Glory Quiz Terms

Question 1

Antietam

Answer 1

1862, Maryland, September 17. Lee stepped into Union territory in an effort to rile up Confederates there and get them to join the Confederacy. However, Marylanders were not keen on joining. Union soldiers got ahold of Lee’s battle plans, and General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac clashed with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam Creek. There were 23,000 casualties, and Lee eventually retreated, McClellan emerging somewhat victorious. This victory was what Lincoln needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 2

Total War

Answer 2

A style of fighting wars that targets civilians and public infrastructure, not just millitary assets, in an attempt to diminish the resources and public that an army in a certain area can rely on. An example of this is during Sherman’s March to the Sea.

Question 3

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 3

American stage actor and assassinator of Abraham Lincoln.

Question 4

Robert E. Lee

Answer 4

Main Confederate General, intelligent strategist and strong leader.

Question 5

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Answer 5

Right hand man to Lee, general in the Confederacy. He gained the nickname “Stonewall” because of his steadfast attitude and war technique of setting his men up like a wall, this lead to Confederate victory at the Battle of Bull Run. He was shot by friendly fire and died at Chancellorsville.

Question 6

James Longstreet

Answer 6

Another right hand man to Lee and general in the Confederacy. After the war, he worked for the Union in Reconstruction in New Orleans.

Question 7

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 7

Union general during the Civil War that led crushing campaigns in the South.

Question 8

Robert Gould Shaw

Answer 8

Colonel during the Civil War, lead the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Born to wealthy abolitionists.

Question 9

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 9

Took control of the Union Army later in the war and inflicted many losses on Confederates, later became US President.

Question 10

Fort Wagner

Answer 10

South Carolina, 1863. Where many of the 54th Massachusetts Army (including Shaw) fell trying to take the fort from Confederates. Crucial point that covered Charleston Harbor.

Question 11

Fort Sumter

Answer 11

Charleston, South Carolina, 1861. One of the last forts still in Union control after the Confederate states seceded. The Union soldiers there were besieged and running out of supplies. Lincoln sent them food and water, no arms, but the Confederacy opened fire on the fort regardless. Sumter surrendered, marking the official start of the Civil War.

Question 12

Jefferson Davis

Answer 12

President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.

Question 13

Sherman’s Field Order #15

Answer 13

Issued Jan 16, 1865, confiscated land from Charleston, South C to Jacksonville, Florida from Confederates to be distributed in 40 acre parcels to freed slaves.

Question 14

Confederate Policy for black troops

Answer 14

Blacks captured through war will be put back into slavery. Blacks in Union uniform captured through war will be killed.

Question 15

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 15

American President of the Union during the Civil War. Inaugurated 1861, March 4. Part of the Republican Party. Wanted to preserve the union, with or without slave emancipation.

Question 16

The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 16

Issued after the Battle of Antietam. It said that if the seceded state rebels did not stop the fighting by January 1, 1863, and re-enter the Union, all slaves in those states would be free. Union states with slavery, however, would remain the same. The ultimatum only applied to the rebels. South did not adhere to the proclamation, said they were a separate country, so the EP didn’t free a single slave at that time.

Question 17

Why was the EP important for the Union?

Answer 17

Transformed the war from preserving the Union to ending slavery. Allowed Lincoln to collect more troops by hiring Blacks for the first time in order to turn the tide of the war. It also gave the Union the moral high ground in the battle for public opinion and international support. International countries that had outlawed slavery like France and Britain no longer wanted to support the Confederacy.

Question 18

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 18

Nov 15, 1864: Marching his army from Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman cut a 30 mile wide path, razing and looting civilian property and farms in the Civil War effort on the Union’s side.

Question 19

Gettysburg

Answer 19

After the loss of Stonewall Jackson at Chancellorsville, Lee crossed into Pennsylvania to invade the North and prove to international potential allies that the Confederacy could win a battle on enemy territory, and that the Confederacy was separate from the Union, hopefully ending the war once and for all. Union raced to intercept Lee’s forces and a force under General Buford met some of his men trying to get shoes from a factory. This started the Gettysburg conflict, from June 1-3, 1863. The Army of the Potomac, under General Meade, clashes with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. The Confederates push the Union soldiers back, but through this the Union obtains the high ground. Lee tried to arrange an artillery barrage to damage the Union forces and end the battle, but the men sent to do the barrage were shot down and many Confederates were killed in the resulting attack. 50,000 died, and half were Confederates, almost a third of Lee’s army. Lee then retreated to the South, never again to invade union soil. Lincoln visited the site to honor the dead in November, and gave the Gettysburg Address, a message that maintained the equality of men through the D of I.

Question 20

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 20

Grant besieged Petersburg (railroad center that if captured could be the key to Richmond, the Confederate capital), and Lee’s forces retreated from the town and marched to North Carolina in the hopes of joining Confederate soldiers there. Lee and his soldiers, hungry and tired, were trapped by the Union at the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia. On April 9, Lee formally surrendered to Grant. Grant did not allow his soldiers to revel in the victory; he said now that they had surrendered, they were all countrymen again.

Question 21

General Nathan Bedford Forrest

Answer 21

General in the Confederacy and founder of the Klu Klux Klan. Lead the Fort Pillow Massacre, where Confederates killed nearly 200 Black troops fighting for the Union.

Question 22

Fort Pillow Massacre

Answer 22

April 1864, Confederates under General Forrest attacked Fort Pillow which was being held down Union forces. They killed nearly 200 Black troops that were defending the fort.

Question 23

Importance of Gettysburg as a turning point

Answer 23

Confederacy failed to gain international recognition and win a fight on enemy soil.

Question 24

Fort Vicksburg

Answer 24

Vicksburg was on the Mississippi River in Mississippi, crucial for river control. Union captured Jackson and the main rail leading to the fort and sieged it, starting May 22, 1863. Confederates at Vicksburg surrendered July 4, and Port Hudson followed suit, giving both positions to the Union.

Question 25

Anaconda Plan

Answer 25

Cutting the South in two by capturing the Mississippi River, and blockading and capturing Southern ports so the Confederates can’t import and export goods. Called “anaconda” because the plan squeezed around the Confederacy like the snake. Made by Winfield Scott

Question 26

War turning points:

Answer 26

Vicksburg & Gettysburg

Question 27

President + VP of the Confederacy during Civil War

Answer 27

Jefferson Davis + Alexander Stevens (Georgian)

Question 28

Candidates of Election of 1864

Answer 28

McClellan for Dems, Lincoln for National Union Party (VP was Andrew Johnson)