chapter 14

Question 1

true or false: the battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the civil war

Answer 1

true

Question 2

true or false: Pickett’s charge was the last ditch effort by the Confederates to win at Gettysburg

Answer 2

true

Question 3

true or false: The Confederates won most of the major battles in the West

Answer 3

false

Question 4

the South’s main army in the East

Answer 4

army of the northern virginia

Question 5

diversion of the union armies by a small confederate force

Answer 5

valley campaign

Question 6

early, unsuccessful attempt to capture the southern capital

Answer 6

peninsular campaign

Question 7

northern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade

Answer 7

monitor

Question 8

southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade

Answer 8

virginia

Question 9

the north’s main army in the east

Answer 9

army of potomac

Question 10

effort to blockade the south and capture the mississippi

Answer 10

anaconda plan

Question 11

battle of Antietam

Answer 11

resulted in the emancipation proclamation

Question 12

what was the first major land battle of the war?

Answer 12

first battle of Manassas

Question 13

What was the south’s successful defense of its capital

Answer 13

Sevens days battles

Question 14

what famous speech did Lincoln give to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the war?

Answer 14

Gettysburg address

Question 15

according to the textbook, what was the central issue that sparked the war

Answer 15

states rights

Question 16

what was one of the south’s primary advantages at the outset of the war

Answer 16

better commanders

Question 17

Where did most of the fighting occur in the east

Answer 17

virginia

Question 18

What general played a critical support role in all of teh following Confederate victories?

Answer 18

stonewall Jackson

Question 19

what was the significance of the clash between the Monitor and the Virginia

Answer 19

age of wooden ships coming to a close

Question 20

describe the peninsular campaign

Answer 20

• the north lose more battles than the south
• the union army reached the outskirts of Richmond
• the southern troops were out numbered

Question 21

what was the most significant outcome of Joseph E. Johnston’s attack at Fair Oaks outside Richmond?

Answer 21

Robert E. Lee was promoted to command the army

Question 22

Which battle was the first clear-cut defeat of the army of Northern Virginia

Answer 22

the battle or Gettysburg

Question 23

Why did the North attempt to capture the Mississippi river?

Answer 23

the Mississippi divided the confederacy in two

Question 24

true or false: the loss of farm hands during the war between the states devastated agriculture in the north?

Answer 24

false

Question 25

true or false: during the war, Lincoln sometimes acted beyond his constitutional powers

Answer 25

true

Question 26

What marked the end of the south’s offensive capability

Answer 26

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 27

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 27

grants army was caught napping

Question 28

opened Tennessee to invasion

Answer 28

Forts Henry and Donelson

Question 29

the south’s successful defense of its capitol

Answer 29

Seven Day’s Battles

Question 30

what term means the draft, or the compulsory enrollment of men into military services

Answer 30

conscription

Question 31

Which state was unconstitutionally admitted into the Union during the war?

Answer 31

West Virginia

Question 32

During what campaign did Grant cut his army off from his supply bases to surprise bases to surprise his enemy

Answer 32

Vicksburg

Question 33

What caused a major riot in New York in 1863

Answer 33

conscription

Question 34

What was a border state

Answer 34

slave state that did not secede

Question 35

What event almost brought Britain into the war?

Answer 35

Trent affair

Question 36

What was Grant’s defeat?

Answer 36

battle of cold harbor

Question 37

democrats who were for peace, who sympathized with the southward opposed Lincoln

Answer 37

copperheads

Question 38

continual fighting in the woods north of Virginia

Answer 38

wilderness campaign

Question 39

shermans destruction of Georgia

Answer 39

march to the sea

Question 40

surrender of the army of northern Virginia

Answer 40

Appomattox courthouse

Question 41

effort to capture the rail center entering Richmond

Answer 41

Siege of Petersburg

Question 42

loss that gave north total control of the Mississippi

Answer 42

Siege of Vicksburg

Question 43

confederate loss that opened the door for Sherman’s march

Answer 43

Battle for Chattanooga

Question 44

resulted in the emancipation proclamation

Answer 44

Antietam

Question 45

what was the souths basic strategy for victory

Answer 45

To wage a defensive war and outlast the Norths will to fight

Question 46

which General left the army because he was accused of drunkenness

Answer 46

grant

Question 47

grant caught off his army from supplies to catch his enemies off gaurd

Answer 47

Vicksburg

Question 48

why did grant continue to fight after he lost so many battles

Answer 48

He knew he could replace his losses while the south couldn’t