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Question 1

Why did Winfield Scott want Robert E. Lee to command the Union troops?

Answer 1

Lee was considered the best senior officer in US Army

Question 2

Why did Robert E. Lee decide to support the confederacy?

Answer 2

He didn’t want to fight against his home state?

Question 3

Why did the South have such a strong military tradition? (71S)

Answer 3

-7/8 military colleges in the south
-1/3 of the union officers chose to fight for the south
-South had a large number of trained army officers

Question 4

Why did the North have such a strong navy tradition? (3HM)

Answer 4

• ¾ of Navy officers were from the North
• Had large pool of trained sailors
• Most warships and all but one shipyard was under Union control

Question 5

What were the Union advantages?

Answer 5

More people, more miles of railroad, factories, better navy, and more money

Question 6

What advantages did the Confederates have?

Answer 6

Better trained officers and they were fighting on familiar ground

Question 7

What was the Legal Tender Act?

Answer 7

Created a national currency and issuing greenbacks that were backed up by gold

Question 8

What was wrong with the South printing their own money?

Answer 8

It wasn’t backed up with gold and it caused rapid inflation

Question 9

Who were the War Democrats?

Answer 9

They opposed ending slavery, but supported the war

Question 10

Who were the Copperheads?

Answer 10

Northern Democrats who opposed the war

Question 11

What is habeas corpus?

Answer 11

the right of a person to hear charges against him/her, leads to right to a trial

Question 12

Why would Europe ever consider helping the South?

Answer 12

they produced cotton

Question 13

What did Britain say the South would have to do before they would talk about helping them?

Answer 13

They would have to have a major victory first.

Question 14

Describe what happened in the Trent Affair.

Answer 14

James Mason and John Slidell were sent by the South aboard the Trent to be permanent ministers to Britain and Spain. However, the Union ship San Jacinto, intercepted this ship and captured Mason and Slidell.

Question 15

List ALL of the ways the Civil War was considered “modern”. (CBATMR)

Answer 15

• First war made of mostly civilian volunteers
• First war to use cone-shaped bullets
• First war to use attrition
• First war with new military technology
• First war to use new military tactics
• First war to use railroads

Question 16

What is attrition?

Answer 16

Wearing down one side through exhaustion of soldiers and resources

Question 17

What was the South’s goal? Did it ever change? If so, what did it change to?

Answer 17

States’ Rights (It never changed)

Question 18

What kind of war did President Jefferson Davis want to fight?

Answer 18

He wanted a defensive war using attrition

Question 19

Why did Southerners not like Davis’ plan?

Answer 19

They felt they were superior fighters

Question 20

What was the North’s goal? Did it ever change? If so, what did it change to?

Answer 20

The North’s goal was to preserve the Union. It changed to ending slavery.

Question 21

What was the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 21

The blockade of Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to split the Confederacy.

Question 22

What was the outcome of the Trent Affair?

Answer 22

Britain issued an ultimatum to the US saying that they’d fight if Mason and Slidell weren’t released. Therefore, Lincoln freed them, but banned them from leaving the country.