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Northern advantages during civil war

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Twice population
80% of all industry
An organized and established government

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Southern advantages during the civil war

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Superior military leadership
Fighting on their home land
Fighting for a cause they believed in
Fighting a defensive war

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Types of income for the north

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Many different types - businesses, factories, agricultures

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Types of income for the south

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Predominantly agriculture

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Literacy rate for the north

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90%

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Literacy rate for the south

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50%

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Northern thoughts about technology

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Favored it - always wanted to become more advanced

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Southern views on technology

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Against it - wanted things to remain the way they were

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Northern attitude towards the south

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Felt the south was backwards and immoral

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Southern attitude towards the north

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Felt that the north was was always picking on them

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Where did Jefferson Davis graduate from

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West Point

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Who married Zachary Taylor’s daughter

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Jefferson Davis

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Who reorganized the army and brought in new infantry tactics and weapons

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Jefferson Davis

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What year was Davis elected to the senate and what did he do within this year

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1857
Opposed the Freeport doctrine and Douglass running for president
Defended states rights and slavery in the territories

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What year did Lincoln become president

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1860

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Who was thrown in jail for treason by a grand jury but never stood a trial

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Jefferson Davis

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What year did Jefferson Davis die

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1889

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What were Lincoln’s experiences in politics

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Illinois legislature
U.S. Representative
Lawyer

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Where was Abraham Lincoln born?

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Kentucky

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Who was the most powerful president up to that time

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Lincoln

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Who was considered the best president in history

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Lincoln

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Who did Robert E. Lee marry

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Mary custis

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Who was the considered the perfect southern gentlemen and why

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Lee because he did not smoke, drink or use profane language

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Where did lee graduate

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West Point

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What was lees role in the army at first
An engineer
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What year to Lee die
1870
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Who was admired for his excellent decisions and bravery in the Mexican war
Lee
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Who was the superintendent for West Point for three years
Lee
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Who was the commander of the Virginia militia
Robert E. Lee
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Who captured John brown at harpers ferry Virginia
Lee
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Who lost his citizenship and soon gained it back five years later
Lee
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Who was named the president of Washington university in Lexington Virginia
Lee
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Where lee and his family are buried, what is the chapel called
The shrine of the south
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What was Ulysses S. Grants actual name
Hiram Ulysses Grant
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What was grants POV about West Point
He was appointed there and hated the discipline and graduated towards the bottom of his class
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What was grants personality
He liked to use profane language, drink and smoke
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Who won praise for his bravery under the Mexican war
Grant
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Who did Grant marry
Julia Dent
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What did Julia Dent look like
She was cross eyed (this was known as a thing of beauty)
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Who invested his entire life savings into a banking firm that his son was apart of
Grant
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What year did grant die
1885
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What gave Grants family $500,000
His memoirs he wrote about the civil war
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Who was an engineer during the civil war
Lee
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Who surrendered his army at Appomattox
Lee
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Who was the hero of the lost cause
Lee
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Who was the president of the Washington college
Lee
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What was grants campaign slogan
Let us have peace
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Who stopped John brown at harpers ferry
Lee
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Who was superintendent of the military academy
Lee
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Who did lee serve under in the Mexican war
Gen. Winfield Scott
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Who did grant serve under in the Mexican war
Gen. Zachary Taylor
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Who was asked by Lincoln to be the union general
Lee
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Who was the commander of the 21st Illinois infantry
Grant
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Who captured fort donelson
Grant
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Who preached submission to authority
Lee
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What was the biggest advantage for the south
Confederate generals
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What did the confederate generals provide
A source lf consistency and strength
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Who was the commander of the army of Virginia
Robert e lee
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Who was known as lees right arm man
Thomas stonewall Jackson
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Who was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own men
Stonewall Jackson
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What is friendly fire
Getting shot accidentally by the same side
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What is gorilla war fare
Fighting unfair
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Who was in charge of lees cavalry
James ewell brown Stuart
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Where was brown killed
Spotsylvania
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Who was in charge of lees artillery
James Longstreet
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Why was Longstreet considered a traitor
He joined the Republican Party
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Who led hit and run attacks with about 100 men
John mosby
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Who did Anderson teach
Beaugard
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Who betrayed Anderson and beat him in battle using his own tactics
Beaugard
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What was the union fort at
South Carolina
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Once the confederacy had been formed what struggle came up
Getting supplies to Sumter
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What started the war
South attacks the fort and he war began
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What final four states seceded
Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina
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What was the unions three part strategy
A) blockade all southern ports B) take control of the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers - divide the south C) take Richmond as soon as possible
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What was the Union army called
Army of Potomac
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What general won a series of small battles in Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
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Who was promoted to major general
Grant
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What was the battle of Shiloh also known as
Bloody Shiloh
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What was Shiloh
A church on the Tennessee river
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What was the north causality for the battle of Shiloh
13,700
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What was the south casualties for the battle is Shiloh
10,700
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Who was the union commander
David Farragut
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Who captured Yorktown and Williamsburg
McClellan
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What is known as Stuart's ride
When lee sent Stuart and the cavalry around to attack McClellan from the rear
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What were the casualties for the north during the seven days battle
16,500
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What were the casualties for the south during the seven days battle
20,000
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Who lost to the seven days battle
Union
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Who replaced McClellan
John Pope
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What was the first submarine ever to sink a ship
H.L. Hunley
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Which ship was the first to use exploding shells
C.S.S. Merrimack
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What submarine did they use to sink the U.S.S. Housatonic
H.L. Hunley
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What was the only problem about the Hunley
The pole that held the TNT was not long enough and scattered the Hunley all over the charleston harbor
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What were the casualties for the 2nd battle of bull run
North - 14,500 | South - 9,500
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Who replaced Pope
McClellan
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Why did Lee want to invade the north during the battle of Antietam
A) to get the fighting out of Virginia B) he wanted to get money support from Europe C) he also hoped to capture Maryland so he could surround Washington, D.C.
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What did Lee send his war plans in to Jackson (they never reached him because the messenger lost the plans)
Wrapped in three cigars
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Who found lees plans
McClellan - used them against him
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What did McClellan do when he found Lees plans
Cornered him at Antietam creek
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FUN FACTS what battle was the 12 bloodiest hours in history? Twice as many men died at the battle of Antietam than what wars? What were the casualties
1) battle of Antietam 2) war of 1812, Mexican war, Spanish-American war COMBINED 3) D-day
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What were the top union generals
``` McDowell McClellan Pope McClellan Burnside Hooker Meade Grant ```
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What were the results of the battle at Antietam
A) south gets no help from Europe B) Lincoln decides to write the emancipation proclamation C) McClellan is fired and replaced by Ambrose burnside
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What is a pontoon bridge
A bridge supported by barrels with a flat pei e on top
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Why did Burnside need the bridge
To cross the rappahonnick river to attack Lee from behind
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Who replaced burnside
Hooker
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What was hooker known as
"Fighting joe"
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When did Lincoln issue the emancipation proclamation
January first
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What did the emancipation proclamation state
That all slaves in the confederate states were free

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