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1. Who were the Confederate officials from Georgia?
Alexander Stephens – VP
Robert Toombs – secretary of state
2. Who were the president (Jefferson Davis) and vice-president (Alexander Stephens) of the CSA?
3. Name 5 advantages of the Union:
More men of combat age, more farmland, more money, more factories, more railroads
4. Name 4 advantages of the Confederacy:
Better generals, home field advantage
5. Name the 3 main Union strategies for winning the war and how they operated. Of the 3, which one was the
most advantages of the North?
Union Blockade – blocked Confederate ports to keep from shipping cotton out and getting supplies from Europe
Anaconda Plan – capture the Miss. River
Twofold plan against army (defeat in battle) and civilians (scorched earth)
6. Name 2 main Confederate strategies for winning the war and how they operated. Who were the blockade
runners?
King Cotton Diplomacy – belief Europe would need Southern cotton and help break the blockade
Wear down the enemy in battle & use blockade runners
7. How was the Union blockade hurtful for the South?
blocked Confederate ports to keep from shipping cotton out and getting supplies from Europe
8. What was the significance of Fort Sumter?
First shots fired – Civil War begins
9. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
First Bull Run
10. Who was Clara Barton?
Civil War nurse for Union – late founded American Red Cross
11. Why was the battle of Antietam important? (pg. 267) Stopped Lee’s invasion of the north, allowed Lincoln
to issue Emancipation Proclamation, bloodiest single day in US history
12. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (pgs. 267-268) Freed all slaves in rebellious states unless they
rejoined the Union by 1/1/63
13. What was the battle of Gettysburg? Where was it fought? (pgs. 266-267)
Lee’s 2nd attempt to invade North, victory for the Union and turning in the war, bloodiest battle in US history
14. Why was Chattanooga important to both the North and the South? Major rail center
15. What was the Battle of Chickamauga? Union attempt to capture major rail center – Chattanooga – bloodiest
battle in GA history
16. Who were the Union and Confederate generals at the battle of Chickamauga? Rosecrans (U) v. Bragg (C)
17. What was the Battle of Atlanta? Hood (C) tried to defend railroads; Union victory by Sherman
18.Who were the Confederate and Union generals at the above battle? See above
19. What was Andersonville? ((pg. 275) Georgia Confederate prison for Union soldiers. Infamouns for it’s
horrible conditions – limited shelter, food, water, medical supplies
20. How many Union soldiers died at Andersonville? (pg. 276) 13,000
21. After capturing the rail center of the south, Atlanta, what did Sherman do to the city? (pg. 273) burnt the
city, destroyed the railroad tracks
22. Where did Sherman’s March to the Sea start and end? (pg. 273) Atlanta to Savannah
23. What did Sherman’s army destroy in Georgia on his march to the sea? Why was it a target? (pg. 273)
military target and anything the supported the civilian economy – farms, railroads, factories, homes, etc
24. Who did Lee surrender to ending the war? Where did this
occur? Grant/Appomattox court hourse