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Name: _________________________ Block: _____ Date: _____ 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