2 Module 18 slides Lessons 1-5

Question 1

Why was the Monitor so amazing?

Answer 1

Because it saved the Union’s fleet and continued the blockade.

Question 2

What was the Western Campaign?

Answer 2

It focused on taking control of the Mississippi River

Question 3

What did the western campaign or the union strategy in the west?

Answer 3

-Would cut off eastern part of Confederacy from food sources in West
-Union could use bases along the Mississippi River

Question 4

Which battle did Confederates fail to take Missouri in?

Answer 4

Battle of Pea Ridge

Question 5

Who helped the Confederates?

Answer 5

Cherokee Native Americans

Question 6

Why didn’t Abraham Lincoln free the slvaes?

Answer 6

-Did not believe he had constitutional power

-Worried about the effects

Question 7

Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves at?

Answer 7

freeing slaves only in areas controlled by Confederacy

Question 8

What happened to the South since they had no slaves?

Answer 8

The loss of slavery crippled the South’s ability to wage war.

Question 9

Why did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 9

President Lincoln realized that one way to weaken the South was to free the slave
Also the Abolitionists wanted Lincoln to free the slaves.

Question 10

What did African Americans do after they were free?

Answer 10

volunteered to fight

Question 11

What gave African Americans the right to join the army in South Carolina?

Answer 11

The war Department gave Contrabands

Question 12

In July 1862 Congress decided to let African Americans join the army as what?

Answer 12

labors

Question 13

What did the 54th Massachusetts Infantry do?

Answer 13

Helped attack South Carolina’s Fort Wagner

Question 14

What was the problem for African Americans that would join the army?

Answer 14

-African Americans soldiers received less pay than white soldiers
-Faced greater dangers b/c if captured by Confederates they could be returned to Slavery

Question 15

Since African Americans if captured during war could be sent back to slavery what did Abraham Lincoln suggest?

Answer 15

Lincoln suggest these soldiers be rewarded by getting the right to vote

Question 16

What political party were copperheads?

Answer 16

democrats

Question 17

What did Copperheads call themselves? What did they believe in?

Answer 17

Peace Democrats
They believed war was not necessary

Question 18

How did President Lincoln see Copperheads?

Answer 18

Lincoln saw Copperheads as a threat to the war effort.

Question 19

Since, President Lincoln did not like Copperheads what did he do?

Answer 19

He had Copperheads put in jail with no evidence and no trial. To do this, he ignored their right of habeas corpus.

Question 20

Why did a riot in New York Break out?

Answer 20

B/c Congress approved the draft of forced military service, it’s a lot of money to get out of it

Question 21

Where did a riot break out because of a military draft?

Answer 21

New York

Question 22

How were troops on the battle fields?

Answer 22

-Endless rows of troops fired directly at one another
-Many men died to gain every inch of groud

Question 23

What were the main killers of the battle?

Answer 23

-They did not have medicines to stop infections.

-The biggest killer in the war was disease, such as typhoid, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.

Question 24

How was life for prisoners if captured?

Answer 24

Military prisoners on both sides lived in misery.

  -They had little shelter, food, or clothing.

  -Starvation and disease killed thousands.

Question 25

What did people that were to old or young to go to war do?

Answer 25

Worked in factories and farms

Question 26

Why were woman mainly the back bone of the war while men were gone?

Answer 26

On farms, woman performed daily chores usually done by men

Question 27

What did Clara Barton do for the men at battle and the union?

Answer 27

Organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield

Question 28

What did Sally Louisa Tompkins do?

Answer 28

In the South established a small hospital that became a major army hospital

Question 29

What did Clara Bartons work led to?

Answer 29

Her work led to the forming of the organization that would become the American Red Cross

Question 30

What did President Lincoln do after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 30

He dedicated a new cemetery at Gettysburg and delivered the Gettysburg Address

Question 31

What was happening with General Ulysses after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 31

-Ulysses kept moving toward Richmond but suffered huge casualties.

-Failure to capture Richmond by election of 1864 distressed Lincoln.

Question 32

Where did General Ulysses break through Confederate defenses at on April 2, 1865?

Answer 32

Petersburg, Virginia

Question 33

Where did Robert E. Lee retreat to after General Ulysses broke through Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Virginia?

Answer 33

Richmond, Virginia

Question 34

Where did the Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee’s forces surrendered at for the end of the Civil War?

Answer 34

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia,

Question 35

What were the ended of the Civil War effects/

Answer 35

-Almost 620,000 Americans killed

-The South’s defeat ended slavery.

-Majority of former slaves had no homes or jobs.

-Southern economy was in ruins.

-Tremendous amount of hostility remained.

-Many questioned how the United States could be united again.