Chapter 21

Question 0

George McClellan

Answer 0

Union general who repudiated his party’s Copperhead platform and polled 45 percent of the popular vote in 1864.

Question 1

Bull Run

Answer 1

Site of Union defeat in very early battle of the war.

Question 2

Robert E. Lee

Answer 2

Gentlemanly top commander of the Confederate army.

Question 3

Antietam

Answer 3

Crucial battle in Maryland that staved off European recognition of the Confederacy.

Question 4

“Stonewall” Jackson

Answer 4

Daring Southern commander killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Question 5

George Pickett

Answer 5

Southern officer whose failed charge at Gettysburg marked “the high water mark of the Confederacy”.

Question 6

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 6

Union commander who first made his mark with victories in the West.

Question 7

Gettysburg

Answer 7

Site where Lee’s last major invasion of the North was turned back.

Question 8

Vicksburg

Answer 8

Fortress whose capture split the Confederacy in two.

Question 9

William T. Sherman

Answer 9

Ruthless Northern general who waged a march through Georgia.

Question 10

Clement Vallandigham

Answer 10

Notorious Copperhead, convicted of treason, who ran for governor of Ohio while exiled to Canada.

Question 11

Salmon P. Chase

Answer 11

Ambitious secretary of the treasury who wanted to replace Lincoln as president in 1664.

Question 12

The Wilderness

Answer 12

Site of one of Grant’s bloody battles with the Confederates near Richmond in 1864.

Question 13

Andrew Johnson

Answer 13

Southern War Democrat who ran as Lincoln’s “Union party” vice-presidential candidate in 1864.

Question 14

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 14

Fanatical actor whose act of violence actually harmed the South.

Question 15

First major battle of the Civil War, in which untrained Northern troops and civilian picnickers fled back to Washington.

Answer 15

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 16

McClellan’s disastrously unsuccessful attempt to end the war quickly by a back-door conquest of Richmond.

Answer 16

Peninsula Campaign

Question 17

Key battle of 1862 that forestalled European intervention to aid the Confederacy and led to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Answer 17

Battle of Antietam

Question 18

Document that proclaimed a war against slavery and guaranteed a fight to the finish.

Answer 18

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 19

General U.S. Grant’s nickname, taken from his military demand to the enemy at Fort Donelson and elsewhere.

Answer 19

Unconditional Surrender

Question 20

Crucial Confederate fortress on the Mississippi whose fall to Grant in 1863 cut the South in two.

Answer 20

Vicksburg

Question 21

Pennsylvania battle that ended Lee’s last hopes of achieving victory through an invasion of the North.

Answer 21

Gettysburg

Question 22

Mississippi site where black soldiers were massacred after their surrender.

Answer 22

Fort Pillow

Question 23

Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War and sympathized with the South.

Answer 23

Copperheads

Question 24

Edward Everett Hale’s story of treason and banishment, inspired by the wartime banishing of Copperhead Clement Vallandigham.

Answer 24

The Man Without a Country

Question 25

The temporary 1864 coalition of Republicans and War Democrats that backed Lincoln’s re-election.

Answer 25

Union party

Question 26

Washington site where Lincoln was assassinated by Booth on April 14, 1865.

Answer 26

Ford’s Theater

Question 27

Virginia site where Lee surrendered to Grant in April 1865

Answer 27

Appomattox Court House

Question 28

Romantic name given to the Southern fight for independence, indicating nobility despite defeat.

Answer 28

The Lost Cause

Question 29

Georgia city captured and burned by Sherman just before the election of 1864.

Answer 29

Atlanta