Unit 8 - The Tide of War Turns

Unit 8 - The Tide of War Turns

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Multiple Choice

What is the name of the city that was burned by the Union in the picture?

• Nashville

• Atlanta

• New Orleans

• Richmond

Multiple Choice

What state is Atlanta located?

• Georgia

• Kentucky

• Virginia

• North Carolina

Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

• Union General Burnside was soundly defeated by Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg and was replaced by General Hooker

• General Hooker was soundly defeated by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville even though his army was twice a large

• Lee's army wants to take the fight back up in the North and British observers are with Lee's army to see if they should support the CSA

• Lee's best general Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men on accident at the Battle of Chancellorsville and he died from complications from having his arm removed

Multiple Select

What two battles did General Lee easily defeat the Union army?

• Fredericksburg

• Antietam

• Shiloh

• Chancellorsville

Multiple Choice

What general did Lee lose just before his invasion into Pennsylvania?

• P.G.T. Beauregard

• Sidney Johnston

• William T. Sherman

• Thomas Jackson

Battle of Gettysburg

• Lee takes his army into Pennsylvania looking for supplies

• The Union army moved north to engage Lee's army

• The battle lasted three days

• Day 1 there was fighting near the town and both armies began to pour into the area and take position across from each other

• Day 2 fighting took place at Little Round Top on the right and the Cemetery and Culp's Hill on the left all Confederate attacks failed

• Day 3 Pickett's Charge was a full out frontal attack on Cemetery Ridge which completely destroyed Lee's army loosing half of his men trying to take the ridge

• Union General Meade did not go after Lee on the 4th day and Lee retreated back down to Virginia

Multiple Choice

Day 1 of the battle had the South attacking from the North and the North attacking from the South

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Confederates were successful in taking Cemetery Ridge on the 3rd day of fighting.

• True

• False

Little Round Top Video

Multiple Choice

What state's men were fighting to keep Little Round Top for the Union?

• Maine

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Mississippi

Multiple Choice

What side was attacking up the hill?

• Confederate

• Union

• Neither, they were on flat ground

Multiple Choice

How many years is four score and seven years ago?

• 57

• 67

• 77

• 87

Multiple Choice

Where did President Lincoln make this speech?

• Washington D.C.

• Philadelphia

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

Union Campaigns Cripple the Confederacy

• Lincoln brings Grant east to battle Lee in Virginia

• General Sherman will take the Union army in the west and attack Georgia and South Carolina and move north towards Virginia where he will link up with Grant's army to crush Lee

• Grant will fight Lee's army all summer and after each battle he flanks Lee's army and moves south towards Richmond

• Lee's army is loosing valuable men and supplies with the constant fighting and Lee is not used to Grant's aggressiveness

• Grant pins Lee's army down outside of Richmond and both sides dig trenches and fight for several months

Multiple Choice

General Grant was not like the other Union generals in that he took risks and used his larger army aggressively against Lee.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

General Lee's army is slowly getting weaker and cannot replace men and supplies like the Union army can due to the blockade.

• False

• True

Sherman's March to the Sea

• General Sherman has captured Atlanta and moved his men south towards the Atlantic coast where he captures Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South. Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina

• Sherman then turns his army north towards Richmond and fights the CSA into North Carolina

• The war ends before Sherman can link up his army with Grant in Virginia

Multiple Choice

The capture of Atlanta came just before the presidential election of 1864 and helped Lincoln defeat McClellan for a second term

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

General Sherman was able to take Georgia and South Carolina and was able to link-up with Grant's army in Virginia where they trapped Lee's army.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Sherman was careful not to damage farms and railroads in Georgia.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

General Sherman understood that to win the war you must destroy everything the enemy can use to keep their troops fed and supplied even if that meant burning crops, farms, and killing livestock.

• False

• True

The South Surrenders

• Lee knows Sherman is moving North into Virginia and decides to give up Richmond and move his army west

• Grant goes after Lee's army and catches up with Lee at Appomattox

• It is here that Lee knows he is defeated and meets with Grant to surrender his army and end the war

• The war lasted 4 years and killed over 600,000 soldiers and wounded over a million

• The South has been destroyed by all the fighting and now they will be loosing their slaves too

• The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were known as the Civil War amendments because they were passed during or just after the war and freed the slaves, made them citizens, and gave the men the right to vote

Multiple Choice

What amendment(s) were known as the Civil War amendments?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• All the above

Multiple Choice

How long did the war last and how many men were killed?

• 5 years and 600,000

• 4 years and 500,000

• 4 years and 600,000

• 4 years and 700,000