Flashcards 2

Question 1

What was the reality of the war?

Answer 1

• extremely bloody conflict
• initially people enlist, expecting quick and glorious war to be easily won
• both sides end up resorting to a draft to get soldiers to enlist

Question 2

How many white 16-45 men served in the South?

Answer 2

80%

Question 3

How many African Americans make up the Union Army?

Answer 3

10%

Question 4

Why would this be deemed the first modern war? (5)

Answer 4

• propaganda effort to mobilise public opinion (pamphlets, songs, photography)
• conflict with weapons created by industrial revolution (guns longer range and more accurate)
• civilians will be targeted not just soldiers
• first major conflict where railroads transported troops and supplies
• use of the telegraph, observation balloons, primitive submarines

Question 5

How is the number of deaths in the Civil War described?

Answer 5

number of deaths nearly equals total number of Americans who died in all the nations other wars

Question 6

What diseases were killing soldiers?

Answer 6

Measles, malaria, typhus

medical knowledge lagging far behind the knowledge of weapons manufacturing

Question 7

Why did Lincoln’s views on slavery change? Why was he apprehensive about this change?

Answer 7

• wanted to preserve the Union but realised that slavery so entrenched in South the two couldn’t co-exist
• military essential to keep border states so Lincoln is reluctant to support emancipation bc scared the border slave states will also secede

Question 8

Why could more slaves escape?

Answer 8

More Southern white men left communities/white women/elderly and their slaves behind so easier for them to escape

Question 9

What does General Benjamin Butler do?

Answer 9

he uses slaves who ran away to his fort stating they were fugitives to their advantage
known as contraband (enemy property rightfully seized as an act of war

Question 10

How many contrabands were behind union lines?

Answer 10

1863 33,000

Question 11

How many of the contraband are women?

Answer 11

45%

Question 12

When is the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 12

Sep 22nd 1862

Question 13

What was the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 13

Lincoln said unless the South laid arms by the end of 1862 he would emancipate slaves in the Confederacy

Question 14

When was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 14

Jan 1st 1863

Question 15

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 15

• applied only to areas under confederate control
• ## frees the slaves he doesn’t actually control, slaves in slave states that didn’t secede are not emancipated

Question 16

Why did the Emancipation Proclamation reshape the war?

Answer 16

Union army began practicing hard war

• as they entered the South they would free slaves they’d come across
• led to widespread use of Black soldiers in the Union Army

Question 17

How many Black commissioned officers were there?

Answer 17

nearly 80

Question 18

By the war’s end, how many Black soldiers had been awarded the Medal of Honour for their valour?

Answer 18

16

Question 19

How did black soldier’s service in the war work to change the debate over equality, citizenship and suffrage?

Answer 19

• refused to accept unequal pay
• helped shift northern public opinion about race
• military service is often equated with duty of citizenship, so make claims about their rights