AP US History Touart- American Pageant (Chapter 21) The Civil War
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262991458 | Battle of First Manassas (First Battle of Bull Run) | What was the first major military engagement of the Civil War? | |
262991459 | George McClellan | Who was the Union commander of the Army of the Potomac whose delays in 1862 caused him to fail in the capture of Richmond? | |
262991460 | Robert E. Lee | Who was the audacious commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia whose victories in the Seven Day's Battle and at Second Bull Run secured him legendary status? | |
262991461 | Monitor | What was the name of the Union ironclad which successfully repelled an assault on the blockade by a Confederate ironclad in 1862? | |
262991462 | prevented foreign intervention, prompted the Emancipation Proclamation | What were the two long term consequences of the Battle of Antietam? | |
262991463 | only freed southern slaves (not border states) | What was odd about the slave liberation of the Emancipation Proclamation? | |
262991464 | 13th Amendment | What officially ended slavery in the United States? | |
262991465 | Frederick Douglass | African-American troops made up about 10 percent of the Union army, what abolitionist was instrumental in the creation of several of these regiments? | |
262991466 | Ft. Pillow | At what site were African American soldiers massacred after surrendering to Confederate forces? | |
262991467 | Burnside | What general was selected to lead the Army of the Potomac following the battle of Antietam? | |
262991468 | Fredericksburg | What battle was a smashing victory for the Confederacy after the Union army launched a foolish frontal attack on December 13, 1862? | |
262991469 | Chancellorsville | What battle in May 1863 was an enormous Confederate victory but resulted in the death of Stonewall Jackson? | |
262991470 | George Meade | Who was the Union general who was victorious in the battle of Gettysburg? | |
262991471 | Pickett's Charge | What was the name of the last ill-fated assault at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 that spelled the beginning of the end of the Confederacy? | |
262991472 | Ulysses Grant | What Union commander emerged as a great general after the battles of Ft. Henry, Ft. Donelson, Shiloh, and the siege of Vicksburg? | |
262991473 | David Farragut | Who was the Union naval commander who successfully captured New Orleans in 1862 and Mobile in 1864? | |
262991474 | Vicksburg | What was the battle in July of 1863 that forever cost the Confederacy the control over the Mississippi and states to the west and is considered the crucial turning point in the western theater of the war? | |
262991475 | William Sherman | Who was the Union commander who led an infamous "march to the sea" where he adopted scorched earth tactics and burned the cities of Atlanta and later Columbia? | |
262991476 | Copperheads | What was the term for northern extreme "Peace Democrats" like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio who undermined the Union war effort? | |
262991477 | Stephen Douglas | Who was the leader of the Northern Democrats whose death in 1861 led to the breakdown of the northern Democrats loyalty to the Union? | |
262991478 | The Man Without a Country | What was the fictional novel by Edward Everett Hale describing the significance of the Peace Democrats? | |
262991479 | Union Party | Under what party did President Lincoln win reelection in 1864? | |
262991480 | George McClellan | Who did Lincoln defeat to be reelected in the election of 1864? | |
262991481 | Appomattox Courthouse | At what site did General Lee surrender to the forces under General Grant? | |
262991482 | John Wilkes Booth | Who was responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? |