Final Exam Review Part 4

Question 1

kind of rule somtimes established in parts of Texas that were Unionist

Answer 1

martial law

Question 2

Texas who was the second-highest-ranking officer in the Confederate army until he was killed in battle

Answer 2

Albert Sydney Johnston

Question 3

to formally withdraw

Answer 3

secede

Question 4

the belief that state power is greater than federal power

Answer 4

states’ rights

Question 5

decreed that slaves were free in areas that were rebelling against the United States

Answer 5

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 6

where General Taylor’s men turned back a larger Union army in 1864

Answer 6

Red River Campaign

Question 7

small all Irish force guarding Sabine Pass for the Confederacy

Answer 7

Davis Guards

Question 8

supremacy

Answer 8

sovereignty

Question 9

steamboats converted to gunboats, with cotton bales for protection

Answer 9

cottonclads

Question 10

Sherman’s fierce drive through the South

Answer 10

March to the sea

Question 11

Confederate general who attempted to seize control of the Southwest in 1861

Answer 11

Henry H Sibley

Question 12

law that was unpopular because some people received exemptions

Answer 12

draft

Question 13

units of about 1,000 soldiers

Answer 13

regiments

Question 14

commander of the Confederate artillery at the Battle of Sabine Pass

Answer 14

Richard Dowling

Question 15

commander who successfully defended Laredo from Union forces

Answer 15

Santos Benavides

Question 16

ships heavily armed in metal

Answer 16

ironclads

Question 17

government of the succeeding states

Answer 17

Confederate States of America

Question 18

allowed two new states to decide whether they would be slave or free states

Answer 18

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 19

the strategy of withholding cotton shipments to England, hoping to force her to help the Confederacy

Answer 19

cotton diplomacy

Question 20

Supreme Court decision that ruled that slaves were not US citizens

Answer 20

Dred Scott Decision