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Social Studies - Chapter 17 - People

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  • Q1
    Jefferson Davis:
    President of the Confederacy, urged Lee to invade the North after Chancellorsville.
    President and Commander in chief of the United States who led the war to preserve the Union.
    Confederate General of all southern Troops. Was crucial to successes on the battlefield in the defense of Richmond.
    30s
  • Q2
    Thomas Jackson:
    Confederate General nicknamed “stonewall.” Responsible for the southern victory at Bull Run. Lee’s right hand man. Accidentally killed at Chancellorsville.
    Confederate General of all southern Troops. Was crucial to successes on the battlefield in the defense of Richmond.
    Twice appointed, and twice fired general of the Army of the Potomac. Loser of the election of 1864 to Abraham Lincoln.
    30s
  • Q3
    George McClellan:
    Union general responsible for the union losses at Fredericksburg.
    Twice appointed, and twice fired general of the Army of the Potomac. Loser of the election of 1864 to Abraham Lincoln.
    persuaded the Union to allow women to work as nurses for the Union Army.
    30s
  • Q4
    Ulysses S Grant:
    Union General responsible for victories at Vicksburg, Shiloh, Petersburg, Chattanooga and Richmond. Nicknames Unconditional Surrender Grant. Finished the war as commander of all Union forces.
    A member of the 54th Massachusetts. First African American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism on the attack of Fort Wagner.
    Second in command to Grant, leads the March to the Sea, and utilized total war.
    30s
  • Q5
    Who was the Commanding General at the battle of Gettysburg?
    Ambrose Burnside
    Ulysses S Grant
    George Meade
    30s
  • Q6
    Abraham Lincoln:
    President and Commander in chief of the United States who led the war to preserve the Union.
    President of the Confederacy, urged Lee to invade the North after Chancellorsville.
    30s
  • Q7
    Robert E. Lee:
    Confederate General nicknamed “stonewall.” Responsible for the southern victory at Bull Run. Lee’s right hand man. Accidentally killed at Chancellorsville.
    Confederate General of all southern Troops. Was crucial to successes on the battlefield in the defense of Richmond.
    President of the Confederacy, urged Lee to invade the North after Chancellorsville.
    30s
  • Q8
    Who was the Second in command to Grant, leads the March to the Sea, and utilized total war?
    Dorothea Dix
    Robert Gould Shaw
    William T. Sherman
    30s
  • Q9
    Who were the Abolitionists who urged Lincoln to make the war about ending slavery?
    Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley
    Fredrick Douglass, George McClellan
    Fredrick Douglass, Clara Barton
    30s
  • Q10
    Ambrose Burnside:
    Union general responsible for the union losses at Fredericksburg.
    persuaded the Union to allow women to work as nurses for the Union Army.
    Confederate General nicknamed “stonewall.” Responsible for the southern victory at Bull Run. Lee’s right hand man. Accidentally killed at Chancellorsville.
    30s
  • Q11
    Who was the Civil War Nurse who eventually founded the Red Cross.
    Clara Barton
    W T Sherman
    Dorothea Dix
    30s
  • Q12
    Robert Gould Shaw:
    commanding General at the battle of Gettysburg.
    A member of the 54th Massachusetts. First African American soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism on the attack of Fort Wagner.
    Leader of Pickett’s charge. A last ditch effort to win the battle of Gettysburg. Horribly loses nearly his entire brigade in the defeat.
    30s
  • Q13
    Dorothea Dix:
    Civil War Nurse who eventually founded the Red Cross.
    persuaded the Union to allow women to work as nurses for the Union Army.
    One of the leaders of the 54th Massachusetts
    30s
  • Q14
    Thomas Jackson:
    Confederate General nicknamed “stonewall.” Responsible for the southern victory at Bull Run. Lee’s right hand man. Accidentally killed at Chancellorsville.
    Confederate General of all southern Troops. Was crucial to successes on the battlefield in the defense of Richmond.
    Union general responsible for the union losses at Fredericksburg.
    30s

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