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Name:_____________________________
Foundations US1: Chapter 11-4
The North Takes Charge
Armies Clash at Gettysburg:
1) The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because it _____________________________ the South so badly
that they would never again have enough troops to invade a _____________________________.
2) The South won the Battle of Chancellorsville, however an accident led to important Confederate General
_____________________________ being shot by one of his own men and eventually to his death. This
removed one of the South’s most capable military leaders.
3) Confederates led by A.P. Hill heard there was a supply of _____________________________ in Gettysburg
so decided to find it. (reason they fought there) On the first day the Confederates took the town and Union
retreated to hills.
4) On day 2 (July 2), almost _____________(#) Union soldiers and _________(#) confederates stood ready to
fight for the town. Confederates noticed an undefended position on Little Round Top and went to capture it. A
unit of troops from Maine stopped the attack (despite massive losses) and forced many attacking confederates to
surrender. (holding the Union position)
5) Day 3 (July 3), started with a 2 hour long artillery attack between the 2 sides. When the Union artillery
stopped firing Lee ordered an infantry attack. When they got close the Union artillery and infantry renewed
their firing slaughtering most of the attackers. After this Lee ordered a retreat. General Meade (Union) never
ordered a counterattack.
6) At Gettysburg the Union lost _________(#) soldiers and the Confederacy lost _________(#) soldiers. This
cripples the Confederate army.
Grant Wins at Vicksburg:
7).In the spring of 1863, Grant sent troops to destroy _____________________________ in central Mississippi
and eventually assaulted the City of Vicksburg. (one of the last 2 confederate holdouts on the Mississippi river)
8) After the assaults failed he settled in for a _________________________. He bombarded the city several
hours a day forcing the citizens to hide in caves. When food ran out they surrendered. The city fell on
_____________________________ (date) 5 days later the last city on the Mississippi fell also.
The Gettysburg Address:
9) In November 1863, a ceremony was held to dedicate a _____________________________ in Gettysburg.
Lincoln’s two-minute Gettysburg Address asserts unity of U.S., honors dead soldiers, calls for living to dedicate
selves to preserve Union, freedom
The Confederacy Wears Down:
10) The Confederacy was low on food, _______________________, _________________________, guns and
ammunition. All they could hope for was to hold on long enough to destroy Northern morale and work toward
an _____________________________ (a cease fire). However, morale in the South plummeted.
11) In March 1864, Lincoln appointed _____________________________ as the commander of all Union
armies. He then appointed _____________________________ as commander of the military division of the
Mississippi.
12) These 2 generals believed that it was essential to fight not only the South’s armies and government, but its
_____________________________ as well.
13)
They
reasoned
that
civilians
produced
the
__________________________,
grew
the
______________________, and transported the goods on which the army relied. They also argued that if they
destroyed the will of the people to fight the South would surrender.
14)
Grant’s
strategy
was
to
immobilize
Lee’s
army
in
Virginia
while
Sherman
raided
_____________________________. He figured that even if he lost twice as many soldiers as Lee the north
could afford it the South could not.
Democrats and Northern newspapers called Grant a
_____________________________.
15) Sherman occupied _____________________________ (city) in September 1864. He decided to abandon
his
supply
lines
and
march
Southeast
through
Georgia
creating
a
_________________________________________ and living off the land.
16) After taking Savannah turned north into South Carolina where the army burned almost every
_____________________________ in its path.
17) In the 1864 presidential election Democrats nominated _____________________________ to run against
Lincoln on a platform (policy ideas) of immediate _____________________________.
The Radical
Republicans nominated _____________________________ to run against Lincoln and called for harsher terms
against the South.
18) After a number of Union victories shortly before the election, Fremont dropped out and then Lincoln won
reelection
19) As Union troops approached the Confederate capital, President Davis abandoned it setting it
_____________________________ to keep the North from taking it.
20) On April 9 1865, Lee and Grant met to sign a confederate surrender at _____________________________
effectively ending the war.