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- A siege of that city by the Union army brought starvation and surrender.
- With the start of the Civil War, the North began to experience all of the following except A) women working in industry. B) increased farm production. C) shortages of army supplies. D) growth of private volunteer groups.
- According to William T. Sherman, the "spinal column of America" was the ____________________ River.
- True or False? The Emancipation Proclamation could not free slaves in the border states or in any other areas then under Federal control.
- True or False? Some men avoided serving in the army by paying recent immigrants to serve for them.
- . Proposed by General Scott, the ____________________ Plan was an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War.
- True or False? The Twenty-Negro Law favored rich Southern planters.
- In the Battle of __________________________, the Confederate attack through an open field, called Pickett's Charge, resulted in the loss of thousands of Confederate soldiers
- How did the social and political lives of African Americans change during Reconstruction?
- True or False? McClellan attacked Confederate forces at Antietam until Lee's army was clearly defeated.
- True or False? President Lincoln was assassinated while riding in a parade to celebrate the Union victory
- The Battle of Antietam A) opened the Mississippi River to total Union control. B) was attended by ladies and congressmen, as if it were a sporting event. C) was the battle in which Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded. D) gave Lincoln opportunity to issue his Emancipation Proclamation.
- The South won the battle there, but it lost Stonewall Jackson
- J.E.B. Stuart's raid of General Pope's headquarters helped bring the Confederacy its second victory there.
- McClellan appreciated the "cigar wrapper" that one of Lee's couriers lost before the encounter there.
- His orders were to make the Shenandoah valley into "a barren waste . . . so that crows flying over it . . .[would] have to carry their provender with them."
- The onlooking ladies and gentlemen discovered there that war was no picnic.
- True or False? Blacks were not allowed to join the Union army until after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
- True or False? The Union army entered the First Battle of Bull Run overconfident and unprepared.
- what year was the thirteenth amendment made