8th Grade Chapter 17

The Battle of Bull Run resulted in

• both sides learning that their soldiers needed training.

• a major victory for the Union Army.

• the death of Stonewall Jackson

• an attack on Washington D.C. , by the Confederate Army.

The battle between the Monitor & the Merrimack resulted in the

• end of the Union naval blockade of the South.

• Union capture of New Orleans.

• building of many more ironclad ships.

• sinking of the Confederate vessel.

The South planned to win the war by

• capturing Washington D.C., the Union capital.

• wearing down the Union Army.

• ending slavery on its own.

• using its industrial advantage quickly.

Which of the following were advantages enjoyed by the North at the outbreak of the war?

I. stronger support from its citizens

II. a larger population

III. more well-trained officers

IV. many more industries and factories

• I & II

• I & III

• III & IV

• II & IV

A serious weakness to the South was that it had

• few trained army officers.

• few soldiers who knew how to shoot.

• few railroads.

• to fight a defensive war.

The capture of Atlanta and the "march to sea" were led by

• Philip Sheridan

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Robert E. Lee

• Stonewall Jackson

? made money by charging high prices for goods desperately needed by the army.

• Copperheads

• Abolitionists

• Profitears

• Profiteers

When pro-Confederate mobs attacked Union troops in Baltimore, President Lincoln declared ?

• martial law.

• inflation.

• marital law.

• war.

? were northerners who opposed the way Lincoln was handling the war.

• Abolitionists

• Profitears

• Profiteers

• Copperheads

General ? marched through the Shenandoah Valley waging total war.

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Philip Sheridan