GA History: Civil War

Which animal is thought of to represent the union blockade?

• A shark

• An anaconda

• an armadillo

• a tiger

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 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.

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 was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War with over 34,000 casualties and the largest battle ever fought in Georgia. It was a Confederate victory.

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Battle of Kettle Creek

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Siege of Savannah

Sherman's army implemented the Union's total war philosophy, creating a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that was 300 miles long and 60 miles wide, destroying Georgia's infrastructure: railroads, roads, cotton gins and mills, warehouses, anything that assisted in supplying Confederate troops.

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Atlanta Campaign

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Union blockade

An announcement by Abraham Lincoln to the southern, Confederate states in rebellion to surrender or their slaves would be freed. The document also recruited black soldiers into the Union and added ending slavery to the goals of the Civil War.

• The Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Proclamation of 1763

• The Charter of 1732