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The Civil War
Test Description: These questions align with the GSE for 8th grade Georgia Studies.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What famous document did President Lincoln write that would free the Confederate slaves unless the South surrendered the Civil War?
A
The Proclamation of 1763
B
The Charter of 1732
C
The Declaration of Independence
D
The Emancipation Proclamation
2) What was the name of the Union strategy to block the Southern states from importing or exporting all goods?
A
Sherman's Blockade
B
The Anaconda Plan
C
The Chickamauga Plan
D
Lincoln's Blockade
3) Why was the Anaconda plan unsuccessful?
A
The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade.
B
The South had a superior navy.
C
Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.
D
Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South.
4) What Civil War battle was the second bloodiest battle of the war?
A
Atlanta
B
Gettysburg
C
Chickamauga
D
Savannah
5) What was the importance of the Battle of Chickamauga?
A
The Cherokee Native Americans agreed to fight with the victor.
B
It would begin the end of the war in the South.
C
The winner would control Chattanooga, Tennessee which was a major railroad center for Southern supplies.
D
It was the headquarters for the Confederacy.
6) What Union general led the northern army on its March to the Sea and destroyed much of Georgia's capital resources?
A
Robert E. Lee
B
Stonewall Jackson
C
William Sherman
D
Ulysses S. Grant
7) What was Sherman's purpose for destroying both military and civilian buildings called the Scorched Earth policy?
A
To end civilian support for the war effort and shorten the war.
B
The punish the South for seceding from the Union and forming the Confederacy.
C
To force Georgia troops to return home to defend their state.
D
To retaliate for lives lost in other Civil War battles.
8) What was the name of the deadly Confederate prison in Georgia?
A
Atlanta
B
Augusta
C
Andersonville
D
Albany
9) Approximately how many Union soldiers died at Andersonville prison?
A
50,000
B
100,000
C
5,000
D
13,000
10) What was the primary reason so many soldiers died at Andersonville?
A
Prisoners were worked to death
B
Armed guards killed prisoners for fun
C
disease and lack of food
D
other prisoners called the Raiders killed and stole most of the other soldiers' food and supplies
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