Civil War Bull Run to Vicksburg

What were the three parts of the Union strategy at the start of the war?

• Surround the South by sea to cut off its trade

• Capture General Robert E. Lee

• Divide the Confederacy into sections to prevent one region from helping another

• Capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, and destroy the Confederate government

Which army won the Battle of Bull Run partially due to the leadership of General "Stonewall" Jackson?

• Union

• Confederacy

Choose some of the ways that women supported the war effort on each side.

• Slaves

• Spies

• Nurses

• Soldiers

• Messengers

The South had long exported its ______ to Great Britain and France, so the Confederacy looked to Great Britain to send ships to break through the blockade.

Battle that was claimed by McClellan as a Union victory, but many who fought there viewed the battle as a defeat for both armies.

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Manassas

In past wars, battles had been fought in hand-to-hand combat using bayonets, but improved _______ made killing from a distance much easier during the Civil War.

Said that he opposed slavery, but the purpose of the war, he said, “is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. ”

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

Declared slaves in all Confederate states to be free. This announcement had little immediate effect on slavery. The Confederate states ignored the document, and slaves living in states loyal to the Union were not affected by it.

• Battle of Antietam

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Habeas Corpus

The Civil War was the first American war to use railroads to move troops and to keep them supplied, use telegraphs to communicate with distant armies, and to be recorded in photographs.

• True

• False