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.

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

• 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

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?

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

• 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