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1. Name 5 advantages of the Union:
More men of combat age, more farmland, more money, more factories, more
railroads
2. Name 2 advantages of the Confederacy: Better generals, home field advantage
3. Name the 2 main Union strategies for winning the war and how they operated:
Union Blockade – blocked Confederate ports to keep from shipping cotton out and
getting supplies from Europe
Anaconda Plan – capture the Miss. River
4. Name 2 main Confederate strategies for winning the war and how they operated:
King Cotton Diplomacy – belief Europe would need Southern cotton and help break
the blockade
Wear down the enemy in battle & use blockade runners
5. How was the Union blockade hurtful for the South?
blocked Confederate ports to keep from shipping cotton out and getting supplies
from Europe
6. What was the significance of Fort Sumter? First shots fired – Civil War begins
7. Who was Clara Barton? Civil War nurse for Union – late founded American Red
Cross
8-11. Identify the following:
1st Union general of the East: Irwin McDowell (watermelon man)
1st Union general of the West: Henry Halleck
1st Confederate general of the East: PGT Beauregard
1st Confederate general of the West: Albert S. Johnston
12. 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
13. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (pgs. 267-268)
Freed all slaves in rebellious states unless they rejoined the Union by 1/1/63
14. What was the battle of Gettysburg? (pgs. 266-267)
Lee’s 2nd attempt to invade North, victory for the Union and turning in the war,
bloodiest battle in US history
15. What were the 2 earliest battles fought in Georgia? Tybee Island and Fort Pulaski
16. What was the battle of Chickamauga? (pg. 269) Union attempt to capture major
rail center – Chattanooga – bloodiest battle in GA history
17-18. Who were the Union and Confederate generals at the battle of Chickamauga?
Rosecrans (U) v. Bragg (C)
19. What was the battle of Kennesaw Mountain?
Between Johnston (C) and Sherman (U) – confederate victory
20. Who were the Confederate and Union generals at the above battle?
See above
21. What was the battle of Fort Pulaski? How was it defeated?
April 1862, Union forces took Tybee Island, which was only a mile across the
Savannah River from Fort Pulaski. They called on the fort’s commander, Colonel
Olmstead to surrender. Olmstead refused and Union forces began firing on the fort
at 8:00 a.m. on April 10. After a day and a half of cannon fire, the fort’s brick walls
were falling down, and Olmstead was forced to surrender.
22. What was the Battle of Atlanta? Hood (C) tried to defend railroads; Union victory
by Sherman
22-23. Who were the Confederate and Union generals at the above battle? See above
24. What was Andersonville? (pg. 275) Georgia Confederate prison for Union
soldiers
25. How many Union soldiers died at Andersonville? (pg. 276) 13,000
26. 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
27. Where did Sherman’s March to the Sea start and end? (pg. 273) Atlanta to
Savannah
28. What did Sherman’s army destroy in Georgia on his march to the sea? (pg. 273)
military target and anything the supported the civilian economy – farms, railroads,
factories, homes, etc
29. What was “The Great Locomotive Chase”? (pg. 264) Union spies tried to capture
and destroy the rail center by hijacking train, “The General” - failed
30. Who was U.S. Grant? Union commander;
Lee’s match, forced Lee’s surrender at
Appomattox