Battle Cards

Question 1

What was the first land battle, and resulted in both sides realizing that this war would not be quick or easy to win?

Answer 1

FIrst Battle of Bull Run

Question 2

What do we call a battle where one army surrounds another, cutting them off from supplies and forcing surrender?

Answer 2

A seige

Question 3

What was the battle that gave the Union control of the Cumberland River (a path to Nashville) and the Tennessee River (a path into the south)?

Answer 3

Siege of Fort Donelson

Question 4

What was the battle in southern Tennessee that ensured that the Union would keep control of the Tennessee River and nearby railroads?

Answer 4

Battle of Shiloh

Question 5

What was the battle that did not have a clear winner but provided an opportunity for Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 5

Battle of Antietam

Question 6

What was the battle in Murfreesboro, TN, that ensured that Nashville was secure as a supply base for the Union?

Answer 6

Battle of Stones River

Question 7

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War that is the turning point of the war?

Answer 7

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 8

What Tennessee battle was a crushing loss for the Confederacy where they lost 6 generals?

Answer 8

Battle of Franklin

Question 9

What was the last major Civil War battle in Tennessee?

Answer 9

Battle of Nashville

Question 10

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?

Answer 10

Appomattox Court House

Question 11

In what states did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves?

Answer 11

In the rebelling states (those states that had seceded), except for Tennessee which was considered to be already under Union control

Question 12

Why did the Emancipation Proclamation NOT free the slaves in the border states?

Answer 12

Lincoln did not want to risk angering the citizens of those states because he did not want those states to secede.

Question 13

What happened “four score and seven years ago” according to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?

Answer 13

The Declaration of Independence was in 1776, which was the birth of the United States of America.

Question 14

What was Lincoln’s message in the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 14

The soldiers who died at Gettysburg gave their lives to save the USA. We must continue this war and save our country so that those men did not die for no reason.