CHAPTER 8 A COUNTRY AT WAR

WHICH GENERAL SURRENDERED TO THE UNION ON APRIL 9, 1865?

ROBERT E. LEE

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION SET FREE ALL ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN THE STATES AT WAR WITH THE UNION. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

THE LIVINGSTON LADIES MILITARY AID MADE CLOTHING FOR

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM MISSISSIPPI SERVED IN THE WAR AS NURSES, SPIES, AND COOKS. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

A. Surrounding the fort and cutting off its supplies. B. Pretending to retreat to the north before attacking. C. Firing cannons from the Mississippi River. D. Attacking from the east. UNION FORCES WON THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG BY ________

A. SURROUNDING THE FORT AND CUTTING OFF ITS SUPPLIES.

WHAT WERE THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA?

A GOVERNMENT OF SOUTHERN STATES THAT DECLARED THEY HAD LEFT THE UNION.

A. General Johnston joined the Union Army. B. General Grant was badly wounded. C. Confederate troops moved into Tennessee. D. Union troops moved into Mississippi. AFTER THE BATTLE OF SHILOH ______.

D. UNION TROOPS MOVED INTO MISSISSIPPI.

MISSISSIPPIAN JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS _______________.

THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY.

A. Moved their families to the North. B. Wanted to rejoin the Union. C. Signed up to serve in the military. D. Refused to volunteer as soldiers. WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BEGAN, MANY MISSISSIPPI MEN __________.

C. THEY SIGNED UP TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY.

HOW WAS THE CONFEDERACY’S CONSTITUTION DIFFERENT FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?

IT MADE SLAVERY LEGAL.

WHAT DID THE DEFEAT OF VICKSBURG GIVE THE UNION?

CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

WHAT CONTRIBUTION DID EMMA BALFOUR MAKE DURING THE CIVIL WAR?

HER DIARY GAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG.

WHAT EVENT STARTED THE CIVIL WAR AND WHAT WERE 2 EFFECTS OF THE WAR?

THE ATTACK ON FORT SUMTER. THE 2 EFFECTS WERE, THE LOSS OF MANY LIVES AND CHANGING ROLES OF WOMEN.

IDENTIFY 2 TURNING POINTS IN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE RESULT OF EACH.

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. IT FREED ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN STATES AT WAR WITH THE UNION. THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. CAUSED MAJOR LOSSES FOR BOTH SIDES BUT THE SOUTH DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH SOLDIERS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE ONES WHO DIED.

MISSISSIPPI’S RAILROADS CONTRIBUTED TO THE WAR BY CARRYING SOLDIERS AND SUPPLIES. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

AT THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, CONFEDERATE FORCES

SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES

WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF SHILOH NAMED AFTER?

A CHURCH ON THE BATTLEFIELD

HOW DID THE WOMEN VOLUNTEER DURING THE WAR?

SERVING AS NURSES

MISSISSIPPI’S INLAND TOWNS WERE IMPORTANT TO THE WAR EFFORT BECAUSE OF THE

FACTORIES, STOREHOUSES, AND RAILROAD STATIONS

IN APRIL 1862, WHERE DID THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS ATTACK UNION FORCES?

TENNESSEE

Don’t struggle with this information. Study a little every night. If you do this, I am sure you will win the Battle. THE END