Civil War

Question 1

What new technique was developed that increase the range of Civil War era guns

Answer 1

Rifles

Question 2

What was the name of the general who led many failures at the beginning of the Civil War

Answer 2

George McClellan

Question 3

Why are there so many casualties during the Civil War

Answer 3

Outdated tactics

Question 4

Enslaved African-Americans tried to hamper in the confederate war effort by…

Answer 4

Refusing to work, providing military information to Union troops, and damaging farm equipment

Question 5

What was the cause of the unintended preparation for the Civil War

Answer 5

The Industrial Revolution

Question 6

Why did the Emancipation Proclamation and the South’s hope that Breton would recognize it as an independent nation

Answer 6

Britain would not help a country that was fighting to maintain slavery

Question 7

What advantage does the north have

Answer 7

The north could field and transport a larger army further

Question 8

Why did Lincoln declare martial law in Maryland and not in Kentucky

Answer 8

Maryland sympathizers destroyed Danes Kentucky didn’t

Question 9

What was the material that was used in the making of a uniform of the Civil War soldier

Answer 9

Wool

Question 10

What did a white shirt signify during the Civil War era

Answer 10

Wealth

Question 11

What would a Civil War soldier have considered clean

Answer 11

A dry shirt

Question 12

Why would a Civil War soldier need a haversack

Answer 12

He didn’t have enough pockets

Question 13

What was a housewife

Answer 13

A sewing kit

Question 14

Why would a Civil War soldier need a buddy during the war

Answer 14

Allowed them to carry less equipment

Question 15

What does the term border state referred to in this chapter

Answer 15

Slave states that didn’t secede

Question 16

Why were some abolisionists unhappy with the emancipation proclamation

Answer 16

It did not apply to the entire country

Question 17

At the beginning of the Civil War

Answer 17

African-American troops were not allowed to join the union army

Question 18

What extra danger did African-American soldiers face in the Civil War

Answer 18

If they were captured they might be returned to slavery

Question 19

Which event happen last

Answer 19

Virginia & North Carolina secede

Question 20

How many shots could a Civil War soldier fire in a minute

Answer 20

Three

Question 21

Ibrahim Lincoln won the 1860 election for president because

Answer 21

The Democratic Party was split

Question 22

Why did President Lincoln choose not to defend fort sumter with additional troops

Answer 22

Lincoln did not want to show force by the US military to cause other states to secede

Question 23

The president of the Confederate states of America was

Answer 23

Jefferson Davis

Question 24

Why did South Carolina seceded from the union in 1860

Answer 24

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president people in the state believe that the United States government was working against the states interest

Question 25

Which southern leader opposed secession

Answer 25

Texas governor Sam Houston

Question 26

Henry Clay’s Missouri compromise allowed Missouri to come in as a slave state and _______ to come in as a free state

Answer 26

Maine

Question 27

The process of allowing people of the state or territory to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery was called

Answer 27

Popular sovereignty

Question 28

The Wilmot proviso, A proposal that slavery be banned in all territory gained from Mexico

Answer 28

Never became law but alarmed people in the south

Question 29

Keeping slavery out of the western territories was the main cause of

Answer 29

The free soil party

Question 30

How many people died in the Civil War

Answer 30

Over 620,000

Question 31

What states were border states

Answer 31

Missouri
Kentucky
Maryland
Delaware

Question 32

The most famous battle on Fort Wagner in South Carolina was fought by the African Americans in the _______

Answer 32

54th Massachusetts Infantry

Question 33

What were Northern Democrats who opposed the war in the emancipation proclamation

Answer 33

They were called copperheads

Question 34

To pay the cost of war congress created the first

Answer 34

Income tax

Question 35

Paper money being put into circulation of the con of me after the federal government printed more

Answer 35

Cause inflation

Question 36

The southern inflation caused

Answer 36

More than 1000 woman to loot shops for food clothes and shoes

Question 37

What was a woman’s role in the Civil War

Answer 37

Some disguise themselves as men enjoying the armies

Others took over businesses farms and plantations

Some head factory jobs and government jobs

Others were nurses and social reformers

Question 38

Who was Clara Barton

Answer 38

Clara became a nurse in the Civil War and her and her the nickname of the angel of the battlefield

After the war she works for a time with the international Red Cross and set up an American branch of the company

Question 39

Joseph hooker was in the battle of

Answer 39

Chancellorsville

Question 40

George Meade was in

Answer 40

Gettysburg

Question 41

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Answer 41

In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln looked ahead to final Union victory

Question 42

Why was the battle between the monitor and Merrimack important

Answer 42

Every wooden navy became obsolete