Chapter 4 Section 2

Question 0

Union Advantages

Answer 0

More people, more factories, greater food production, and an extensive railroad system

Question 1

Fort Sumter

Answer 1

An island in Charleston Harbor that was southern but remained in Union hands

Where the first battle of the Civil War began

Question 2

Confederacy Advantages

Answer 2

“King Cotton”, first rate generals, and highly motivated soldiers

Question 3

What was the Unions plan?

Answer 3

Blockade Southern ports to stop import and export, split the confederacy in two by using the Mississippi River, and capture Confederacy capital (Richmond, Virginia)

Question 4

What was the Confederacy strategy?

Answer 4

Defensive, but to attack Union soldiers if the opportunity came

Question 5

Bull Run

Answer 5

First bloodshed on battlefield after Fort Sumter fell

First the Union had the advantage, then Stonewall Jackson gave the advantage to the Confederacy

Question 6

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 6

Gave confederates the upper hand at the Battle of Bull Run

Question 7

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 7

Military commander

His forces captured 2 confederate forts, Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

Grant and Farragut had the Union splitting the Confederacy in two

Question 8

Shiloh

Answer 8

Small church in Tennessee closet to Mississippi River

Demonstrated what a bloody slaughter the war was becoming

Question 9

David G. Farragut

Answer 9

Commander of Union of 40 ships

Seized New Orleans, the confederacy’s largest city and busiest port

Took control of lower Mississippi

Question 10

Robert E. Lee

Answer 10

Commander of Confederacy

Wiling to go beyond military textbook tactics

Drove McClellan away from Richmond

Question 11

Antietam

Answer 11

McClellan ordered his men to pursue Lee and they fought on a creek called Antietam

Bloodiest single-day battle in American history

Lincoln removed McClellan from command

Question 12

Emancipation

Answer 12

Lincoln thought he could authorize the army to emancipate slaves and seize enemy resources

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

Didn’t free slaves immediately because it implied only to areas behind confederate lines, outside Union control

For some gave war a moral purpose by turning war in a fight to free slaves

Question 14

Habaes Corpus

Answer 14

Prevents government from holding citizens without formally charging them with crimes

Lincoln and Jefferson Davis adopted this practice

Question 15

Conscription

Answer 15

A draft that forced men to serve in the army

North led to draft riots, most violent was in New York

Question 16

African Americans in Union army

Answer 16

Suffered discrimination

Served in separate regiments commanded by white officers and earned lower pay for most of war

Question 17

North camp/prison conditions

Answer 17

Slightly better than south

Provided more space and adequate amounts of food

Question 18

South Prison Conditions

Answer 18

Little or no heat

Contracted pneumonia and died

Question 19

Clara Barton

Answer 19

Dedicated Union nurse

Found the American Red Cross after the war

Cared for sick and wounded, often at the front lines of battle

Question 20

Sally Tompkins

Answer 20

Performed so heroically in her hospital duties that she eventually was commissioned as a captain

Question 21

Income Tax

Answer 21

Tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income

First was collected to pay for the war