Know And Understand

Question 1

Strengths of CSA

Answer 1

Military leadership
Will to fight
Could fight a defensive war

Question 2

Weaknesses of USA

Answer 2

Military leadership

Don’t know southern land

Question 3

Weaknesses of CSA

Answer 3

Geography
Economy
Food
Transportation

Question 4

Anaconda plan (steps by USA)

Answer 4

• Surround the south (with ship blockade)
• split the south in 2 (along the Mississippi)
• attack Richmond (the South’s Capitol)

Question 5

Confederate strategies

Answer 5

• make north fight in the south
• tire the north out
• hope Europe will come aid them

Question 6

Women’s roles in the Civil War

Answer 6

Spies, messengers, scouts, nurses

They also worked in factories/farms

Question 7

The emancipation proclamation

Answer 7

This was issued after the battle of Antietam. There were AA soldiers, and it changed the war’s objective to ending slavery. Even though Lincoln had no power to enforce this, it boosted troop’s morale and made Europe not help the CSA

Question 8

Gettysburg address

Answer 8

He dedicated the Cemetery at Gettysburg

Question 9

African Americans (dangers they faced and impact)

Answer 9

The African Americans didn’t just face getting killed in war, they also faced getting sold back into slavery
The African Americans gained respect bye fighting for their country that managed to free them from slavery

Question 10

Life during the civil war (rich man’s war, poor man’s fight/draft riots)

Answer 10

That means that the rich men were able to get out of being drafted into the army for their war, but the poor had to fight

Draft riots happened commonly because of this unfair policy (the most famous one was in New York)

Question 11

Election of 1864 (candidates, parties, 2nd inaugural address)

Answer 11

Lincoln (republican) vs. McClellan (Northern democrat)

Lincoln won because of Sheridan and Sherman’s victories, and he talked about letting the South back to the union peacefully in his 2nd inaugural address

Question 12

Grant’s terms of surrender

Answer 12

At the village of Appomattox Courthouse

• soldiers could go home
• officers could keep their weapons
• the South’s army is sent food

Question 13

Lincoln’s assassination

Answer 13

Was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth (a famous actor at the time) at Ford’s theather while watching a play

Question 14

Strengths of the USA

Answer 14

Geography
Money
Technology
Food
Transportation