Civil war

Question 1

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Union

Answer 1

He will not attack the south. Will defend the forts that are US property. Must not be friends, but not enemies. Wants to preserve the union.

Question 2

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Slavery

Answer 2

Doesn’t want to touch slavery initially, didn’t think it was his right. He wants to preserve the union and to keep the boarder states.

Question 3

Fort Sumter Sc, April 12th, 1861q

Answer 3

Fort Sumter in the South is being threatened to be taken over. Doesn’t want to let the union dissolve so he doesn’t want to turn over to the south. The north would be looked at as the aggressor if they supplied the fort. England might support the south. Decide to send supplies, not supplying them, the south finds that enough reason for shots fired.

Question 4

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Importance of border states

Answer 4

Deleware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Slave states loyal to the union. Essential to keep them loyal. They’re helpful to the north. More than 50% of the southern white population is in this group. Manufacturing in those boarder states. Ohio River in Kentucky, allowed to cross the river without landing in enemy land.

Question 5

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
King cotton Loses to King Corn

Answer 5

Corn and wheat shipped over to England for their bad harvest. Cotton isn’t as essential.

Question 6

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Suspending many civil rights

Answer 6

Habeas Corpus, freedom of press. Deems it necessary to suspend these rights. Draft begins. Many enlisted are Irish immigrants, don’t like they have to fight the war for slavery which would increase competition.

Question 7

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 7

Thinks it’s not going to be a short war, the south will fight to the end.

Question 8

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Anaconda plan

Answer 8

Use a naval blocade around the south. Liberate the slaves. Take the mississippi and cut the south in half. It is a war of nutrition, who will die first? Total war, destruction of railroads and towns.

Question 9

1861- Lincolns goals for the war Southern plan to win the war

Question 10

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Paying for the war

Question 11

1861- Lincolns goals for the war Bull Run /Manassas

Answer 11

General Irwin McDowell hope to end the war and push at bull run. The south is able to hold and push the advance of the union troops because of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Convinces everybody that it’s going to be a long war.

Question 12

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Northern opposition to the war
Copperheads

Answer 12

Peace democrats. They wanted the north to make peace with the south. Live north of the Ohio river. There is a fear of free slaves making their way to the north to take their jobs.

Question 13

1861- Lincolns goals for the war Southern and civil liberties

Question 14

1861- Lincolns goals for the war
Southern opposition to the war

Question 15

1862
Union Success in the West

Answer 15

George McClellan new general. Terrible combat general. Cannot stand Lincoln. Lincoln wants them to attack and try to take Richmond.

Question 16

1862
Peninsular Campaign

Answer 16

George McClellan plan. wants to go to Yorktown, unload the entire platoon and take Richmond. Lincoln agrees. Sail down for an invasion of Virginia. Keep getting delayed by silly pranks. Used large oak trunks and make them look like cannons. He refuses to advance.

Question 17

1862
Antietam- Lee’s reasons for invasion

Answer 17

Lee’s able to push McClellan back down the peninsula. Lee plans to come to Antietam because if they win on Northern war, they might win.

Question 18

1862
Antietam’s impact on lincoln

Answer 18

Lincoln is forced to use abolition to end the war. Keeps the Europeans out of the war, since it’s deemed morally run. McClellan is fired because he had the battle plans for the south. Let general Lee escape, they weren’t aggressive enough.

Question 19

1863
Emancipation proclamation
Impact on slaves

Answer 19

Freed some of the slaves. Freed all the slaves in the south who were in rebellion to the union. Boarder states’ slaves were not free. Kept them to keep them on their side. Made it a fight to the finish. Start taking a role in the battle

Question 20

1863
Emancipation proclamation
Reasons for proclamation

Answer 20

Abolition is the best way to preserve the union. Use it to keep the British out of the war.

Question 21

1863
African Americans in the war

Answer 21

General Benjamin Butler used confiscation acts of 1861-64 to help support the war. Runaway slaves helped support the army. Labeling them contraband, they were able to be kept to the north. 54th Massachusetts, regiment of mostly black soldiers. Helped lead the attack on Fort Wagner, 1863.

Question 22

1863
Gettysburg
Lee’s reasons for invasion

Answer 22

Want to continue to attack the North to quickly end the war in victory. Pickett’s army is told to charge even though they don’t have the high ground and gets demolished.

Question 23

1863
Gettysburg
Importance of Battle

Answer 23

Fredericksburg in 1862 was a huge upset as there was a lot of men lost on the Northern side as Lee was able to take the high ground and plow down union soldiers. North needed a win. Lee attacks Meade’s solders, July 1-3. Day 2, Joshua Chamberlain was in charge, was a professor, did not let anybody get around the union flank. Held the confederates back.

Question 24

1863
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address

Answer 24

Dedicates the battle ground as a cemetary. Tells of their hopes for the future.

Question 25

1863
Importance of Vicksburg

Answer 25

Last major link connecting the confederacy. July 4th, lay siege to Vicksburg and choke them out. They surrender after not letting anything in or out. It demolishes the southern army. Effectively cutting the south in half.

Question 26

1864
Grant’s Idea of total war

Answer 26

At the battle of missionary Ridge, Grant is able to take Chattanooga, and all they need is an invasion of Atlanta. Grant leads troops to fight series of battles to wear down Lee’s battle. Final battle at Petersburg.

Question 27

1864
Sherman’s march to the sea

Answer 27

William Tecumseh Sherman takes over the battle of Atlanta after Grant’s success of taking Chattanooga. Burns Atlanta to the ground after laying siege. Atlanta to the sea is destroyed= total war.

Question 28

1864
Election of 1864

Answer 28

Pro-abolition republicans are frustrated that the war hasn’t ended or all the slaves aren’t freed. Northern democrats are tainted from being with the south. Lincoln forms the Union party. George McClellan is the Republican vote.

Question 29

1865
Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address

Answer 29

Soldiers support Lincoln, some support General McClellan. His main charge is that he will finish what he started. Atlanta does fall and Sherman takes it. Closer to the end. Now want to care for the wounds of the south.

Question 30

1865
Appomattox Court House

Answer 30

Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox court. Agrees to a surrender on April 9th, 1865.

Question 31

1865
Lincoln’s Assassination

Answer 31

John Wilkes Booth kills Abraham at a play, he was an actor there and knew the show. Shot him during a loud moment. Grant wasn’t there, frustrated since he wanted to take out Grant as well. Raffbone is stabbed and so traumatized by the death of the president that he kills his wife in bed.

Question 32

1865
Reasons for northern victory

Question 33

1865
African americans and the war
As controband

Question 34

1865
African americans and the war
In the army

Question 35

1865
Women and the war

Question 36

1865
Impact of the war
Economy of the north

Answer 36

Costs was around 15 billion dollars. Lives lost is 1/3 of southern men is gone. Costs severe problems. Gettysburg looses 50,000 men in three days. 1,000,000 men injured, 6,000,000 dead.

Question 37

1865
Impact of the war
2nd Industrial Revolution

Answer 37

Stimulates the 2nd industrial revolution. War materials are now being sold that the north produced during the war. Transportation, transcontinental railroad. Homestead act- 62’ giving free homesteads down to the west to improve the land increases food.
GOP and business, tied hand in hand. New Banking system. Tariffs used to protect the north.