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WorksheetsGeorgia Studies
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 44mins
Which battle fought in Georgia was a Confederate victory? (Confederacy won the battle)
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Sandersville
Atlanta
Who was the Union commander at Atlanta?
Lincoln
Meade
Grant
Sherman
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in
around the world
the North
the states in Rebellion
Sherman's order to destroy everything usable that was left behind was meant to achieve what
scorched earth
punish southerners
the crush the spirit of the south
What was the name of the prison camp in Georgia?
Savannah
Andersonville
Chickamauga
Biggest battle in Georgia
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Kennesaw
Battle of Chickamauga
Who won the battle of Chickamauga?
Union
Confederacy
After the battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued the following document
Declaration of Independence
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
What year did Lincoln won the election?
1860
1861
1863
The Atlanta Campaign was a march from
Chattanooga to Atlanta
Atlanta to Savannah
Chattanooga to Macon
The battle known as the single bloodiest day in the Civil War
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Bull Run
Who was the governor when Georgia succeeded?
John Reynolds
James Wright
Joseph E. Brown
Which American document, issued by Abraham Lincoln, led to the freedom of slaves in territories rebelling against the Union?
The Slavery Proclamation
The Civil Rights Declaration
The Emancipation Proclamation
After the devastating destruction caused by his march through Georgia, why did General Sherman NOT burn Savannah?
He gave Savannah to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
He decided to buy a home and live in Savannah.
He succeeded in dividing the upper and lower Confederacy and no longer needed to destroy civilian areas.
What is the name of the infamous Civil War prisoner of war camp, located in Macon County, where 13,000 soldiers died?
Elmira Prison
Andersonville Prison
Gratiot Street Prison
What law allowed special government official to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?
Fugitive Slave Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?
Kansas
Maine
Missouri
California
People who campaigned to end slavery were called what?
rebels
yankees
abolitionists
The bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War took place here
Vicksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
What Union general led the northern army on its "March to the Sea" and saw to it that much of Georgia's capital resources were destroyed?
Robert. E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
William T. Sherman
Which Georgia statesman disagreed with secession warning that a civil war would lead to economic ruin of the south?
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Stephens
John Breckenridge
When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, many southern states, including Georgia, left the union or ____________.
nullified
seceded
exercised sectionalism
