SS8H5b TOTD 1

Why was Savannah's port eventually closed at the beginning of the Civil War?

• The workers were all off fighting the Civil War

• The Union Navy had blockaded the entrance to stop goods from going in and out

• Most of the workers were slaves and they were released after the Emancipation Proclamation

• The workers had gone on strike for better wages

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What were the military benefits of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?

• The slaves that were fights for the Confederacy were now free and could go home

• The slaves in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware could now fight for the Union

• The Confederate Army could no longer use the slaves to dig trenches on the battlefields, act as cooks for the Confederate troops, or work in the Confederate hospitals

• The slaves working on Confederate warships were released so the ships went unmanned

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Which battle was the considered a Confederate victory by pushing back the Union Army into Chattanooga, TN?

• The Battle of Atlanta

• The Battle of Chickamauga

• The Battle of Savannah

• The Battle of Antietam

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Which of these was the main reason Atlanta passed Savannah as the most important city in Georgia during the Civil War?

• Atlanta was closer to the majority of fighting in Virginia and North Carolina

• Savannah had been blockaded by Union warships and was cutoff from trading

• Savannah had been captured by the Union Army by 1862

• Abraham Lincoln led the Union war effort from his Atlanta offices

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With 34,000 casualties in just three days, which battle of the Civil War is considered the second bloodiest battle of the war?

• The Battle of Gettysburg

• The Battle of Manassas

• The Battle of Atlanta

• The Battle of Chickamauga

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