Chapter 14

Question 1

Effort to blockade the South and capture the Mississippi River.

Answer 1

Anaconda plan

Question 2

The South’s main army in the East.

Answer 2

Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 3

The North’s main army in the East.

Answer 3

Army of the Potomac

Question 4

Democrats who were for peace,who sympathized with the South,and who opposed Lincoln.

Answer 4

Copperheads

Question 5

Sherman’s destruction of Georgia.

Answer 5

March to the sea

Question 6

Northern ironclad with a revolving gun turret.

Answer 6

Monitor

Question 7

Early, unsuccessful attempt to capture the Southern Capital

Answer 7

Peninsular Campaign

Question 8

Diversion of two Union armies by a small Confederate force.

Answer 8

Valley Campaign

Question 9

Southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade.

Answer 9

Virginia

Question 10

Continual fighting in the woods north of Richmond.

Answer 10

Wilderness Campaign

Question 11

Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Answer 11

Appomattox Court House

Question 12

Confederate loss that opened the door for Sherman’s march.

Answer 12

Battle of Chattanooga

Question 13

Resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation.

Answer 13

Battle of Antietam

Question 14

Marked the end of the South’s offensive capabilities.

Answer 14

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 15

Grant’s army was caught “napping”.

Answer 15

Battle of Shiloh

Question 16

First major land battle of the war.

Answer 16

First Battle of Manassas

Question 17

Opened Tennessee to invasion.

Answer 17

Forts Henry and Donelson.

Question 18

The South’s successful defense of its capital.

Answer 18

Seven Day’s Battles

Question 19

Efforts to capture the rail center feeding Richmond.

Answer 19

Siege of Petersburg

Question 20

Loss that gave the North total control of the Mississippi River.

Answer 20

Siege of Vicksburg

Question 21

Famous speech given by Lincoln to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the war.

Answer 21

Gettysburg Address

Question 22

The draft or compulsory enrollment of men into military service.

Answer 22

Conscription

Question 23

State unconstitutionally admitted into the Union during the war.

Answer 23

West Virginia

Question 24

This was the central issue that sparked the war.

Answer 24

State’s rights

Question 25

General who once left the army because of alleged drunkenness.

Answer 25

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 26

General who played a critical support role in the Confederate victories 1st Manassas,Seven Day’s Battles,Second Manassas,&Chancellorville.

Answer 26

Thomas(stonewall)Jackson

Question 27

Iron plated warship.

Answer 27

Ironclad

Question 28

Military strategist who was assistant to Jefferson Davis.

Answer 28

Robert E.Lee

Question 29

This event almost brought Britain into the war.

Answer 29

Trent affair

Question 30

With this President Lincoln,all slaves in rebel-controlled territory would be freed .It excluded slaves in the Union’s border states and in Confederate territory

Answer 30

Emancipation proclamation

Question 31

Merchant ships that risked the wrath of the Union navy to bring supplies to into Southern sports.

Answer 31

Blockade Runners

Question 32

Battle that on the final day left entrenched Confederate positions that left 7,000 Union soldiers dead.

Answer 32

Battle of cold Harbor

Question 33

This battle and the fall of this city helped ensure Lincoln’s re-election.

Answer 33

Battle of Atlanta

Question 34

The capture of what city ensured Lincoln’s reelection in 1864?

Answer 34

Atlanta

Question 35

During what daring campaign did Grant cut his army off from his supply based to surprise his enemy?

Answer 35

Vicksburg campaign

Question 36

A slave state that did not secede was considered a?

Answer 36

Border state(they didn’t join, leave the union)

Question 37

Which battle was the bloodiest day?

Answer 37

Battle of Antietam

Question 38

What was last effort by confederation to win Gettysburg?

Answer 38

Pickett

Question 39

Lincoln act beyond his constitutional power?(T/F)

Answer 39

True

Question 40

What is the bloodiest war in American history?

Answer 40

Civil war

Question 41

What was the Souths primary advantage in the outset of the war?

Answer 41

Better commanders

Question 42

What was the Souths basic strategy for the war?

Answer 42

To wage defensive war and to outlast the will to fight.

Question 44

Where did most of the fighting East take place ?

Answer 44

Virginia

Question 46

What was the significant between the clash monitor and the Virginia?

Answer 46

The age of wooden ships was coming to an end.

Question 48

What was the significant outcome of Josefine fair oaks outside richmond?

Answer 48

Robert Lee was promoted to lead the army.

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 50

Why did the north want to capture the Mississippi river?

Answer 50

The Mississippi divided the confederation in two.

Question 50

What caused a major riot in New York?

Answer 50

Conscription

Question 50

Why did Grant continue after losing so many men?

Answer 50

He knew he could replace

Question 50

Describe strategy behind Anaconda plan? (Pg.285)

Answer 50

The North would have to invade the South, thus becoming the belligerent, and defeat the Southern armies in the field.

Question 51

What are two ways of the war benefited the Northern home front ?(pg.299-300)

Answer 51

1) Most farm hands away fighting.

2) Farmers learned to rely more heavily on machinery.