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Question 1

Jefferson Davis

Answer 1

President of the Confederate States of America.

Question 2

Confederate States of America

Answer 2

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.

Question 3

Attack on Fort Sumter (1861)

Answer 3

Federal fort in SC that was attached by Confederate forces. The Union surrendered the fort and the Civil War had begun.

Question 4

blockade

Answer 4

Military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving its enemy’s ports.

Question 5

Robert E. Lee

Answer 5

Commander of the Confederate Army.

Question 6

Acaconda Plan

Answer 6

Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River.

Question 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

Union General who forced the surrender of Vicksburg and became commanding general of all Union armies. He forced General Lee to fight a series of decisive battles which led to the Confederate surrender. He believed in “total war”, a concept that mean destroys the enemies means of production and anything else that would help its war effort. He later became the 18th President of the U.S.

Question 8

Border States

Answer 8

States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. West Virginia became a border state in 1863 when it broke away from Virginia.

Question 9

Battle of the Ironclads

Answer 9

1862, a naval battle between the Confederate ship, the Virginia(Merrimack) and the Union ship, the Monitor, in Chesapeake Bay. Neither ship was victorious.

Question 10

Battle of Antietam (1862)

Answer 10

Civil War battle fought in Maryland, the single bloodiest day in U.S. military history, and General Lee’s march North was stopped.

Question 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 11

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union. Slaves in the border states and areas under Union control did not free slaves.

Question 12

Homestead Act (1862)

Answer 12

Encouraged westward settlement by allowing heads of families to buy 160 acres of land for a small fee ($10-30); settlers were required to develop and remain on the land for five years. Over 400,000 families got land through this law.

Question 13

conscription

Answer 13

A military draft

Question 14

Habeas Corpus

Answer 14

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. This was suspended during the Civil War.

Question 15

South/Confederacy advantages/disadvantages at the start of the war

Answer 15

Advantages- Most of the fighting will be in the south so they will know the land better and many experienced military leaders.
Disadvantages- Less people to fight, fewer factories/infrastructure like railroads and a smaller army and navy.

Question 16

North/Union advantages/disadvantages at the start of the war

Answer 16

Advantages- Larger army/navy, most of the factories, higher population/army and more mileage of railroads to transport goods.
Disadvantages- Lack of military leadership in the beginning to invade the South and challenge General Lee.