Chapter 15 - Section 1 & 2 - Call to Arms and Early Years of the War Flashcards
What are border states?
Slave states that did not secede.
What were the Southern advantages for the war?
- The North must invade the south to win.
- They would be fighting on home turf with local support.
- Most of the nations best military officers were southerners.
What were the Northern advantages of the war?
- 110,000 of the 130,000 factories in the U.S were in the North.
- Three times as much rail track and almost twice as much farm land.
- 2/3 of the nations population lived in the North.
- The North could feed and equip larger armies.
Explain the First Battle of Bull Run.
General McDowell led 30,000 men, mostly untrained. He marched his army south from Washington into Virginia toward a rail station at Manassas. Hundreds of people make a picnic of the day. Confederates were led by P.G.T Beauregard. The Confederate advance stalled, but they were rallied by seeing General Thomas Jackson’s men fighting. He later got the name “Stonewall Jackson”. `
Nearly what percentage of war deaths came from prison camps?
10%.
Which prison camp was the WORST?
Andersonville, Georgia.
True or False?
There was no new technology during the war. If false. Explain why.
False. There was new technology. Such as new rifles and new cannons.
A Union ship, the CSS Virginia was named…
The Merrimack.
Where did the Merrimack sink?
Norfolk, Virginia.
McClellan replaces McDowell after what battle? = East
Bull Run.
March of 1862, McClellan marches how many troops to Richmond? = East
100,000.
Who’s smaller army drove off McClellan’s larger army? = East
Robert E. Lee’s army.
McClellan’s troops attack the larger part of Lee’s army at…? = East
Antietam Creek.
What day was the “bloodiest day of the war”? = East
Battle of Antietam Creek.
Grants forces moved south from ___ capturing confederate forces = West
Kentucky
