Grade 8

Question 1

What was the goal of Fort Sumter

Answer 1

Control of Charleston Harbor

Question 2

What were the border states

Answer 2

Delaware,
Kentucky,
Maryland,
Missouri

Question 3

Confederate General who died in the battle of Chancellorsville (accident by one of his own men)

Answer 3

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 4

Symbols a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers. Was in the army of Potomac

Answer 4

George B. McCellan

Question 5

Confederate General. Virginia came under his command. Graduate of IS Military Academy

Answer 5

Robert E. Lee

Question 6

Also known as the battle of Manassas. July 21, 1861. First major battle of civil war

Answer 6

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 7

June 25-July 1, 1862

Six battles occurred in this. Forced the union army to retreat from Richmond

Answer 7

Seven Days’ Battles

Question 8

Three day battle Jackson month defeat popes army before could join up with army of Potomac

Answer 8

Second Battle of Bull Run

Question 9

Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War. First battle in northern territory

Answer 9

Battle of Antietam

Question 10

18th president. Field promotion to Lieutenant General

Answer 10

Ulysses Grant

Question 11

April 6-7, 1862, Fought for control of Tenessee

Answer 11

Battle of Shiloh

Question 12

May 1863. Wanted control of Missouri. Grant and his troops cut off and shelled city

Answer 12

Siege of Vicksburg

Question 13

April 29, 1862. South surrendered. Wanted control of mississippi river

Answer 13

Capture of new orleans

Question 14

Overturned the Dred Scott case. Written by Lincoln, ordered a free Confederates states

Answer 14

Emancipation proclamation

Question 15

Escaped slaves

Answer 15

Contrabands

Question 16

Midwesterners that sympathized with South unopposed abolition

Answer 16

Copperheads

Question 17

Made slavery illegal. Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Answer 17

Habeas Corpus

Question 18

Union general who triggered the battle of Gettysburg

Answer 18

George B. Meade

Question 19

Confederate General who commanded the largest unit of soldiers.

Answer 19

George Pickett

Question 20

Fields Confederate attack up Cemetery ridge

Answer 20

Picketts Charge

Question 21

Union troops launch______________, a series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond Virginia

Answer 21

Wilderness Campaign

Question 22

Union general who carried out the union plan to destroy Southern railroads and industries

Answer 22

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 23

President Lincoln gave a speech called the _____________________, in which he praised the bravery of union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War

Answer 23

Gettysburg Adress

Question 24

The small town where Lee surrendered to Grant, thus ending the Civil War

Answer 24

Appomattox courthouse

Question 25

What was the first military attack in the civil war (started the war)?

Answer 25

Fort Sumter