Chapter 16

Question 1

What was the union capital?

Answer 1

Washington DC

Question 2

What became known as copperheads?

Answer 2

Peace Democrats

Question 3

Who was a hero of the war with Mexico who devised the North’s war plan?

Answer 3

Winfield Scott

Question 4

What was the first ever battle between ironclad ships?

Answer 4

The battle of the monitor and the Merrimack

Question 5

What was the Confederate capital?

Answer 5

Richmond Virginia

Question 6

Who dad at Chancellorsville?

Answer 6

General Stonewall Jackson

Question 7

Who captured New Orleans?

Answer 7

David Farragut

Question 8

What was the South’s ironclad ship?

Answer 8

The Merrimack

Question 9

What was the African-American regiment known as?

Answer 9

54th Massachusetts

Question 10

What was named after a small church? It lasted only two days, but included some of the bloodiest fighting of the war.

Answer 10

The battle of Shiloh

Question 11

Who was the Confederate President?

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

Who was a Confederate commander? He fought against general Irvin McDowell at the first battle of Bull Run.

Answer 12

General P. G. T. Beauregard

Question 13

Who was a hero of the war with Mexico who devised the North’s war plan?

Answer 13

Winfield Scott

Question 14

What began on July 1, 1863 when the Confederates entered a town for supplies and encountered Union troops?

Answer 14

The battle of Gettysburg

Question 15

What took place during the battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 15

Pickett’s charge

Question 16

What was the plan to gain control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy?

Answer 16

The Anaconda plan

Question 17

Who’s strategy was total war?

Answer 17

General Sherman

Question 18

In the Civil War, for the first time, thousands of women served as what?

Answer 18

Nurses

Question 19

Because the war disrupted their supply of cotton, the South expected support from what two countries?

Answer 19

Britain and France

Question 20

What was the main goal of the north at the beginning of the war?

Answer 20

To reunite the country

Question 21

What was signed by Lincoln on January 1, 1863?

Answer 21

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 22

The worst disturbance in protest of the draft laws took place where?

Answer 22

In New York City

Question 23

What was a prisoners right?

Answer 23

Hey Habeas Corpus

Question 24

What was northern money known as?

Answer 24

Greenbacks

Question 25

What was the site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to the union?

Answer 25

Appomattox Courthouse

Question 26

What was the era after the war known as?

Answer 26

Reconstruction

Question 27

Because the war disrupted their supply of what, the South expected support from Britain and France?

Answer 27

Cotton

Question 28

Whose strategy was total war?

Answer 28

General Sherman

Question 29

What city did David Farragut capture?

Answer 29

New Orleans

Question 30

Who was Mary Edwards Walker?

Answer 30

The first female Army surgeon

Question 31

Who was Jefferson Davis?

Answer 31

The Confederate President

Question 32

What was known as the 54th Massachusetts?

Answer 32

The African-American regiment

Question 33

What was the battle of Shiloh named after? How many days did it last?

Answer 33

It was named after a small church. It lasted only two days.

Question 34

Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 34

Lincoln

Question 35

Who dad at Chancellorsville?

Answer 35

General Stonewall Jackson

Question 36

General Beauregard fault against general McDowell at what battle?

Answer 36

The first battle of Bull Run

Question 37

Who was the first female Army surgeon?

Answer 37

Mary Edwards Walker