Civil War Study Guide

Question 1

William Sherman

Answer 1

Union General who destroyed Atlanta with fire. 300 miles of destruction.

Question 2

Robert E. Lee

Answer 2

Confederate General

Question 3

David O. Dodd

Answer 3

17 year old spy who was caught by the Union and hanged.

Question 4

George Meade.

Answer 4

Union General.

Question 5

Clara Barton

Answer 5

Founded Red Cross

Question 6

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 6

Union General at Vicksburg. 18th President.

Question 7

Thomas Jackson

Answer 7

Known as “Stonewall Jackson” killed by his own men.

Question 8

Winfield Scott

Answer 8

Designed the Anaconda plan and was the unsuccessful president of the Whig party.

Question 9

Robert Anderson

Answer 9

Union commander at fort Sumter who had to surrender due to lack of supplies. War hero.

Question 10

Thomas Hindman

Answer 10

Lawyer on confederate side who burned everything in his way.

Question 11

Isaac Murphy

Answer 11

Union Reconstruction governor of Arkansas

Question 12

George Pickett

Answer 12

Led Pickett’s charge which failed

Question 13

Bounty

Answer 13

Encouraged be to enlist in the military rather than be drafted

Question 14

Camp Nelson

Answer 14

Largest Recruiting for Africans, as well as Union supply Depot and Hospital Facility

Question 15

Appomattox Court House

Answer 15

Where Lee signed treaty papers

Question 16

Copperheads

Answer 16

Northern Democrats

Question 17

King Cotton

Answer 17

Term used by southerners to describe how cotton was the economic “King”

Question 18

Anaconda Plan

Answer 18

Plan in which north would blockade Mississippi River to cut off the south to the outside world.

Question 19

Bushwhackers

Answer 19

Missourians who fled to live in the woods and resist Union occupation.

Question 20

Jayhawks

Answer 20

Applies to bands of robbers, associated with Kansas free starter

Question 21

Calvary

Answer 21

Part of military force composed of troops on horseback.

Question 22

Infantry

Answer 22

Foot soldiers

Question 23

Battle of Antietam

Answer 23

Bloodiest single day ending in a Union victory

Question 24

Battle of Wilsons Creek

Answer 24

First major battle of the Trans-Mississippi theater of the American civil war

Question 25

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 25

Changed slaves to "free"

Question 26

Gettysburg Adress

Answer 26

Talked about human equality

Question 27

Capital of AR after the fall of little rock.

Answer 27

Washington, AR

Question 28

Number of AR soldiers who fought for Confederacy and Union

Answer 28

56,000

Question 29

Number of Soldiers who fought for the Confederacy

Answer 29

1,082,119

Question 30

Number of soldiers who fought for the Union

Answer 30

2,128,948

Question 31

President of Confederacy

Answer 31

Jefferson Davis

Question 32

President of Union

Answer 32

Abraham Lincoln

Question 33

Capital of Union

Answer 33

Washington D.C

Question 34

Capital of Confederacy

Answer 34

Richmond, VA

Question 35

Red River Plan

Answer 35

Union hope to capture everything along the Red River in Louisiana and continue into Texas.

Question 36

Marks Mill

Answer 36

Union Force escorted 240 wagons from Camden to Pine Bluff to pick up supplies.

Question 37

Patrick Cleburne

Answer 37

Came up with the idea for Africans to fight for us

Question 38

54th Massachusetts regiment

Answer 38

First all black regiment. "Bravest of the brave."

Question 39

When did Lincoln decide to raise a real army?

Answer 39

After the emancipation proclamation.

Question 40

States that seceded after fall of Fort Sumter

Answer 40

AR, VA, NC, TN

Question 41

Where did the 1st battle of bull run take place?

Answer 41

William county, Virginia

Question 42

What 2 major immigrant groups helped the Union?

Answer 42

Irish and German

Question 43

Union Generals in Pea ridge, prairie grove, and Helena.

Answer 43

Pea ridge- Samuel L. Curtis Prairie Grove- General James G. Blunt Helena- Benjamin Prentiss

Question 44

Confederate Generals in Pea Ridge and Wilsons Creek.

Answer 44

Wilsons- Ben McCulloch | Pea- Earl Van Dorn Sterling Price

Question 45

Who is David Farragut?

Answer 45

Flag officer during the civil war. Commanded the Union blockade of the western Gulf of Mexico. Helped secure the victory at Vicksburg.

Question 46

What were the reasons for NOT issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 46

- Anger pro Union states - Many white Northerners opposed emancipation - Lincoln wanted to tie the Union, abolition would divide it