Civil War in GA

What was the Union war strategy to surround the South with naval ships to prevent the South from trading with Europe?

• Union Blockade-Anaconda Plan

• King Cotton Diplomacy

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

What was the military prison located in SW GA that held over 45,000 Union prisoners, of which 13,000 died from disease?

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Antietam

• Andersonville

Who encourage Georgians to approve the Compromise of 1850 and was against Georgia secession?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Henry McNeal Turner

• Alexander Stephens

By issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln

• lost Northern support for the war

• broaden Union war goals to include ending slavery

• strengthened the principle of states' rights

• brought a quick end to the war

What was the bloodiest battle on GA soil and where 34,000 troops died?

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Bloody Marsh

Which Civil War event is being described here:

-Union goal to capture Atlanta- the heart of the Confederacy

-Atlanta railroad hub and factories are destroyed

-Sherman "flanked" his troops around Confederate forces

• Atlanta campaign

• battle of Antietam

• battle of Chickamauga

• Union blockade

Sherman's "March to the Sea" was so effective during the Civil War because

• it kept the South from seceding in 1860

• the "total war" destruction helped cause the South to surrender sooner

• his army was made up of freedmen looking to join the Confederacy

• Sherman won the support of angry Confederate soldiers

President Lincoln's main goals during the Civil War were to

• spread slavery to the western territories and abolish sharecropping

• preserve the Union and abolish slavery

• break the South's dependence on cotton and preserve the Confederacy

• end British control of Canada and invade Mexico

Which conclusion related to the Civil War can be drawn from the information in this chart?

• The South had more large cities than the North

• Sectionalism was based on social and economic differences between the North and South

• The South was well prepared to win a war against the North

• Agriculture was important in the North

Based on the information on this map and your knowledge, Georgia was the 5th state to

• abolish slavery

• ratify the U.S. Constitution

• withdraw from the Union

• rejoin the Union during Reconstruction