Chapter 9 People and Events

Question 1

Confederate General from Virginia, received offer from Winfield Scott to command Unions troops, but stayed true to his region

Answer 1

Robert E. Lee

Question 2

Nickname for peace democrats because they opposed war and called for reunited the states through negotiation.

Answer 2

Copperheads

Question 3

man from Virginia, sent to Great Britain for the confederacy to negotiate

Answer 3

James Mason

Question 4

man from Lousianna, sent to France for the confederacy to negotiate

Answer 4

John Slidell

Question 5

British ship carrying Mason and Slidell being intercepted by the Union

Answer 5

Trent Affair

Question 6

Winfield Scotts plan to win war, Union blockades conferderate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to split Confederacy in half

Answer 6

Anaconda Plan

Question 7

Confederate reinforcement leader, went on to become one of the most effective commanders in the Confederate Army

Answer 7

“Stonewall” Jackson

Question 8

leader of Union Navy, after capturing New Orleans he was named hero.

Answer 8

David G. Farragut

Question 9

Union General,seized Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, led Battle of Shiloh

Answer 9

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 10

Union general, cautious and unwilling to attack,Battle of Antietam crucial victory for the Union

Answer 10

George B. McClellan

Question 11

issued by Abraham Lincoln after Battle of Antietam, freeing all enslaved person in states still in rebellion

Answer 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 12

One of the first African American regiments organized in the North, fought valiantly at Fort Wagner near Charleston Harbor

Answer 12

54th Massachusetts

Question 13

First female physician of the United States

Answer 13

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 14

Elizabeth Blackwell’s work led to this, an organization that proved medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals.

Answer 14

United States Sanitary Commission

Question 15

Nursed soldiers on the battlefield

Answer 15

Clara Barton

Question 16

Union general that replaced McClellan, led battle of Fredericksburg

Answer 16

Ambrose Burnsides

Question 17

Union general that replaced Burnsides, was attacked by Lee in dense woods known as the Wilderness, near Chancellorsville, Virginia

Answer 17

Joseph Hooker

Question 18

Union general that replaced Hooker, fought at Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 18

George Meade

Question 19

under command of general George E. Pickett, confederacy, where 7,000 casulaties happened in less than half an hour of fighting

Answer 19

Pickett’s Charge

Question 20

General that Grant ordered to attack Confederate positions on the north end of the ridge, Missionary Ridge

Answer 20

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 21

Union general of attempted distraction, calvary raid north and west of Richmond

Answer 21

Philip Sheridan

Question 22

nickname for when shermans troops destroyed the rail lines and twisted them into snarls of steel

Answer 22

Sherman neckties

Question 23

November 15, 1864, Shermans troops cute a path through Georgia, while ransacking houses, burning crops and killing cattle, at the end they had reached the coast and seized the city of Savannah

Answer 23

March to the Sea

Question 24

amendment thatbanned slavery in the United States

Answer 24

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 25

where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9th, 1865

Answer 25

Appomattox Courthouse