HISTORY #5

Question 1

Election of 1860

Answer 1

Presidential election that was won by:
- Republican Abraham Lincoln.
Won without electoral votes and led to secession of the Southern states

Question 2

Crittenden Compromise

Answer 2

A plan proposed by Senator John J. to protect slavery from federal interference in any state
AND
Westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the California border.

Question 3

Cornerstone Speech

Answer 3

Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens defended slavery and laid out the Confederacy’s fundamental differences from the Union. (speech)

Question 4

Jefferson Davis

Answer 4

President of the Confederacy 1861-1865

Question 4

Union

Answer 4

States and territories that didn’t withdrew from the U.S. during Civil War. Also remained under federal government’s law jurisdiction. AKA: The North.

Question 4

Confederate States of America

Answer 4

Succeeded states (1861):
South Carolina,
Mississippi,
Florida,
Alabama,
Georgia,
Louisiana,
Texas,
Virginia,
Arkansas,
Tennessee
North Carolina.

Question 5

Belligerent

Answer 5

A nation or person engaged in a war or conflict.

Question 5

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 5

President of the United States during the Civil War.

Question 5

Mobilization

Answer 5

The process of assembling troop and supplies and making them ready for war.

Question 6

Fort Sumter

Answer 6

Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, SC.
Confederate attack on the Union troops
Marked as the outbreak of hostilities in the Civil War.

Question 7

Conscription

Answer 7

Drafting citizens to the military.

Question 8

Guerilla Warfare

Answer 8

Type of warfare in which irregular troops use non-traditional types of tactics against traditionally organized enemy military forces.

Question 9

War of attrition

Answer 9

War strategy in which one side attempts to wear down the enemy to the point of collapse through losses of men and materiel.

Question 10

Total War

Answer 10

An unrestricted war; Laws of war are disregarded.

Question 11

Robert E. Lee

Answer 11

Confederate general, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 12

General of the Union Army; understood that the Union needed to push its advantage in men and materiel in order to win the war.

Question 13

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 13

Union general who was in charge of the war in the west and carried out the “March to the Sea” in which he used total war tactics.

Question 14

George McClellan

Answer 14

Union General at the beginning of war; fired by Lincoln for being overly cautious; Democratic nominee for President in 1864, defeated by Lincoln.

Question 15

Ironclad warships

Answer 15

Warships built out of iron rather than wood. First used during the Civil War.

Question 16

Anaconda Plan

Answer 16

Union war plan that called for a naval blockade of the South to cut off cotton exports, capture of the Confederate capital at Richmond, cut the Confederacy in two by controlling the Mississippi River, and driving Union armies into the heart of the South.