to capture the Mississippi River?

Answer 32

It divided the Confederacy in two

Question 33

Which general left the army because of alleged drunkenness?

Answer 33

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 34

During what daring Campaign did Grant cut off his army from his supply bases to surprise his enemy?

Answer 34

Vicksburg

Question 35

What caused a major riot in New York in 1863?

Answer 35

Conscription

Question 36

What was a border state?

Answer 36

Slave state that did not secede

Question 37

What event almost brought Britain into the Civil War?

Answer 37

Trent Affair

Question 38

What was Grant’s greatest defeat?

Answer 38

Battle of Cold Harbor

Question 39

Why did Grant continue to fight after so many losses?

Answer 39

He knew he could replace his losses but the South could not

Question 40

The capture of what city ensured Lincoln’s re-election in 1864?

Answer 40

Atlanta