civil war

Question 1

Thomas Jackson

Answer 1

A Confederate general who earned the nickname “Stonewall” for defense at 1st bull run

Question 2

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 2

union general who won at Shiloh, Vicksburg, and forced Lee to surrender at end of the the war

Question 3

secede

Answer 3

to formally leave

Question 4

copperheads

Answer 4

democrats who opposed the war and were imprisoned by lincoln

Question 5

anaconda plan

Answer 5

strategy to blockade southern ports and surround and cut off the confederacy

Question 6

Abraham lincoln

Answer 6

union president during the civil war

Question 7

Robert E. Lee

Answer 7

confederate general; won victories at bull run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, but lost Gettysburg and forced to surrender to grant

Question 8

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 8

union general who “marched to the sea” destroying every of confederacy use

Question 9

David Farragut

Answer 9

union naval officer who captured new Orleans and mobile bay

Question 10

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Answer 10

a controversial Confederate cavalry officer

Question 11

emancipation proclamation

Answer 11

the order which freed slaves in rebellious states allowed African American soldiers to serve in the Union army

Question 12

total war

Answer 12

destroying anything helpful to the enemy

Question 13

Gettysburg address

Answer 13

the speech was given by lincoln inspiring the union to fight and remember the dead and preserve the USA’s founding ideas

Question 14

Jefferson Davis

Answer 14

confederate president during the civil war