Civil War Final

Question 1

Sherman’s plan to go through confederate towns instead of occupying them and destroying them.

Answer 1

Raiding Strategy

Question 2

Confederate officer in charge of Harper’s Ferry and obtained first confederate victory

Answer 2

Johnston

Question 3

Battle where confederates got first victory at Manassas with Johnston

Answer 3

Battle of Bull Run

Question 4

Officer of the Union in Virginia who was not successful and had no experience. Always avoided combat

Answer 4

McClellan

Question 5

Union General in Mississippi, very successful

Answer 5

Grant

Question 6

Grant’s first major win against Confederacy

Answer 6

Battle of Shiloh

Question 7

Naval battle between ironclads at Chesapeake Bay

Answer 7

Monitor (union) vs Virginia (Confederacy)

Question 8

Who led the Shenandoah Valley Campaign and what happened

Answer 8

Led by Stonewall Jackson and Lee, where they cleared the valley from Port Royal

Question 9

Battle where McClellan lost, causing Lincoln to replace him, and McClellan was begging for reinforcements they did not have

Answer 9

Seven Days Battle

Question 10

law that ordered the union to steal slaves from south, marking them contraband of war

Answer 10

First Confiscation Act

Question 11

Law that empowered seizure of all confederate property including slaves

Answer 11

Second Confiscation Act

Question 12

Law that states President can use black people in any way he sees fit allowing them to join the Union army if they escape

Answer 12

Militia Act of 1862

Question 13

Law that freed all slaves not in the Union, where Lincoln waited for a major battle victory to enact, which he got at Gettysburg

Answer 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 14

The 3 campaigns of 1864

Answer 14

Sherman raids Atlanta, Grant siezes Richmond, Banks seizes new Orleans

Question 15

Turning points in the war

Answer 15

Antietam Campaign (gettysburgh), Battle of Vicksburg