Milestone Minutes 11

What was the impact of Sherman’s “March to the Sea”?

• It convinced the South that they could win the war.

• It convinced President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• It forced Robert E. Lee to evacuate Georgia.

• It left a path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah that crippled the Confederacy.

Who won the Civil War?

• North or Union

• South or Confederates

• They agreed to both surrender

What was the name of the prison in Georgia that held Union soldiers?

• Antietam

• Andersonville

• Civil War prison

• Milledgeville

What were the conditions like at Andersonville prison?

• Good, everyone had their own prison cell

• Bad, people had died of disease and malnutrition

• Bad, people had to share prison cells

• Good, they were all given 3 meals a day

What did the Fugitive Slave Act state?

• All slaves that escaped to the North must be returned to their owners in the South

• All slaves can be free.

• All slaves that escaped in the South must be returned to their owners in the North

• Slavery is allowed in all states.

What was the purpose of the Union’s blockade of Georgia’s coast?

• To destroy rail lines

• To keep the South from getting goods or supplies from other countries

• to take over Atlanta

• to force the confederates to surrender.

Increased markets, more efficient trade, and the rise of Atlanta can all be attributed to...

• Sherman’s March to the Sea.

• The Yazoo Land Fraud.

• Conflicts between Georgians and Native Americans.

• The establishment of railroads in the 1800s.

Which of the following best describes the effects of the Civil War on Georgia?

• Small farmers suffered a great deal at the hands of the Union army, but people in Atlanta were spared any hardship.

• The war led to whites finally accepting blacks as their equals.

• Other than soldiers dying in faraway battles, people in Georgia never really felt the effects of the war.

• Thousands of Georgians died fighting in the war while many others suffered at home.

The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was known as?

• New South

• Reconstruction

• Atlanta Compromise

• Georgia Platform

Which is one way that President Lincoln attempted to make it easy for Southern states to rejoin the Union?

• Wanted to make all citizens eligible to vote

• Only wanted 10% of the Southern voters to swear allegiance to the US to regain statehood

• Wanted all states to approve the 13th Amendment in order to regain statehood

• Developed the Freedmen’s Bureau as a way of providing resources to former slaves