Chapter 4 Section 3

Question 0

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 0

Began when Confederate soldiers led by A. P. Hill encountered several brigades of Union cavalry under the command of John Buford

Cemetery Ridge

Confederates lost hope of defeating the Union

Question 1

Gettysburg

Answer 1

Where the most decisive battle of the war was fought

Question 2

Gettysburg Address

Answer 2

“Remade America”

In helped the country to realize that it was not just a collection of individual states but one unified nation

Question 3

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 3

Grant had his forces sack Jackson, the Capitol of the state

Grant ordered 2 frontal attacks that failed. Then he settled in for a siege. He cut off the residents from all their resources and they asked for terms of surrender.

Confederacy was cut in 2

Question 4

William Sherman

Answer 4

Grant appointed Sherman as commander of the military division of the Mississippi

Changed course of the war

Question 5

Total War

Answer 5

Grant and Sherman reasoned that it was the strength of the people’s will that was keeping the war going

If the Union could destroy Southern population’s willpower fight, the Confederacy would collapse

Strategy was to decimate Lee’s army

Question 6

Sherman’s March

Answer 6

In the Spring of 1864, Sherman began his march southeast through Georgia to the sea, creating a wide path of destruction

Destroyed houses, livestock, and railroads

Sherman wanted to make generations sick of war

Question 7

Election of 1864

Answer 7

Lincoln faced opposition from Democrats, republicans, and Northerns(dismayed by war length and casualties)

Lincoln thought he would lose but Sherman’s victories inspired the North and Lincoln won reelection

Question 8

Town called Appomattox Court House

Answer 8

Lee and Grant met at a private home to arrange a Confederate surrender

Terms were generous
Grant paroled Lee’s soldiers, sent them home with their possessions and rations, and could kept their side arms
War was over

Question 9

North Economy after the war

Answer 9

Boomed

Question 10

South Economy after the war

Answer 10

devastated

War marked the end of slavery as a labor system but also wrecked most of the regions industry and farmland

Question 11

Old-Fashioned War, or the First Modern War

Answer 11

Civil War had been called this

Two deadliest technological improvements were the rifle and minié ball(soft lead bullet)

Ironclad ship
(North-Monitor vs South Merrimack)

Question 12

13th Amendment

Answer 12

Abolished slavery within the United States

Question 13

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 13

Assassinated President Lincoln

Actor and sympathizer

Union cavalry trapped him in a Virginia tobacco shed and shot him dead