Chapter 17

Question 1

defensive war

Answer 1

basic strategy of South; outlast the North

Question 2

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 2

Union (Sherman) burned Atlanta then continued to sea destroying everything in path; total war

Question 3

teens in war

Answer 3

many served; lied about age; drummer boys

Question 4

54th Massachusetts regiment

Answer 4

served with distinction (served well) at Fort Wagner; most distinguished African American regiment in Union army

Question 5

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 5

narrow Union victory

Question 6

Yankees

Answer 6

Northern/Union soldiers

Question 7

entrenched

Answer 7

in a protected position

Question 8

casualties

Answer 8

people killed, wounded, missing, or taken prisoner in battle

Question 9

resistance

Answer 9

refusal to give in

Question 10

Rebels

Answer 10

Southern/Confederate soldiers

Question 11

control of Mississippi River

Answer 11

Union goal to prevent supplies from reaching eastern Confederacy

Question 12

Merrimack

Answer 12

damaged Union ship; rebuilt & covered in iron by Confederates

Question 13

General Grant’s nickname

Answer 13

Unconditional Surrender

Question 14

South expected support from…?

Answer 14

Britain & France because of disrupted supply of cotton

Question 15

Confederate success because of which generals

Answer 15

Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson

Question 16

abolitionists who urged war to fight slavery

Answer 16

Frederick Douglass & Horace Greeley

Question 17

Battle of Antietam

Answer 17

single deadliest day of Civil War

Question 18

African Americans as soliders

Answer 18

used in North after Emancipation Proclamation; used in South as last resort near end of war

Question 19

Dorothea Dix urged what

Answer 19

let women work as nurses in war

Question 20

Confederate capital

Answer 20

Richmond, Virginia

Question 21

significance of Maryland to Union

Answer 21

close to Richmond (Confederate capital)
close to Washington, D.C. (Union capital)
if Maryland seceded, Union govt. would be surrounded

Question 22

ESSAY

Why was Pres. Lincoln reluctant at first to emancipate enslaved African Americans?

Answer 22

• hesitated because fear of losing border states

- white Northerners who disliked slavery didn’t necessarily want to lose lives over it

Question 23

ESSAY

Why did he decide to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 23

• Douglass & Greeley urged Lincoln to make war a fight to end slavery
• slavery was root of divisions between North & South
• if war was about slavery, Britain & France would be less likely to help the South
• Emancipation Proc. didn’t actually free anyone, but said govt. believed slavery was wrong & would end if Union won the war