Lesson 35&36

Question 1

slavery (Started in

Answer 1

1619

Question 2

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 2

was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Question 3

Robert E Lee

Answer 3

Christians in the south

Question 4

Confederate

Answer 4

wore gray uniforms, and were nicknamed the rebels by their enemies.

Question 5

Union

Answer 5

The Northern States during the Civil War

Blue

Yanks

Question 6

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 6

Brave commander of the Confederate Army that led troops at Bull Run. He died in the confusion at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 7

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

Question 8

William Sherman

Answer 8

Union General who destroyed South during the “march to the sea” from Atlanta to Savannah, an example of total war

Question 9

George Meade

Answer 9

During the American Civil War, he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Question 10

Ironclads

Answer 10

Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War. They had scraps of iron on them and had 10 guns on each side.

Question 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 11

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the Confederate states would be free

Question 12

Gettysburg Address

Answer 12

(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights

Question 13

Sherman’s March

Answer 13

Sherman’s March to the Sea, (November 15-December 21, 1864) American Civil War campaign that concluded Union operations in the Confederate state of Georgia. After seizing Atlanta, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman embarked on a scorched-earth campaign intended to cripple the South’s war-making capacity and wound the Confederate psyche. Sherman’s army marched 285 miles (458 km) east from Atlanta to the coastal town of Savannah, which surrendered without a siege. Sherman’s 37-day campaign is remembered as one of the most successful examples of “total war,” and its psychological effects persisted in the postbellum South.

Question 14

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 14

Confederate forces surprised Union troops & drove them across the Tennesee River; the Union got back up and won the battle but it was one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War

Question 15

Battle of Antietam

Answer 15

Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee’s Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Question 16

Pickett’s Charge

Answer 16

a failed Confederate attack during the Civil War led by General George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Question 17

Jefferson Davis

Answer 17

President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War

Question 18

Battle of the Bull Run

Answer 18

July 21, 1861. Va. (outside of D.C.) People watched battle. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson: Confederate general, held his ground and stood in battle like a “stone wall.” Union retreated. Confederate victory. Showed that both sides needed training and war would be long and bloody

Question 19

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 19

1863 Union army’s blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War