Chapter 9 SS test

Question 1

What states seceded from the Union and what did they become known as…

Answer 1

South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
-Confederate States of America

Question 2

What were the primary motivations of war according to the Union? How did they change over time?

Answer 2

To preserve the Union and get rid of slavery

Question 3

Which Union states still allowed slavery and why was Lincoln so concerned about them?

Answer 3

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri

If Lincoln upset the states, they would join the Confederacy instead.

Question 4

The advantages the North had over the South at the onset of the war…

Answer 4

Larger population, stronger economy, more effective transportation system, and more natural resources

Question 5

The advantages the South had over the North at the onset of the war…

Answer 5

Stronger feelings about their cause and military leadership

Question 6

What were the major battles of the Civil War?

Answer 6

1. Fort Sumter
2. Bull Run
3. Shiloh
4. Antietam
5. Vicksburg
6. Gettysburg

Question 7

What was Fort Sumters significance?

Answer 7

First shot of the Civil War fired at Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina.

Question 8

What was Bull Runs significance?

Answer 8

First major battle of the Civil War on July 21, 1861.

Took place near Manassas, Virginia, and a creek named Bull Run.

Confederates won

Generals: General Irvin McDollell (Union) and PGT Beauregard (Confederates)

Question 9

What was Shiloh’s significance?

Answer 9

Confederates attacked a Union camp at Shiloh.
Two days of fighting- 23,000+ casualties.

No clear winner

Generals: Ulysses S. Grant, Don Carlos Buell (Union)
Albert Sidney Johnston (Confederates)

Question 10

What was Antietam’s significance?

Answer 10

On September 16, 1862, Union Major General George McClellan attacked Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Sharpsburg, Maryland.

Fought on Union territory

Bloodiest day in America’s history

Question 11

What was Vicksburg’s significance?

Answer 11

Surrendered to the Union on July 4, 1863.

Union gained control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.

Grant (Union) circled behind Vicksburg and cut the railway that gave supplies to Vicksburg.

Question 12

What was Gettysburg’s significance?

Answer 12

Confederate army weakened

Confederate General Lee’s second attempt to invade North.

General Meadet Grant (Union)
General Pickett and Lee (Confederacy)

Pickett led army into enemy fire.
Lee’s army was weakened. Union won.

Question 13

What was the Union’s strategy of the Anaconda plan?

Answer 13

To circle the Confederacy and cut off supplies and help, making the Confeds surrounded and isolated.

Question 14

What was Lincoln’s second inaugural address?

Answer 14

He said slavery was the cause of the war and that it would be fair if God made the war end when enough blood has been spilled to make up for slavery. He also wished for peace.

Question 15

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 15

The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 granted freedom to enslaved people in the Confederate states.

African Americans to serve in the Union military.

Question 16

What did the Emancipation Proclamation state and when was it issued?

Answer 16

Granted freedom to slaves in Confed states

African Americans to serve in the Union military

September 22, 1862
January 1, 1863

Question 17

What was the Gettysburg address?

Answer 17

President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address restated the purpose of the Civil War as a war for freedom and equality.

Question 18

What was Sherman’s March to sea?

Answer 18

Union General Sherman captured Atlanta and Savannah on his March to the Sea.

Question 19

Where did the war end?

Answer 19

Appomattox Court House

Question 20

What war tactic did this exemplify?

Answer 20

Total war frightened Confederate civilians and soldiers.

Question 21

What does the 13th Amendment state?

Answer 21

All enslaved people were freed

Question 22

How did the war affect African Americans?

Answer 22

Unsure of new rights and freedoms

Uneducated and very poor.

Question 23

How did the war affect women?

Answer 23

(BEFORE WAR)

Worked as nurses.

Took care of their homes, farms, and families

Raised money for war effort.

Volunteered making socks, canning food, and doing whatever was needed

After the war, women returned to the home. They had no more rights than before, and they were expected to go back to “business as usual.”

Question 24

What was the North like after the war?

Answer 24

Strengthened the economic power

During the Civil War, people in the North began viewing themselves as “Americans” rather than as belonging to a particular state.

Question 25

What was the North like after the war? (economically)

Answer 25

Strengthened the economic power

(DURING) People in the North began viewing themselves as “Americans” rather than as belonging to a particular state.

Question 26

How did the war allow the federal government to expand?

Answer 26

Extended its powers

Expanded its powers during the Civil War to raise taxes and create currency to pay for war

After the war, the government’s expanded powers remained.

Made sure the Thirteenth Amendment was followed.

Charged with guarding the rights and freedoms of the people of the United States.

Question 27

How many Americans were killed?

Answer 27

More than 600,000 Americans were killed during the Civil War. This is the largest loss of American life of any war in history.

Question 28

What was the South like after the war? (economically)

Answer 28

South burned and destroyed

The region was economically destroyed.

No factories, few buildings, transportation was limited, lost slave labor.

Question 29

What was the South’s causalities during the war?

Answer 29

1/4 of all Southern men killed in the war.

Question 30

What was the North’s causalities during the war?

Answer 30

1 of every 16 white men from North lost their lives.

Question 31

How did the Civil War affect sectionalism?

Answer 31

The country split in half during the war so the Southerners were interested with the South and the Northerners for the North.

Question 32

What major event happened a week after the war ended?

Answer 32

Abraham Lincoln was shot with a pistol in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.