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Chapter 16 Section 5 ☺
Name _____________________________
American History Period _______
1. Why did Lincoln replace General McClellan with General Burnside? _____________
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2. Did Burnside and his Union soldiers break through Confederate lines? ______
Who did Lincoln chose as his next General? ______________
3. Did Hooker win at Chancellorsville? _______
4. What happened to Stonewall Jackson? _______________________________________
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5. For what 2 reasons did General Lee launch more attacks within Union territory? ____
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6. What happened when a Confederate raiding party went to Gettysburg for boots and other
supplies? ________________________________________________________________
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7. What was the key battle that finally turned the tide against the Confederates?
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8. Why didn't Confederate General James Longstreet want to attack? _______________
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9. Which side held the advantage because they had gained control of Little Round Top?
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10. On the third day, what did Longstreet again try to convince Lee not to do? ________ Why
did he? ____________________________________________________________________
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11. Where did he plan to attack? __________________________________________________
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12. Who led the charge as the Confederates marched slowly up toward Cemetery Ridge?
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13. How many men did the Confederates lose on this charge? __________________
14. On the fourth day, Lee began to _________________ to Virginia. In all, nearly _________
Confederate soldiers and _______________ Union troops had fought during the
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15. General Meade decided _____ to follow Lee’s army. This decision angered ____________. He
felt that Meade had missed an opportunity to ________________
_______________ and possibly ________________________________.
16. ________________ was a turning point in the war. Lee’s troops would never again launch an
attack in ______________________.
17. The Union victory at Gettysburg took place on the ____________________ Grant’s capture of
Vicksburg, Mississippi. These victories made northerners believe that the war
_______________________________.
18. In addition, the Union win at Gettysburg helped to end the South’s search for
______________________________ in the war. After Gettysburg, _____________________
____________________ refused to provide aid to the Confederacy. The South’s attempt at
_______________________________ failed.
19. Why did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address? __________________________________
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20. In the _____________________________, Lincoln praised the ____________________
__________________ and _____________________________________ to winning the Civil War.
21. Lincoln referenced the Declaration of Independence and its ideals of ____________
________________________________. He reminded listeners that the war was being fought
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22. Who did Lincoln transfer to the East and gave him command of the Union army?
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23. Grant forced Lee to fight a series of battles in Virginia that stretched ______________
___________________ and ____________________ to their limits.
24. What was the Wilderness Campaign? ____________________________________________
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25. Union forces had suffered ____________________ as many casualties as the Confederates had,
yet Grant ___________________ his strategy. He knew ______________ be getting additional
soldiers, and Lee _______________________.
26. Lincoln needed a victory for the Union army to help him win ______________________
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27. What was Sherman's goal? ____________________________________________
28. __________________ fell to Sherman’s troops on September 2, 1864. Much of the city was
destroyed by _______________________________.
29. Many people in the North had been upset with the _______________ of the war. However, the
capture of Atlanta showed that ___________________ was being made in defeating the South.
This success helped to convince Union voters to _______________ Lincoln in a landslide.
30. After taking Atlanta, where was Sherman headed next? _____________________
31. During his March to the Sea, Sherman practiced total war. What is total war?
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32. Why was Philip Bazaar awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor? ________________
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33. By the second week of April 1865, Grant had _______________________ Lee’s army and
demanded the soldiers’ ____________________________.
34. Lee’s forces were running low on ___________________.
35. When and where did the surrender occur? ______________________________________
36. The Civil War lasted ______ years, from 1861 to 1865, and had deep and long-lasting effects.
Almost ___________________ Americans lost their lives during the four years of fighting. The
defeat of the South ________________________ there. The majority of former slaves, however,
had _____________________. The southern economy was in __________. A tremendous amount of
_____________ remained, even after the fighting had ceased.