SS8H5b: Georgia's Role in the Civil War

What contributed to the lack of success of the Union Blockade?

• The South had a superior navy.
• Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.
• Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South.
• The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade.

Atlanta's military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the 

• capital of the Confederacy.
• most populated city in the Confederacy.
• industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
• home to the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy.

What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" and saw to it that much of Georgia's capital resources were destroyed?

• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• William T. Sherman
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It freed all slaves in states fighting against the Union.

• It freed all slaves in the United States

• It put Ulysses S. Grant in charge of all Union forces.

• It allowed slaves to fight in the Confederate army.

What was the impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea”?

• It convinced the South that they could win the war.

• It convinced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• It forced Robert E. Lee to evacuate Georgia.

• It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.

How was the Emancipation Proclamation a concession to the South?

• all slaves would be freed.

• only male slaves would be freed.

• The South could keep their slaves if they stopped fighting.

• The slaves could decide if they wanted to remain on the plantations.

The South needed to keep its ports open during the war

• to maintain navy for attacks on northern seaports

• to maintain the only major transportation resource in the South.

• to ship and sell its cotton in Europe in exchange for supplies and arms.

• to protect the privateers who were making millions in profits from the war.

Of the choices provided, which proved to be MOST dangerous for prisoners in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War?

• torture by Confederate guards

• waterborne and airborne diseases

• seasonal storms in south Georgia

• being sent to fight for the South

The MOST LIKELY reason General William T. Sherman wanted to control the rail lines running through Atlanta, Georgia, during his "Atlanta Campaign" was because he wanted to

• prevent residents of the city from fleeing to the North.

• cut off the flow of supplies to the Confederate army.

• use the rail lines to quickly transport his troops.

• extend the rail lines into the northern states.

This Civil War-era illustration is showing

• Grant's victory at Shiloh.

• Sherman's "March to the Sea".

• Scott's victory at Gettysburg.

• the Union blockade of the South.