ACA American History 2 Test - Chapter 1

Question 1

Commissions

Answer 1

Private Volunteer groups

Question 2

Matthew Brady

Answer 2

A famous photographer that took pictures during the war to show the people what the war was really like. The time period did not allow, however, for there to be any in-action photos, they were all taken directly after the battles.

Question 3

Anaconda Plan

Answer 3

The plan the that Union General Winfield Scott developed. The general idea was to surround the south and choke them to death. Named after a snake that does the same thing.

Question 4

Joseph E. Johnston

Answer 4

The Confederate General that developed the confederate defensive strategy.

Question 5

Ironclad Warships

Answer 5

The new modern type of ship that was steam powered and coated with iron to better protect itself. Showed how advanced America was getting technologically during the war.

Question 6

Fall of Fort Sumter

Answer 6

January 1861, Southern victory, became overconfident, THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

Question 7

Providence

Answer 7

God

Question 8

Conscription

Answer 8

Wartime Drafts

Question 9

Twenty-Negro Law

Answer 9

Law that Exempted slave owners with more than 20 slaves to draft in the army.

Question 10

Total War

Answer 10

War that no longer just included armies, but civilians, properties, land, and literally everything.

Question 11

Irvin McDowell

Answer 11

Union General that helped the North at the first Battle of Bull Run, or the first Manassas. They ended up losing because there were too many men to execute his plans.

Question 12

P.G.T. Beauregard

Answer 12

Confederate General who ordered the first shots at Fort Sumter and led the attack at Charleston.

Question 13

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 13

The First Manassas, resulted in Northern loss and Southern overconfidence.

Question 14

Robert E. Lee

Answer 14

Confederate General in-chief, this man was the best general the South ever had, and led them through many a bloody battle.

Question 15

John Pope

Answer 15

Union General who was known for being outspoken and arrogant, failed miserably during the 2nd Battle of Bull Run and was instantly fired.

Question 16

J.E.B Stuart

Answer 16

Confederate General who won the 2nd Battle of Bull Run. He crushed the Union armies that day.

Question 17

George McClellan

Answer 17

Union General who excelled at organization but was too slow. CHALLENGED LINCOLN FOR PRES. IN 1864.

Question 18

Blockade

Answer 18

Union ships that blocked up the coast from South Carolina to the Mexican border.

Question 19

Blockade Runners

Answer 19

Confederate ships that were faster, lighter, and smaller than the Union BLockade boats. They would slip through the blockade to supply the South.

Question 20

William Sherman

Answer 20

Union General under Grant whose policy of total war on his “march to the Sea” embittered Southerners for generations.

Question 21

David Farragut

Answer 21

Union Naval commander who captured the lower Mississippi River area, including New Orleans.

Question 22

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 22

Union General captured the upper Mississippi River area and became Lincoln’s GENERAL IN CHIEF.

Question 23

Antietam

Answer 23

A bloody, bloody battle, that made both the Union and Confederacy lose many men, though the Confederacy couldn’t replace those men. The Union eventually drove away the Confederates, ending the invasion.

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 24

Freed all slaves within the Confederate States

Question 25

Ambrose Burnside

Answer 25

Union general at the Battle of Fredericksburg, gave SIDE BURNS THEIR NAME

Question 26

Fredrericksburg

Answer 26

The Confederates who were positioned at the Sunken Road crushed the Union in this bloody battle which resulted in heavy loss.

Question 27

Joe Hooker

Answer 27

Brigadier General of the Union Army, served under McClellan, an extremely immoral man who commanded the Army at Potomac.

Question 28

Chancellorsville

Answer 28

The confederate victory that stopped attempted flanking by Hooker’s army.

Question 29

Gettysburg

Answer 29

Crushed the Confederates to the breaking point, finished out the Anaconda Plan, and ensured Union Victory, though a few more battles would follow.

Question 30

George Meade

Answer 30

Union General who utterly crushed the Confederates at Gettysburg.

Question 31

James Longstreet

Answer 31

Confederate General who worked mainly under Lee but whose division produced Confederate victory at Chickamauga.

Question 32

Picket’s Charge

Answer 32

The final siege that led to Union Victory at the Battle of Gettysburg. The famous Bayonet charge up Little Round Top

Question 33

War of Attrition

Answer 33

A prolonged war where each side seeks to tire out the other

Question 34

Pilip Sheridan

Answer 34

Union General who fought under Grant During the battle of Shenandoah Valley

Question 35

Chickamauga

Answer 35

Battle won by the Confederate army, though they lost 20% of their troops in the process. Union soldiers ended up breaking through the lines and started the battle of Chattanooga.

Question 36

George Thomas

Answer 36

THE ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA. Led Union troops and won the battle of Chickamauga

Question 37

Bummers

Answer 37

Foragers of William Sherman’s army during the MARCH TO THE SEA

Question 38

March to the Sea

Answer 38

When William T. Sherman led his troops through the state of Georgia and burned, destroyed, and pillaged all they could.

Question 39

Andrew Johnson

Answer 39

The ONLY Southern Senator who stayed loyal to the Union. Lincoln picked him to be his vice President in the Election of 1864. Shortly after the Election, however, Lincoln would die leaving… President

Question 40

The Wilderness

Answer 40

A terrible battle took place in a heavily wooded area west of Fredericksburg. Here it was almost impossible to fight without dying. Once a cannon was fired, all of the brush would catch on fire, killing many many men.

Question 41

Appomattox Court House

Answer 41

The unlikely site where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to U.S. Grant and gave Grant the nickname, Unconditional Surrender Grant.

Question 42

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 42

An actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated Lincoln during a show at the Ford Theater.

Question 43

THE END

Answer 43

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