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WorksheetsCivil War Part Two Formative
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following Civil War battles occurred in the state of Georgia?
a)
Antietam
b)
Chickamauga
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Kettle Creek
2.
What was at stake in the battle of Chickamauga?
a)
Control of the railroad center in nearby Chattanooga.
b)
Access to the port city of Savannah.
c)
Access to ammunition.
d)
The fate of Washington, D.C.
3.
Who was William T. Sherman?
a)
He was the Confederate general who tried to invade the North twice but failed.
b)
He was the appointed governor of Georgia during Reconstruction.
c)
He was the Union general who conquered Atlanta and marched all the way to Savannah.
d)
He was the Union general who finally defeated Robert E. Lee and forced him to surrender.
4.
What was the impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea”?
a)
It convinced the South that they could win the war.
b)
It convinced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
c)
It forced Robert E. Lee to evacuate Georgia.
d)
It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.
5.
Captured Union soldiers were sent to a notorious Confederate prison camp located in which city in Georgia?
a)
Milledgeville
b)
Atlanta
c)
Andersonville
d)
Savannah
6.
Which of the following best describes the effects of the Civil War on Georgia?
a)
Small farmers suffered a great deal at the hands of the Union army, but people in Atlanta were spared any hardship.
b)
The war led to whites finally accepting blacks as their equals.
c)
Other than soldiers dying in faraway battles, people in Georgia never really felt the effects of the war.
d)
Thousands of Georgians died fighting in the war while many others suffered at home.
7.
Why did General Sherman burn Atlanta and destroy everything in his path on the March to the Sea?
a)
He no longer had control of his troops.
b)
He wanted to destroy the South’s resources.
c)
He was ordered by President Lincoln.
d)
His armies were large and they needed all of the resources they could find.
8.
Who was the commander of the Confederate prison at Andersonville?
a)
John Hood
b)
Henry Wirz
c)
John Calhoun
d)
George Murphy
9.
Prior to leaving Atlanta, Sherman’s army
a)
killed all the inhabitants.
b)
allowed the citizens to return.
c)
burned the city.
d)
gave the city to Lincoln as a present.
10.
Atlanta’s military importance to the Confederacy was that it was the
a)
capital city of the Confederacy.
b)
most populated city in the Confederacy.
c)
industrial and transportation center of the Confederacy.
d)
home to the largest number of slaves in the Confederacy.
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