Chapter 12 test

Question 1

Fort Sumter

Answer 1

Site of the conflict that started the Civil War and forced border states to choose sides

Question 2

Robert Anderson

Answer 2

Surrendered Fort Sumter to Confederate forces

Question 3

Fort Sumter

Answer 3

Union army post that fell to the Confederacy, prompting Lincoln to declare the existence of a rebellion

Question 4

Conscription

Answer 4

Military draft first enacted by the Confederacy

Question 5

Most Civil War Soldiers were

Answer 5

Poor farmers or laborers

Question 6

These two following groups were least represented among Civil War Troops

Answer 6

1. Planters
2. Businesspeople

Question 7

Women contributed to the war effort by doing all of the following

Answer 7

1. Serving as spies
2. Working in offices and factories
3. Tending to sick and wounded soldiers

Question 8

Nuns of the battlefield were nurses who treated

Answer 8

All war victims, regardless of allegiance

Question 9

Elizabeth Blackwell

Answer 9

America’s first professionally licensed female doctor

Question 10

Sally Louisa Tompkins

Answer 10

Only recognized female officer in the Confederate services

Question 11

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 11

Battle that proved to both sides that the war would be a long one

Question 12

Northern military strategies included

Answer 12

1. Capturing Richmond
2. Controlling the Mississippi River
3. Establishing a naval blockade of the South

Question 13

The primary southern war strategy included

Answer 13

Capturing Washington D.C.

Question 14

Troops faced many hardships including

Answer 14

1. Battle wounds and diseases
2. Lack of supplies
3. Loneliness and homesickness

Question 15

Hardships faced by both Union and Confederate troops included all of the following

Answer 15

1. Unsanitary conditions
2. Malnutrition
3. Lack of any medical attention

Question 16

Copperheads were

Answer 16

Northern Democrats who sympathized with the south

Question 17

Some northerners opposed the war for the following reasons

Answer 17

1. Concerns over costs in money and human life
2. Fears of losing jobs to former slaves
3. Sympathy for the south

Question 18

Jeb Stuart

Answer 18

Commander of Calvary unit whose information- Gathering helped Confederate troops win the Seven Days’ campaign

Question 19

Union forces failed to capture Richmond during the peninsula Campaign because of the

Answer 19

Hesitation of George B. McClellan

Question 20

Antietam

Answer 20

Battle site of a Union victory in the East that boosted northern confidence and morale

Question 21

Three following things were results because the Battle of Antietam

Answer 21

1. Failed southern hopes for winning European allies
2. Improved Union morale
3. Northern realization that General Robert E. Lee could be defeated

Question 22

Chancellorsville

Answer 22

Battle site of disastrous defeat for General Hooker and the Union army

Question 23

The battle of Chancellorsville led to

Answer 23

General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s death

Question 24

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 24

Conflict that demonstrated the North’s ability to defeat the South

Question 25

David Farragut

Answer 25

Union naval officer and who captured New Orleans

Question 26

Mississippi River

Answer 26

Controlled by the North after New Orleans and Vicksburg were captured

Question 27

Union troops gained control of the Mississippi River after

Answer 27

The battle of Vicksburg

Question 28

Hoping to weaken the southern economy

Answer 28

The North enlarged its war aims to include freeing the slaves

Question 29

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 29

Banned slavery in the Confederate regions only

Question 30

Martin Delany

Answer 30

First African American promoted to rank of major

Question 31

The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was the first

Answer 31

African American regiment to play a key role in a battle

Question 32

War of attrition

Answer 32

General Ulysses S. Grant’s military tactics that wore down the Confederates through constant attack

Question 33

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 33

General who led the Union army in a war of attrition, attacking again and again until the South ran out of men and supplies

Question 34

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 34

Union general who believed in fighting a total war, which meant destroying the South’s economy as well as defeating its army

Question 35

Atlanta

Answer 35

City burned to cut Confederate railroad access across the Appalachians

Question 36

Total War

Answer 36

General William Tecumseh Sherman’s tactics that called for the destruction of Confederate military and economic resources

Question 37

The Confederate officers who surrendered to generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were

Answer 37

Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston

Question 38

April 9, 1865

Answer 38

General Grant accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee