Ch 15

Question 0

How did the confederate constitution compare to that of the United States?

Answer 0

It was very similar except it guaranteed the existence of slavery

Question 1

Who became the president of the confederacy?

Answer 1

Jefferson Davis

Question 2

What were some advantages for the North?

Answer 2

• Population
• railroads
• manufacturing
• farmland
• navy
• government leadership

Question 3

What were some advantages of the confederacy?

Answer 3

• defensive war
• military leadership
• southerners= good with guns
• cotton (way to open up diplomatic channels with England and France)

Question 4

Who was the top confederate general in the civil war?

Answer 4

Robert E Lee

Question 5

Which General captured fort Sumter?

Answer 5

General Peter Beauregard

Question 6

Who were the “eyes and ears” of Robert E Lee

Answer 6

Jeb Stuart

Question 7

What became a major disadvantage for the confederacy?

Answer 7

Idea of states rights

Question 8

Who came up with the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 8

General Whinfield Scott

Question 9

What were the 3 phases of the anaconda plan?

Answer 9

1) Western campaign (divide and conquer)
2) Eastern campaign (attack Capitol)
3) Naval Blockade

Question 10

What was the Capitol of the confederacy?

Answer 10

Richmond Virginia

Question 11

Why was the anaconda plan never fully implemented?

Answer 11

It was seen as to passive

Question 12

Who eventually revisits the anaconda plan?

Answer 12

Ulysses S Grant

Question 13

What was the first major land battle in the civil war?

Answer 13

Battle of Bull Run

Question 14

What was bull run aka?

Answer 14

Manasseh Junction

Question 15

Who did Lincoln send to try and take Richmond?

Answer 15

Irvin McDowell

Question 16

Who helped turn the tide for the confederacy by having his men stand like a wall?

Answer 16

Stonewall jackson

Question 17

Who won the battle of bull run

Answer 17

The confederacy

Question 18

What made the civil war extremely deadly?

Answer 18

Advancements in warfare

Question 19

Wooden ships with iron over top

Answer 19

Iron class

Question 20

Where did the Moniter face the Merrimac?

Answer 20

Hampton roads, virginia

Question 21

What was the name of the confederate ship?

Answer 21

Merrimac

Question 22

What was the Merrimac nicknamed?

Answer 22

The virginia

Question 23

What was the name of the union ship?

Answer 23

The monitor

Question 24

After the battle of bull run, who did Lincoln send to try to take Richmond?

Answer 24

George McClellan

Question 25

What battle marked the union taking Richmond?

Answer 25

The second battle of bull run

Question 26

Why did Lee decide to go offensive?

Answer 26

- get fighting out of south - get a diplomatic superpower to recognize the confederacy - put pressure on Lincoln to end the war with a settlement

Question 27

What was the bloodiest battle of the civil war?

Answer 27

Antietam

Question 28

Who won the battle of Antietam?

Answer 28

No victor

Question 29

Who was nicknamed tardy george and failed to go after Lee after Antietam?

Answer 29

McClellan

Question 30

This freed any slaves in confederate states

Answer 30

Emancipation proclamation

Question 31

What did the emancipation proclamation almost guarantee?

Answer 31

Europe would stay neutral

Question 32

What regiments were the first all black regiments?

Answer 32

54th and 55th of Massachusetts

Question 33

Who led the 54th and 55th regiments of Massachusetts?

Answer 33

Robert Gould Shaw

Question 34

What was the last southern stronghold along the Mississippi?

Answer 34

Vicksburg

Question 35

Who captured New Orleans?

Answer 35

Admiral David Farragut

Question 36

Who laid siege to Vicksburg?

Answer 36

Grant

Question 37

Who surrendered at Vicksburg after 40 days?

Answer 37

General Pemberton

Question 38

Where is Gettysburg ?

Answer 38

Pennsylvania

Question 39

Who was the union General Attlee Gettysburg?

Answer 39

Mead

Question 40

Who did Lee order to charge the center of union lines?

Answer 40

General Pickett

Question 41

What does the battle of Gettysburg mark?

Answer 41

The ride turns for the north

Question 42

Why was Lincoln upset with Meade?

Answer 42

Meade did not follow Lee after Gettysburg and finish him off

Question 43

Who captured Atlanta in 1864?

Answer 43

General Sherman

Question 44

What did Sherman's capture of Atlanta assure?

Answer 44

Lincoln's reelection

Question 45

Sherman marched from Atlanta to __________

Answer 45

Savannah

Question 46

What did Sherman want to prove during his famous march?

Answer 46

That the confederate government could not protect it's civilians

Question 47

What happened when Sherman reached Savannah?

Answer 47

They gave up peacefully

Question 48

Where did Sherman go to after capturing Savannah?

Answer 48

South Carolina

Question 49

Who was the democratic candidate in the election of 1864?

Answer 49

George B Mclellan

Question 50

Where did Lee surrender?

Answer 50

Appomattox Courthouse

Question 51

What party was Lincoln a leader of prior to the Republican Party?

Answer 51

Whigs

Question 52

Where did South Carolina hold a convention to secede?

Answer 52

Charleston

Question 53

Believed that slave states should secede as a unit

Answer 53

Cooperationists

Question 54

Where did delegates from the Deep South meet to establish the confederate states of America?

Answer 54

Montgomery Alabama

Question 55

Where was Jefferson Davis from?

Answer 55

Mississippi

Question 56

Who was the Vice President of the confederacy?

Answer 56

Alexander Stevens

Question 57

These people believed in peace at any price

Answer 57

Copperheads