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 Potomac

Question 4

Democrats who were for peace, who sympathized 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 Manassa

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 Days’ 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

States’ 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 Days’ Battles, Second Manassas, and Chancellorsville

Answer 26

Stonewall Jackson

Question 27

Iron plated war ship

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 territories already under Union control

Answer 30

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Blockade Runner

Question 32

Battle that on the final day 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

What was one of the South’s primary advantages at the outset of the war

Answer 34

Better Commanders

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Age of wooden ships began to come to a close

Question 36

Which battle was the bloodiest DAY of the Civil War

Answer 36

Antietam

Question 37

What caused a major riot in New York in 1863

Answer 37

Conscription

Question 38

A slave state that did not secede was considered a

Answer 38

Border state

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Atlanta

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Vicksburg

Question 41

Describe the strategy behind General Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan

Answer 41

• Scott proposed a blockade of Southern ports to compound the Confederacy’s supply problems.
• He also proposed the capture of the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy and hamper its ability to move men and supplies from east to west
• Since Scott believed that a quick military victory over the South was unlikely, his plan involved slowly cutting off the Confederacy’s ability to make war by dividing and conquering the South’s heartland

Question 42

In which way did the war benefit the Northern Homefront

Answer 42

1. With farm hands away fighting, farmers who remained at home had to rely more heavily on mechanical means to do their work. As a result, Northern farms began to produce more foodstuffs during the war than they had before.
2. Likewise, heavy industries, such as iron working, profited from the army’s need for cannons, iron for ships, and other armaments.