Answer the following questions. 1) Choose the best answer.

The Western Theater had to do with controlling the ___.
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Tennessee River
Trans-Mississippi region
railroads

2) Choose the best answer.

Native Americans under General ___ fought for the Confederacy.
Robert E. Lee
Albert S. Johnston
David Farragut
Benjamin Butler
Stand Watie

3) Choose the best answer.

General Grant had the advantages of a system of ___ to move his troops, an advantage not shared by the South.
railroads
wagons
tunnels
ships
trails

4) Choose the best answer.

In February 1862, General Grant took ___ on the Tennessee River.
Fort Pickens
Fort Donelson
Pittsburg Landing
Shiloh
Fort Henry

5) Choose the best answer.

Grant then captured ___ on the Cumberland River.
Fort Donelson
Vicksburg
Fort McHenry
New Orleans
Fort Henry

6) Match. General Johnston was reinforced by men under General

and camped at

, Mississippi.

7) Choose the best answer.

The Battle of ___ was the bloodiest battle in American history up until that time.
Shiloh
Bull Run
Antietam
Manassas
Vicksburg

8) Match.

Admiral

sailed a Union fleet into the mouth of the Mississippi River and took control of

.

9) Choose the best answer.

The only railroad bridge to the Trans-Mississippi region held by the South by 1862 was at ___.
Memphis, Tennessee
Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
Corinth, Mississippi

10) Choose the best answer.

Benjamin Butler offended the ___ of New Orleans and rankled the people of the South.
children
soldiers
slaves
ladies

11) Match the names with their correct placement on the map.

Appalachian Mountains
Letters and arrows point out political and geographical features on a map of the southeastern United States.

Cairo

Corinth

Cumberland River

Fort Donelson

Fort Henry

Knoxville

Memphis

Mississippi

Mississippi River

New Orleans

Pittsburg Landing

Tennessee

Tennessee River

Trans-Appalachia

Trans-Mississippi

Vicksburg

12) Choose the best answer.

The map shows events taking place in the ___ Theater.

A map of Tennessee and surrounding states

Western
Eastern
Trans-Mississippi