Cicil War-1/6 Flashcards
Who had an established structure and organization?
Abraham Lincoln
Who had to start from scratch and was rather aloof and uncompromising?
Jefferson Davis
What issue did Abraham Lincoln focus on?
Preserving the Union
What strategy did Lincoln have to keep the border states?
A soft strategy
What states never seceded?
Maryland and Kentucky
Where did guerrilla war break out?
Missouri
What state split into two?
Virginia and West Viginia
What did the southern landscape have?
Dense forest, uneven terrain, humidity, heat
What did not understanding the southern terrain cause?
Errors in judgement
What enables the union to transcend environmental barriers?
Technological superiority
How many southern forts remained in unions hands? And what was the most important fort?
2 and fort Sumter
What started the war?
Davis firing on fort Sumter
Where did McDowell go to Confederate soldiers under Beauregard?
Manasses, Virginia
What did the union think at first battle bull run?
What really happened?
That they were winning. They really lost.
What was the nickname given at the First Battle Bull Run?
Stonewall Jackson
What was the result of the First Battle Bull Run?
Illusions broken and confederates confidence boosted
What was torn between two sides?
Tribes
Who sided with the confederacy?
More prosperous Indians
Who gained control of most of the Indian territory?
ProUnion Indians
What did both sides rely on?
Volunteers
On April 1862 (confederacy) and March 1863 (Union) passed what law?
Conscription laws
What was the war fought by?
Who not by?
By citizens
Not by professionals
What was the problem with the war being fought by those people?
They elected their own officials and not disciplined,
Eventually we see what emerge on both sides?
Strong military leaders
