ANTEBELLUM/CIVIL WAR/RECONSTRUCTION

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

• Ft. Sumter

  S.C

• Antietam

  Maryland

• Sharpsburg,

  Pennsylvannia

• Chickamauga

Which is NOT an accurate description of Alexander Stephens?

• Vice President of the Confederacy

• Georgia Politician

• President of the Union

• Georgia Politician that opposed secession.

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What was General Sherman's strategy for Savannah?

• Send the women and children North to work in Union factories.

• Take control of Ft. Pulaski

• Destroy military depots and burn the city

• DO NOT BURN Use the city as a port for supplies and take the $28 million worth of cotton

Why did Sherman destroy farms and factories throughout the South?

• Revenge for the battle of Gettysburg

• To destroy Georgia citizens support for the Confederate army

• To find escaped Union deserters

• To bring Mexico into the war

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Which was the Union's first attempt to invade Georgia by land and the bloodiest battle in Georgia that was a Confederate victory?

• The battle of Shiloh

• Antietam

• Battle Atlanta

• Chickamauga

Which is an accurate descripion of the Emancipation Proclamation which was issued after the Battle of Antietam?

• An offer from President Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam to Confederate states to rejoin Union and they could keep slaves

  Did not free border states slaves. Lincoln did not want to anger them.

• A order from President Lincoln to the border states to free all slaves.

• An offer from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to the border states to free their slaves

• A petition from the border states to the CSA that called for the end of the war

Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War.

• Chickamauga

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Bentonville

Which battle gave the Union control of the port of Savannah for most of the Civil War?

• Chickamauga

• Shiloh

• Antietam

• Ft. Pulaski

Where was the three day battle with the highest number of casualties?

• Gettysburg,

  Pennsylvania

• Vicksburg,

  Mississippi

• Shiloh,

  Tennessee

• Antietam,

  Maryland

Henry Wirz was executed because of the horrible conditions at which Confederate prison for Union prisoners of war?

• Sing Sing

• Andersonville

• Attica

• Joliet

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