Lesson 4

Question 1

Why did confederacy win number of battles in the east after Antietam

Answer 1

Because generals lee and Jackson were so good at their jobs

Often defeated Union armies in battle even though they had fewer soldiers

Question 2

Battle of Fredericksburg

Answer 2

1st Confederate victory

General burnside decided he would march against General Lee toward Richmond

Lee won. Burnside lost. Used the strategy of trenches

Question 3

Entrench

Answer 3

To place within a trench, or ditch, for defense

Question 4

Flank

Answer 4

Side or edge of a military formation

Question 5

Victory at Chancellorsville

Answer 5

2nd Confederate victory

Union had new leader, General Hooker
Union had 2x the solders Lee did

Lee and Jackson used the strategy of dividing army and surprised Union army flanks

Question 6

What tragedy happened at Chancellorsville

Answer 6

Jackson was wounded. Lost his left arm, then caught pneumonia, and died a week later. 1 of souths greatest leaders was dead

Question 7

Why was Lincoln disappointed with his generals?

Answer 7

None of them wanted to fight

Question 8

Lincoln was disappointed with McClellan because

Answer 8

He seemed to not want to do battle. He didn’t obey Lincoln’s orders to follow the Confederate troops after the Unions victory at Antietam

Question 9

Disappointed with burnside because

Answer 9

He lost at Fredericksburg. Lincoln replaced him with Hooker

Question 10

Disappointed with hooker because

Answer 10

Lost at Chancellorsville. Within 2 months, hooker resigned too

Question 11

General Meade

Answer 11

Lincolnshire next choice. Took position days before one of the wars greatest battles

Question 12

What percent of Union soldiers were African Americans?

Answer 12

10%

Question 13

54th Massachusetts

Answer 13

Commanded by Robert Gould Shaw

Best-known African American Regiment

Served on front lines in an assault on Fort Wagner in S.C.

Conf. Gunfire caused 300 casualties including Shaw in the 54th alone

Question 14

Order of Union generals

Answer 14

McClellan
Burnside
Hooker
Meade

Question 15

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 15

Union won

Union- 23,00 casualties
Confederacy- 25,000 casualties
Union under general Meade

Pickett’s Charge was on 3rd day
Picketers charge was when General George Pickett led thousands of confederate troops in attack on unions position at cemetery ridge. They advanced across open land directly in the line of fire

Gettysburg ended Confederacy’s hope of gaining help from Britain and France

Question 16

July 4

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 16

Say after Lee retreated form Gettysburg, the important River city of Vicksburg, Mississippi fell under Union control led by Ulysses s. Grant

Lasted 47 days
9,000 confederate casualties
10,000 Union casualties
Union gained complete control of Mississippi River. Union split the south in 2

Question 17

Gettysburg address

Answer 17

Gathered to dedicate the Soldiers national cemetery at Gettysburg

Edward Everett spoke 2 hours
Lincoln spoke 2 minutes

Question 18

Stonewall Jackson was for who

Answer 18

South