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Test Friday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A main part of the North's military strategy was to use a ______________ to close Southern ports? | blockade |
| Union soldiers were called? | Yankees |
| An efficient railway network was one of the South’s strengths. | False |
| Confederate soldiers were called? | Rebels |
| For the North, the primary goal was to preserve/restore the Union. | True |
| The South’s goal in the Civil War was to become an independent nation. | True |
| Which was the most vital border state for the Union? | Maryland |
| What was one of the main advantages of the South? | excellent military leaders |
| Slavery was banned in the border states. | False |
| Name of the Union's Military plan? | Anaconda Plan |
| From where did most Confederate and Union soldiers come? | farms |
| Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri had close ties to both the Union and the Confederacy | True |
| The South expected support from Britain and France because these two European nations relied on the South for | cotton. |
| A key victory for the North was when Union naval forces under David Farragut captured ____________ on April 25, 1862. | New Orleans |
| Who was the Union general who captured Fort Henry? | Ulysses S. Grant |
| The Confederacy used ironclads to _____________ their harbors and rivers. | defend or protect |
| What did President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declare? | Enslaved people in rebel-held territories were free. |
| General ____________________headed the Union army of the East after the Battle of Bull Run. | George B. McClellan |
| Why was the First Battle of Bull Run significant? | The Confederacy won, which made northerners realize that the war could be more difficult to win than was first thought |
| Together the Union and Confederate armies suffered more than 23,000 casualties in which battle? | Shiloh |
| The __________________ and the Monitor took part in a battle that raised spirits in the North and in the South. | Virginia |
| What is an ironclad? | a ship covered in protective iron |
| Where was the first major battle of the Civil War? | Bull Run |
| What was the Union goal in the West? | to control the Mississippi River |
| Helped wounded soldiers, and leader of the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| Helped to persuade officials to allow women to work as nurses | Dorothea Dix |
| First female army surgeon | Mary Edwards Walker |
| She was a Confederate spy | Rose O'Neal Greenhow |
| The only female officer in the Confederate Army | Sally Tompkins |
| Why did the South suffer most of the destruction during the Civil War? | because most of the fighting took place there |
| Which type of law required Confederate men between certain ages to serve in the army for three years? | draft |
| Which Northern city saw the most violent opposition to laws requiring military service? | New York City |
| To raise money for the war, what did the North print? | greenbacks |
| Stonewall Jackson was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. | False |
| Lincoln replaced General George McClellan with General Ambrose Burnside. | True |
| The Union army was composed mostly of African American soldiers | False |
| The Gettysburg Address was given at a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery. | True |
| The 54th Massachusetts was an all-female regiment. | False |
| Confederate leaders hoped that a victory in Union territory would win support from | Britain and France. |
| General Grant led a 47-day siege against which city? | Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| By the end of the war, nearly 10 percent of the Union army consisted of | African Americans |
| In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said government should be of the people, by the people, and | for the people |
| What was Sherman's march across Georgia toward the Atlantic called? | March to the Sea |
| Who did Lincoln defeat in the presidential election of 1864? | George B. McClellan |
| The Civil War made it clear that the national government was more powerful than the government of | states |
| The systematic destruction of the land and the people—not just an army—is called | total war |
| The name of the president of the Confederacy was | Jefferson Davis |
| The Civil War ended on April 9, _______. | 1865 |
| What were the soldiers of the North nicknamed by the South? | Yankees |
| Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant? | Appomattox Court House |
| Because of the huge loss of life among the troops he commanded, critics called this man a "Butcher". | U.S. Grant |
| What helped Lincoln win the 1864 election? | Sherman's capture of Atlanta |
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