civil war study guide continued Flashcards
(telegraph) allowed almost instantaneous
communication over great distances
(telegraph) union army had over …mi of insulated…
6000; copper wire
(telegraph) U.S> Military Telegraph Corps trained over a … telegraph operators and sent more than …. messages to and from battlefields across the country in 1862
thousand; million
(telegraph) Abraham Lincoln used the telegraph office regularly and…., which was something that was never done before in wartime
communicated with commanders in the field
(telegraph) confederacy lacked …. to string wire for the telegraphs
industrial ability
(ironclads) first two ironclads:
confederate merrimack and Union Monitor
(ironclads) wooden fleets made
obsolete
(ironclads) monitor and merrimack fought for … hours, but neither was able to sink the other because of the …
three; iron siding
(ironclads) ironclads dominated …. of the Civil War
naval operations
(ironclads) played crucial role in Union effort to open the …, which cut the confederacy in …
mississippi river; half
(ironclads) stronger than
wooden ships
(ironclads) when union found out that confederates were trying to build an ironclad, the secretary of the navy feared that it would …. and also go up to … and ….
disrupt the blockade; Washington; shoot down White House
(ironclads) Secretary of Navy had Union ironclad built by
john Ericsson
(weapons) rifles became more
accurate
(weapons) cannons became
larger
(weapons) rifles had an effective range of up to … in Civil War compared to old range of …
400 yds; 80 yds
(weapons)…. became a more desperate proposition
well entrenched position
(weapons) repeating rifle:
spencer carbine
(weapons) spencer carbien could fire… in … seconds
seven shots; thirty seconds
(weapons) north enjoyed most of the technological advances in the war because of its
greater industrial capacity
(weapons) military casualties because military tactics weren’t
caught up with military tehnology
(railroads) north had an
advantage
(railroads) …mi of track in northern states
22,000
(railroads) …mi of track in south
9,000
(railroads) north had almost all of .. and …
track; locomotive factories
(railroads) union armies targeted cities like Corinth, Chattanooga, and Atlanta because they were
important Southern railroad junctions
(railroads) armies tried to wreck railroads to
sabotage the enemy
(railroads) because railroads allowed for the transportation of men and supplies over great distances and at a speed never before seen in war, they became….
central to the strategic thinking of both armies
(emancipation proclamation) lincoln allowed the states to return to the U.S. before he emancipated the slaves because he
wants to end the war and extend peace
(battle of gettysburg-reasons that lee invaded PA) disrupt union’s ability to
attack confederate capital
(battle of gettysburg-reasons that lee invaded PA) draw union away from ….. of washington d.c. and fight them in the …
safety of defenses; open
(battle of gettysburg-reasons that lee invaded PA) take war away from … who were struggling with their … since the armies were …
farmers in VA; crops; fighting and camping on their land
(battle of gettysburg-reasons that lee invaded PA) live of .. and collect … to take back to VA
land; supplies
(battle of gettysburg-reasons that lee invaded PA) win decisive victory on northern soil in hopes of
ending war
(battle of gettysburg) lee and army
retreated back to VA
(battle of gettysburg) never again would confederates invade a
northern state in large numbers
(battle of gettysburg) increased … for Union
morale
(battle of gettysburg) decreased … for confederacy
morale
(battle of gettysburg) confederacy mainly fought on … for the rest of the war
defense
(battle of gettysburg) the nation makes sure that free governments shall not perish from the earth by
honoring the dead and increasing devotion
(battle of gettysburg) lincoln believed that U.S. soldiers were fighting the Civil War for
liberty and equality
(battle of gettysburg) the phrase “…government of the people, by the people, for the people” references
government by consent and democratic ideals
(battle of gettysburg) most of the confederate dead were left on field in … until southern charity groups had the bodies…
shallow graves; taken to cemeteries
(battle of gettysburg) … established at gettysburg for union dead
soldiers’ national cemetery