Module 18 slides Lesson 1-5

Question 1

What did many of the Confederate states start seizing?

Answer 1

Federal-mint branches, arsenals, and military posts

Question 2

Where was the federal outpost Fort Sumter located?

Answer 2

Charleston, South Carolina

Question 3

At Fort Sumter who did not want to stop fighting?

Answer 3

Abraham Lincoln U.S.

Question 4

Who was the Battle at Fort Sumter between?

Answer 4

The Confederate States of America & America

Question 5

What war started the Civil War?

Answer 5

Fort Sumter

Question 6

Lincoln declared the South was in rebellion and asked state governors for 75,000 militiamen; Which states?

Answer 6

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and states north of them rallied

Question 7

What other states during the fight at Fort Sumter joined the Confederacy?

Answer 7

Slave states of the Upper South—North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas—seceded.

Question 8

What states were border states?

Answer 8

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri

Question 9

Where border states slave states or free states?

Answer 9

Slave states

Question 10

What state supported the Union and set up its own state government?

Answer 10

West Virginia

Question 11

What did West Virginia do in 1863?

Answer 11

Supported the Union and set up its own state government

Question 12

Was West Virginia with the United States or the Confederacy in 1863 when it set up its own government?

Answer 12

it was part of the union

Question 13

What was General Winfield Scott’s plan to fight against the Confederacy?

Answer 13

planned to blockade southern ports and to capture Mississippi River to divide the South.

Question 14

What were some of the Norths resources?

Answer 14

-Population of 22 million

-Some 22,000 miles of railroad track

-More developed economy, banking system, and currency

Question 15

What did the Confederate States have, or the south have that was better than the north or the U.S.?

Answer 15

Strong army

Advantages of fighting on home soil

Question 16

What was the South or the Confederate States strategy to fight against the North or the U.S.?

Answer 16

Strategy—tried to win foreign allies through cotton diplomacy: idea that Britain would support Confederacy because it needed the South’s cotton.

Question 17

What are some ways civilians helped the people serving in the army?

Answer 17

-Raised money
-Ran hospitals
-Served as nurses
-Sent supplies to troops

Question 18

What shortages did both armies in the civil war face?

Answer 18

Shortages of:
-Clothing
-Food
-Weapons.

Question 19

What military basics did volunteers have to learn?

Answer 19

-Marching
-Shooting
-Using bayonets.

Question 20

Did a lot of people want to fight in the Civil War?

Answer 20

Thousands of men joined the armies.

Question 21

Who were going to fight in the Civil War?

Answer 21

Volunteers

Question 22

What did the Battle of Antietam gave who a slight advantage?

Answer 22

North

Question 23

Where is Antietam(state)?

Answer 23

Maryland

Question 24

Since the Union controlled the sea what did the Union do?

Answer 24

Blockaded southern ports.

Question 25

Why was it bad for the South that the North was blockading there ports?

Answer 25

because the South was prevented from selling and receiving goods.

Question 26

What kind of ships could get the through the Unions blockades?

Answer 26

Some small, fast ships got through blockades

Question 27

Who created ironclads?

Answer 27

The Confederacy

Question 28

What ship did the Confederacy capture and create it into a ironclad? What did they rename it?

Answer 28

Merrimack
renamed it the Virginia

Question 29

What ship of the Union made the Confederates to withdraw?
Where was the battle at?

Answer 29

The Monitor
Hampton Road, Virginia

Question 30

About the Union ship The Monitor….

Answer 30

-Designed by John Ericsson
-Had a revolving gun tower and thick plating