Civil War Quiz #2

Commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William Sherman

To surround and blockade an enemy town or position with troops to force it to surrender

• remission

• counterblokade

• Siege

Black soldiers were paid

• the same as whites soldiers

• Half of what white soldiers made

• more than white soldiers

Why was Grant's attack on Vicksburg considered a siege

• Grant came into the city and took control and took all its food

• Grant came in and gave food, supplies, and set up hospitals.

• Grant surrounded the city, blockaded it, and bombarded it until it surrendered.

An 1863 declaration by President Lincoln freeing enslaved Americans in Confederate Territory

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Appomattox Courthouse

A fort in South Carolina that was the site of an attack by the African American 54th Massachusetts Regiment in 1863

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Norfolk

• Fort Wagner

What did the people of Richmond have to overcome after the war

• Richmond had to rebuild homes and business and they had to rebuild economy

• Richmond had to overcome hatred

• Richmond had to overcome what to do with all the money they had

Commander of the Union Army during the Civil war. He won the war for Abraham Lincoln. Later became the 18th President of the U.S

• Robert E. Lee

• William Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

The Speech made by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers speech

Most famous African American regiment in the Union army

• 54th Massachusetts Regiment

• 55th Massachusetts Regiment

• 30th Connecticut Volunteer Regiment