Civil War - quiz 1 to end

Question 1

the south’s last fortress/hold on the miss. river
- 6-month siege

Answer 1

Vicksburg

Question 2

gen. George McClellan

Answer 2

• “young Napolean”
• commander of the Union Army
• cautious, slow, not risk-taking

Question 3

• “seven days battles”
• goal to capture Richmond
• Lee pushed McClellan off the peninsula, big Southern victory!

Answer 3

Peninsula Campaign

Question 4

second battle of Bull Run

Answer 4

• gen. John Pope against Lee
• another Southern victory, McClellan reinstated

Question 5

• McClellan found Lee’s battle plan and won the battle!
• bloodiest day in American history
• POLITICAL turning point of the war
• stopped any foreign assistance from joining the south

Answer 5

Battle of Antietam

Question 6

• freed all slaves in south but not in the border states
• changed goal of war after Antietam

Answer 6

emancipation proclamation

Question 7

effects of emancipation proclamation

Answer 7

1. kept England and France out of the war
2. encouraged slaves to run away and leave south laborless
3. black people joined up to fight for north!
4. led to the passing of 13th Amendment which abolished slavery

Question 8

• first all-black regiment
• led by Robert Gould Shaw

Answer 8

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Question 9

worst POW camp in the civil war

Answer 9

Andersonville Prison in Georgia

Question 10

main photographer in the first war photographed in history (civil war)

Answer 10

Matthew Brady

Question 11

main photographer in the first war photographed in history (civil war)

Answer 11

Matthew Brady

Question 12

women’s roles during war

Answer 12

1. nurses
2. factories (sewing)
3. gov. jobs (copyists)

Question 13

famous nurses

Answer 13

1. Dorthea DIx - north
2. *Clara Barton - “Angel of the Battlefield”
3. Sally Thompkins - south
4. Elizabeth Blackwell - 1st female doctor of US

Question 14

famous female spies

Answer 14

1. Harriet Tubman - north
2. Rose O’Neil Greenhow - south

Question 15

female writers

Answer 15

1. Mary Chesnut - south
2. Juliet Ward - north
   
   • wrote “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Question 16

disguised herself as a soldier to fight

Answer 16

Loretta Velequez

Question 17

ways to avoid the draft (1863)

Answer 17

1. certain profession’s (teachers, mailman, etc)
2. hire a substitute
   
   • rich man’s war, but a poor man’s fight
3. own more than 20 slaves

Question 18

• battle that south wins, but there is a grave consequence
  
  • Stonewall Jackson (Lee’s best commander) is
    killed by one of his own men

Answer 18

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 19

• Lee’s last-ditch effort to invade the north
• biggest battle fought in the Western Hemisphere
• Lee vs. George Meade
• 51,000 casualties

Answer 19

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 20

day two of Gettysburg battle

Answer 20

Little Round Top
- bloody fighting
- Lawrence Chamberlain (schoolteacher) - “hero of Gettysburg” holds out against south’s invasion

Question 21

day three of Gettysburg battle

Answer 21

Picketts Charge
- south attacks center of the line
- huge mistake
- huge union victory!
- MILITARY turning point of the war

Question 22

what state separates in 1864?

Answer 22

48 counties of Virginia secede from south to form West Virginia

Question 23

1864 - new union commander and 2nd in command

Answer 23

Ulysses S. Grant (goal to take Richmond) and William Tecumseh Sherman (goal to take Atlanta)

Question 24

pres. election of 1864

Answer 24

democrats - led by George McClellan (for peace)
republicans - led by Lincoln
- reasons Lincoln won = Atlanta’s fall to Sherman and part of Mobile (southern port falling)

Question 25

Sherman’s “March to the Sea”

Answer 25

• Atlanta to Savannah
• destroyed everything in his path

Question 26

April 3, 1865

Answer 26

Richmond falls to north
- after confederates abandon Petersburg the previous day after a 9 month siege
Lee’s army trapped at Appomattox Courthouse

Question 27

end of war

Answer 27

Lee and Grant discussed peace terms in the house of William McClean
- generous peace terms because Lincoln wanted to heal the bad blood between the two sides

Question 28

April 14, 1865

Answer 28

“The Great Emancipator” Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s theater by actor and Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth
- first presidential assassination in history!
- Mary Surrat (co-conspirator) first female execution in US history!