Chapter 17

Question 1

What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 1

Richmond Virginia

Question 2

What were border states?

Answer 2

States that were divided over the issue of slavery

Question 3

Did the Union or Confederacy have the larger army?

Answer 3

Union

Question 4

What was the main goal for the North at the beginning of the war?

Answer 4

To reunite the confederacy

Question 5

What was the name of the Union war plan to choke out the Confederacy?

Answer 5

Anaconda plan

Question 6

What was the main goal for the South in the Civil War?

Answer 6

To Preserve their way of life

Question 7

How did both sides name battles in the Civil War?

Answer 7

South- after cities

North- land marks

Question 8

What was the first major battle of the Civil War?

Answer 8

Battle of Bull Run

Question 9

Who were the two generals of the First Battle of Bull Run?

Answer 9

Union led by General Irivin

Confederate sled by General P.G.T. Beauregard

Question 10

Why did the Confederate troops become inspired during the First Battle of Bull
Run?

Answer 10

Inspired by reinforcements led by General Thomas Jackson

Question 11

Who was one of the most gifted tactical commanders in American History and was
a Confederate General at Bull Run?

Answer 11

Thomas “Stone Wall” Jackson

Question 12

What caused the Union troops to drop their weapons and retreat in the First Battle
of Bull Run?

Answer 12

The confederate let out loud and strange screams, a Rebel yell

Question 13

Why did the Confederate troops not pursue the fight after their victory at Bull
Run?

Answer 13

Confederates were too weak and disorganized

Question 14

What battles gave the Union control of the Columbia and Tennessee Rivers?

Answer 14

The Battle of Fort Henry and Battle of Fort Donelson

Question 15

What was the warship that the South rebuilt with iron plates on the sides?

Answer 15

Merrimack

Question 16

What was the general name for iron plated ships that the South used to break
through the North’s defense?

Answer 16

Iron sides

Question 17

What was the Battle of Shiloh named after?

Answer 17

A church near Ulysses S. grant and his soldiers’ resting place

Question 18

What was the single bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War?

Answer 18

Battle of Antietam

Question 19

What did Lincoln shift his focus in the war towards after Antietam?

Answer 19

Slavery

Question 20

The Civil War was the first time thousands of women did what?

Answer 20

Served as nurses

Question 21

What were the 3 reasons the Southern economy suffered more than that of the
North?

Answer 21

Lack of industries, shortages of essential goods goods, and farmland being overrun

Question 22

What did Lincoln sign on January 1st, 1863?

Answer 22

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

Who believed that the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was the greatest
event in US History?

Answer 23

Fredrick Douglass

Question 24

What was the most well known African-American regiment in the Civil War?

Answer 24

54th Massachusetts

Question 25

What was the turning point of the Civil War?

Answer 25

Battle of Gettysburg and Battle of Vicksburg

Question 26

What speech was about equality, freedom, and states’ rights no longer being
dominant?

Answer 26

The Gettysburg Address

Question 27

What three things was the Gettysburg Address about?

Answer 27

Equality, freedom, and states rights no longer being dominant

Question 28

What was important about David Farragut?

Answer 28

He helped secure Mobile Bay in Alabama

Question 29

Where was Sherman’s “march to the sea” headed toward?

Answer 29

Savannah, Georgia

Question 30

How severe were the terms of surrender at Appomattox Court House toward the
Southern troops?

Answer 30

Very forgiving

Question 31

What treaty ended the Civil War?

Answer 31

No official treaty

Question 32

How many soldiers died in the Civil War?

Answer 32

Around 600,000

Question 33

How did the balance in power settle between the federal gov’t and state gov’ts after
the war?

Answer 33

Federal government was strengthened and was now clearly more powerful than the states