Unit 13

Question 1

What were the capitals of the Union and the Confederacy?

Answer 1

Washington D.C. (Union) and Richmond, Virginia (Confederate)

Question 2

What rail center was Grant heading for when he was attacked at Shiloh?

Answer 2

Corinth

Question 3

What Confederate commanding general was killed at Shiloh?

Answer 3

Albert Sidney Johnson

Question 4

How high were the casualties at Shiloh?

Answer 4

20,000 were killed and wounded

Question 5

Where did Lee first invade the Union?

Answer 5

Antietam (Sharpsburg)

Question 6

What two commanders led the opposing forces at Stones River?

Answer 6

Braxton Bragg (Confederate) and William Rosecrans (Union)

Question 7

Who won at the battle of Shiloh?

Answer 7

Union

Question 8

Who won at the battle of Second Bull Run?

Answer 8

Confederate

Question 9

Who won at the battle of Antietam?

Answer 9

Union

Question 10

Who won at the battle of Fredericksburg?

Answer 10

Confederate

Question 11

Who won at the battle of Stones River?

Answer 11

Union

Question 12

Where did the Emancipation Proclamation apply?

Answer 12

To the slaves in the area which were still in rebellion

Question 13

How many African-Americans served in the Union army?

Answer 13

200,000

Question 14

Why did Lee invade the Union again?

Answer 14

He thought it might relieve the pressure on Vicksburg, give renewed legitimacy to the Confederate cause, and perhaps even end the war

Question 15

On what occasion did Lincoln deliver his Gettysburg Address?

Answer 15

At the ceremony dedicated to the national cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield

Question 16

Who won at the battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 16

Union

Question 17

Who won at the battle of Chickamauga?

Answer 17

Confederate

Question 18

Who won at the battle of Lookout Mountain?

Answer 18

Union

Question 19

Who was the last general-in-chief that Lincoln appointed?

Answer 19

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 20

What Union general took Atlanta and led the March Across Georgia?

Answer 20

General William Sherman

Question 21

Who was Lincoln’s vice presidential nominee in 1864?

Answer 21

Andrew Johnson

Question 22

Who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864?

Answer 22

George McClellan

Question 23

Where was the last push of the Confederate war effort in the west?

Answer 23

Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee

Question 24

Where did Lee surrender?

Answer 24

In a farmhouse near the village of Appomattox Court House

Question 25

When and where was Lincoln assassinated?

Answer 25

He was shot on April 14, 1865, at Lincoln’s balcony box at Ford’s Theater in Washington. He died the next day

Question 26

Who shot Lincoln?

Answer 26

John Wiles Booth

Question 27

Who else were targets of assassins the same evening?

Answer 27

Secretary of State William Seward was stabbed but recovered, and VP Andrew Johnson was a target, but was not taken out

Question 28

How were military companies usually organized?

Answer 28

By localities

Question 29

From what countries did the Confederacy try to get recognition?

Answer 29

Great Britain and France

Question 30

Who were Copperheads?

Answer 30

Northern Democrats who pressed for truce in the fighting and were also sympathetic to the South (also called Peace Democrats)