Events of the war Q.2

Question 1

The South believed that it could defeat the North because the South was fighting on its own home ground.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

England did not support the South because England realized that it needed Northern wheat more than Southern cotton.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Best describes the reason the U.S. Dakota War started during the Civil War?

Answer 3

government fell behind on promised payments and supplies for the Dakota people

Question 4

Which general was ordered to move into the Shenandoah valley to appear as if he were going to attack Richmond.

Answer 4

General Jackson

Question 5

Hispanic immigrants in the North typically chose to ___________ during the war.

Answer 5

fight for the union

Question 6

Lincoln’s election caused South Carolina to secede from the Union.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Frustrated by his performance as general, Lincoln dismissed General ________ after the Battle of Antietam.

Answer 7

McClellan

Question 8

What was the North’s battle strategy?

Answer 8

• Capture Richmond
• Capture the Mississippi and divide the South in half
• Blockade Southern ports

Question 9

What’s true about the South’s war effort:

Answer 9

• planned on fighting a defensive war
• hoped to receive help from France.
• hoped to receive help from England

Question 10

Whats true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 10

• issued after the battle at Antietam
• Lincoln issued it to shorten the war
• It ensured that England wouldn’t support the South.

Question 11

Northern generals

Answer 11

Sherman
McClellan
Burnside
Grant

Question 12

Southern generals

Answer 12

Lee
Jackson

Question 13

The North had the advantage over the South in all of the following except:

Answer 13

generals

Question 14

The first state that Grant invaded in the West was:

Answer 14

Tennesse

Question 15

Lee’s campaign to take over Maryland was stopped at the battle of:

Answer 15

Antietam

Question 16

The battle of Gettysburg began when Confederate soldiers were caught looking for:

Answer 16

shoes

Question 17

Which General captured Atlanta?

Answer 17

sherman

Question 18

At the peace talks held at Hampton Road, Lincoln offered peace on the following conditions:

Answer 18

• reunion of the states
• emancipation of slaves

Question 19

a march of destruction

Answer 19

Sherman

Question 20

the capital of the Confederacy

Answer 20

Richmond

Question 21

the president of the Confederacy

Answer 21

Jefferson Davis

Question 22

the North’s ironclad

Answer 22

Monitor

Question 23

captured New Orleans

Answer 23

Admiral Farragut

Question 24

the South gains confidence

Answer 24

Battle of Bull Run

Question 25

the struggle between proslavery and antislavery groups

Answer 25

"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 26

Lee surrenders

Answer 26

Appomattox Court House

Question 27

the last Confederate offensive

Answer 27

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 28

the South's ironclad

Answer 28

Virginia

Question 29

cut communication with the South

Answer 29

Battle of Petersburg

Question 30

gained control of all of the Mississippi River

Answer 30

Battle of Vicksburg

Question 31

led Northern forces in the West

Answer 31

General Grant

Question 32

"Stonewall" Jackson was killed

Answer 32

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 33

an attempt to capture Maryland

Answer 33

Battle of Antietam

Question 34

commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 34

General Lee