Chapter 14

Question 1

WHo took control of Mississippi?

Answer 1

Winfield Scott, confederate

Question 2

Rebel Yell

Answer 2

A frightening yell that Confederate soldiers gave when entering battle. Many Northern troops commented on how unnerving it could be

Question 3

Bull Run

Answer 3

fight

Question 4

Army of the Potomac

Answer 4

The main Union army led by a series of generals until Ulysses S. Grant took command in 1863 and led it to the final victory in 1865

Question 5

Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 5

The main Confederate army led for most of the war by Robert E. Lee fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania before surrendering at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

Question 6

Peninsular Campaign of 1862

Answer 6

McClellan landed troops on the Virginia coast to march up the peninsula to capture Richmond.

Question 7

Who kept Tennessee in Confederate Hands?

Answer 7

Stonewall Jackson

Question 8

Contrabands

Answer 8

Also known as contraband of war, the name Union generals gave to former slaves who escaped to the Union lines and worked in support of Union troops

Question 9

Colonization

Answer 9

A plan, popular in the 1830s and briefly considered by President Lincoln, to create colonies in Africa to which former slaves might return. It was never popular with slaves or former slaves themselves.

Question 10

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 10

Decree announced by President Abraham Lincoln formally issued on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all Confederate States still in rebellion.
Lincoln hoped to gain more support for the war.
Saw it as a military strategy.

Question 11

Peace Democrats

Answer 11

Also known as Copperheads, a large faction within the Democratic Party that advocated immediate peace with the Confederacy on terms that would allow it to leave the Union.
Believed that Emancipation Proclamation was leading to a longer, more bloody war.

Question 12

What did Lincoln sign making the Civil War a war to end slavery?

Answer 12

Emacipation Proclamation

Question 13

The Militia Act of 1862

Answer 13

set the pay of black soldiers at the level of military laborers

Question 14

The confederate government was always short on money as

Answer 14

they had limited taxes

Question 15

What did the government do because of this?

Answer 15

Printed more money

Question 16

What did this lead to?

Answer 16

Terrible inflation and food shortages

Question 17

Internal Revenue Service

Answer 17

An agency created by Congress during the Civil War to collect federal taxes in support of the war effort.
Income under 800 dollars was not taxed
Made most people exempt

Question 18

Greenbacks

Answer 18

Paper currency printed on order of Congress based on the federal government’s promise to pay rather than backed by actual gold or silver as security
Result was the creation of a solid monetary system that lasted long after the war

Question 19

What was put in place in 1863?

Answer 19

Military draft enforced

Question 20

New York Draft Riot

Answer 20

A mostly Irish-immigrant protest against conscription in New York City that escalated into class and racial warfare
Federal troops ended the violence.
The North was becoming divided over the war.

Question 21

Both the Union and the Confederacy sought allies among

Answer 21

the tribes in Indian territory

Question 22

How does Stonewall Jackson die?

Answer 22

His troops accidentally shoot him

Question 23

Sanitary Commission

Answer 23

Created in 1861 to improve the medical services and treatment for sick and wounded Union soldiers during the course of the war

Question 24

Dorothea Dix

Answer 24

Organized women to become nurses in the army