Civil War Summitive

Question 1

North/south resources

Answer 1

North: lots of factories, self reliant on products and food
South: had lots of plantations, imported lots of other needs

Question 2

Where did war begin?

Answer 2

Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC

Question 3

Martial law

Answer 3

Where army takes over and makes the rules

Question 4

Single bloodiest battle

Answer 4

Battle of Antietam

Question 5

North/South strategy

Answer 5

North: mostly waited for south to come at them, put in place the anaconda plan to barricade them, take over the Mississippi River, make it better army
South: Full force into battle, and try to get other countries on their side

Question 6

Civil war diseases

Answer 6

Infection, typhoid, pneumonia, measles, tuberculosis, malaria

Question 7

Civil war deaths

Answer 7

North: 365,000
South: 259,000
Total: 624,000 dead

Question 8

Union/confederate leaders

Answer 8

C: Robert E. Lee
U: ulysses S Grant (main general after swapping around)

Question 9

Total war

Answer 9

Destroys everything in path. “Sherman’s March to the sea”

Question 10

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 10

Lincoln says all slaves areas of rebellion are free. However you cannot technically free the slaves because they are in another country. He did this just so that England and France would move farther from the south

Question 11

Medical care

Answer 11

There was not much medical care at the time, because there were so many deceased. If you were shot, you would most likely have that part of your body amputated. With or without it, you could get infection and die. That’s what happens most often

Question 12

Civil war prisons

Answer 12

Brutal, abusive. Biggest was in the south with northern soliders

Question 13

African Americans of the war

Answer 13

Could fight with the north if they were escaped slaves. Could fight with south for chance of freedom. free blacks often fought in their own regiments

Question 14

Why was civil war fought?

Answer 14

Keep Union together

Question 15

Lincolns view on slavery

Answer 15

Moral, political, and social wrong. However not abolitionist

Question 16

North vs south war strategies

Answer 16

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Question 17

Lincolns strategy on Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 17

Wanted to get England and France to back off of the South even more than they already were. He knew it is the two countries joined the south, the north would lose the war

Question 18

Why was there no compromise of 1860

Answer 18

I think it is because the South knew they lost, and the north truly had a ruling over the south at that time. They’re already caused enough trouble by leaving the Union in the first place

Question 19

Union goals

Answer 19

To keep the union together