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What was the name of the deadly Confederate prison in Georgia?
a) Andersonville
b) Atlanta
c) Albany
d) Augusta

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) To retaliate for lives lost in other Civil War battles.
c) To force Georgia troops to return home to defend their state.
d) The punish the South for seceding from the Union and forming the Confederacy.

What Union general led the northern army on its March to the Sea and destroyed much of Georgia's capital resources?
a) William Sherman
b) Stonewall Jackson
c) Ulysses S. Grant
d) Robert E. Lee

What Civil War battle was the second bloodiest battle of the war?
a) Chickamauga
b) Atlanta
c) Savannah
d) Gettysburg

What was the importance of the Battle of Chickamauga?
a) The winner would control Chattanooga, Tennessee which was a major railroad center for Southern supplies.
b) It would begin the end of the war in the South.
c) It was the headquarters for the Confederacy.
d) The Cherokee Native Americans agreed to fight with the victor.

What was the name of the Union strategy to block the Southern states from importing or exporting all goods?
a) The Anaconda Plan
b) Sherman's Blockade
c) The Chickamauga Plan
d) Lincoln's Blockade

Why was the Anaconda plan unsuccessful?
a) Blockade runners slipped through the blockade.
b) The South had a superior navy.
c) Great Britain found other ways to trade with the South.
d) The Union did not have enough ships to enforce the blockade.

What famous document did President Lincoln write that would free the Confederate slaves unless the South surrendered the Civil War?
a) The Emancipation Proclamation
b) The Declaration of Independence
c) The Proclamation of 1763
d) The Charter of 1732

Approximately how many Union soldiers died at Andersonville prison?
a) 13,000
b) 5,000
c) 50,000
d) 100,000

What was the primary reason so many soldiers died at Andersonville?
a) disease and lack of food
b) other prisoners called the Raiders killed and stole most of the other soldiers' food and supplies
c) Armed guards killed prisoners for fun
d) Prisoners were worked to death

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