Civil War

Question 1

What did the Compromise of 1850 state?

Answer 1

1. Split the Mexican Cession into separate territories
2. Texas gives up claim to parts of New Mexico for $10 million
3. California enters US as free state
4. Slave trade ends in Washington DC
5. Fugitive Slave Act (angered abolitionists the most)

Question 2

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people to do?

Answer 2

• Required all citizens to capture and return runaway slaves to the South
• Made abolitionists angry

Question 3

What was decided with the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Why was this upsetting to some people?

Answer 3

• Stephan Douglas proposed law
• Wanted people to be able to vote for slavery or free in territories
• This was called popular sovereignty
• people upset because areas were already suppose to be free under Missouri Compromise

Question 4

What happened during Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 4

Fighting between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups

Question 5

What impact did the Dred Scott Decision have on the US?

Answer 5

• Slaves were property, not citizens and could not sue for their freedom
• Slavery was allowed everywhere, no longer free states

Question 6

How did the Lincoln-Douglas debates help Abraham Lincoln gain popularity?

Answer 6

• What Lincoln said was published in newspapers and pamphlets and sent around to different Northern States.
• Lincoln stated the country can not survive half free half slave

Question 7

Why were people frightened by John Brown’s Raid?

Answer 7

Southern states were worried the North wanted to destroy their way of life

Question 8

Why was Abraham Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?

Answer 8

The Southern states split their votes between three different candidates

Question 9

What did Southern states decide as a result of the election of 1860? Why?

Answer 9

• Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate states of America
• Worried Lincoln would abolish slavery even though he never said he would
• Lincoln point of view was for slavery to not spread to the west but stay where it already was

Question 10

List the border states.

Answer 10

• ## Border states remained part of the Union even though they had slavery

Question 11

Who became President of the Confederate States?

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

What was the goal of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Answer 12

Keep their way of life and maintain independence

Question 13

What was the goal of the Union during the Civil War?

Answer 13

Preserve the Union, keep the country together

Question 14

Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the Union and the Confederacy.

Answer 14

Union - Industrialized- can make what they need, More money, More people, Navy

Confederacy - Home field advantage- know the land, Best military generals, Fighting for their way of life

Question 15

What event caused the outbreak of the Civil War?

Answer 15

Confederate army fired on Fort Sumter

Question 16

What were the parts of the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 16

• Blockade
• Capture the Mississippi River to cut the South in half
• Capture Richmond, VA, the capital

Question 17

Who were the major military leaders of the Union and Confederacy?

Answer 17

Union: Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, George Custer

Confederacy: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, George Pickett

One strategy the North was to cut off the South from trade by using a blockade

Question 18

What is the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 18

Turning point of the war

Question 19

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 19

slaves in states that had seceded were free

Question 20

What is Total War?

Answer 20

• Sherman’s policy of destroying everything in order to make the Confederacy surrender
• Purpose to show the South what would happen if they did not surrender

Question 21

Why was the Union able to win the Civil War?

Answer 21

Total War- everything is destroyed

Union had more people and more resources

Question 22

When and where did the Civil War end?

Answer 22

April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia - Lee surrenders to Grant

Question 23

What impact did the Civil War have on the Southern states?

Answer 23

• Confederate states rejoin the Union
• Have to rebuild their communities and find a way to live without slaves