Chapter 20-Girding For War 1861-1865

Question 1

Five slate states–Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia– that did not secede during the Civil War. To keep the states in the Union, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the war was not about abolishing slavery but rather protecting the union.

Answer 1

Border States(423)

Question 2

Mountainous region that broke away from Virginia in 1861 go form its own state after Virginia seceded from the Union. Most of the residents of West Virginia were independent farmers and miners who did not own slaves and thus opposed the Confederate Cause.

Answer 2

West Virginia(423)

Question 3

Diplomatic row that threatened to bring the British into the Civil war on the side of the Confederacy, after a Union warship stopped a British steamer and arrested two Confederate diplomats on board

Answer 3

Trent Affair(430)

Question 4

British-built and manned Confederate warship that raided Union shipping during the Civl War. One of many built by the British for the Confederacy, despite Union protests.

Answer 4

Alabama(430)

Question 5

Two well-armed ironclad war-ships constructed for the Confederacy by a British firm seeking to avoid war with the United States, the British government purchased the two ships for its Royal Navy instead.

Answer 5

Laird Rams(431)

Question 6

Unified Canadian government created by Britain to bolster Canadians against potent ion attacks or overturns from the United States.

Answer 6

Dominion of Canada(431)

Question 7

Petition requiring law enforcement officers to present detained individuals before the court to examine the legality of the arrest. Protects individuals from arbitrary state action. Suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War.

Answer 7

Writ of have as corpus(432)

Question 8

Uprising, mostly of working-class Irish Americans, in protest of the draft. RIoters were particularly incensed by the ability of the rich to hire substitutes or purchase exemptions.

Answer 8

New York draft riots (433)

Question 9

Increased duties back up to 1846 levels to raise revenue for the Civil War

Answer 9

Moral Tariff Act(434)

Question 10

Paper current issued by the Union Treasury during the Civil War. Inadequately supported by gold, greenbacks fluctuated in value throughout the war, reaching a low of 39 cents on the dollar.

Answer 10

Greenbacks(434)

Question 11

Network of member balms that could issue currency against purchased government bonds. Created during the Civil War to establish a stable national currency and stimulate the sale of war bonds

Answer 11

National Banking System(434)

Question 12

A federal law that sold settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it. The act helped make land accessible to hundreds of thousands of westward-moving settlers, but many people also found disappointment when Teri leaned was infertile or they saw speculators grabbing up the best land.

Answer 12

Homestead Act(436)

Question 13

Government agency founded with the help of Elizabeth Blackwell that rained nurses, collected medical supplies and equipped hospitals in an effort to help the Union army. The commission help professionalize nursing and gave many women the confidence and organizational skills to propel the women’s movement in the postwar years.

Answer 13

U.S. Sanitary Commission(436)

Question 14

the U.S. minister to England during the Civil War who kept the pressure on the British government to pay for destroyed shipping.

Answer 14

Charles Francis Adams

Question 15

treated Union with contempt. abandoned Maximillian in 1867 and Mexico once again independent. nephew of napoleon bonaparte, and elected emperor of france from 1852-1870, he invaded mexico when the mexican government couldn’t repay loans from french bankers. he sent in an army and set up a new government under maximillian. he refused lincoln’s request that france withdraw. after the civil war, the u.s. sent an army to enforce the request and napoleon withdrew.

Answer 15

Napoleon III

Question 16

Established an infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers in Richmond, Virginia. When Confederate hospitals were brought under military control, Jefferson Davis commissioned her as an officer with the rank of captain, making her the first female military officer in American history

Answer 16

Sally Tompkins

Question 17

America’s first female physician, she helped organize the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War to aid the Union War effort by training nurses, collecting medical supplies and equipping hospitals.

Answer 17

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 18

Massachusetts born teacher and philanthropist who served as a nurse with the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war she became involved with the newly-formed International Red Cross, serving as the first president of the American branch from 1882 to 1904.

Answer 18

Clara Barton

Question 19

Archduke of Austria, he became emperor of Mexico in 1864, installed by French Emperor Napoleon III. Well-intentioned but hapless, he saw his government collapse in 1867 when the French withdrew their support under pressure from the United States.

Answer 19

Maximilian

Question 20

U.S. senator from Mississippi and president of the Confederate States of America. He, a West Point graduate, staunchly defended slavery and Southern rights throughout his career, but initially opposed secession in 1860. As president of the Confederacy, he faced the formidable task of overcoming southern localism in directing his war effort. After the war he was briefly imprisoned, but pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1868.

Answer 20

Jefferson Davis

Question 21

South Carolina location where Confederate forces fire the first shots of the Civil War in April of 1861, after Union forces attempted to provision the fort.

Answer 21

Fort Sumter (422)