Test 8-4 and 8-5

Question 1

Battle that showed both the union and the confederate soldiers needed training

Answer 1

Battle of bull run

Question 2

Once the confederates took over the ship the USS Mermack they renamed it

Answer 2

The Virginia

Question 3

The unions ironclad

Answer 3

Monitor

Question 4

Why is general Tomas Jackson called “stonewall”

Answer 4

A confederate soldier said “there is Jackson standing like a stone wall…”

Question 5

A battle where never side was a clear winner

Answer 5

Battle of Antietam

Question 6

One of the unions worst defeats

Answer 6

Battle of Fredericksburg

Question 7

What is the battle of bull run also known as

Answer 7

Battle of Manassas

Question 8

How did the emancipation proclamation change the purpose of the civil war

Answer 8

Union troops were fighting to end slavery as well as to save the union

Question 9

A battle where general grant beat back the confederates

Answer 9

Battle of Shiloh

Question 10

A battle won by general lee

Answer 10

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 11

Free

Answer 11

Emancipate

Question 12

Why did Lincoln emancipate the slaves

Answer 12

He believed he could only save the union by broadening the goal of the war

Question 13

A preliminary proclamation addressed by Lincoln

Answer 13

Emancipation proclamation

Question 14

One of the most famous African American units in the union army

Answer 14

54th Massachusetts regiment

Question 15

A fort attacked by the 54th Massachusetts regiment near Charleston Virginia

Answer 15

Fort Wagner

Question 16

How did disease affect civil war troops

Answer 16

It had killed more men then guns and cannons did

Question 17

Northerners who opposed to use force to keep south in the union

Answer 17

Copperheads

Question 18

Required all able-bodied men 20-45 to serve in the military

Answer 18

Draft

Question 19

How did the civil war strengthen the norths economy

Answer 19

There were greater needs for machines and goods

Question 20

Tax on people’s earnings

Answer 20

Income tax

Question 21

The right to be charged or have a hearing before being jailed

Answer 21

Habeas corpus

Question 22

Manufacturers who made fortunes by profiteering

Answer 22

Profiteers

Question 23

How were draft problems in the south between those in the north? Why was the war called a rich mans war and a poor mans fight

Answer 23

North
- shortage of volunteers - congress passed draft - men could get out by paying $300 - caused war to be called rich mans war and poor mans fight
South
- people believed in states rights & wouldn’t pay taxes - only men who had 20 slaves or more could get out of it - let enslaved African Americans fight in war

Question 24

What happened when Jefferson Davis tried to use economic pressure to force Britain to side with the south

Answer 24

The tactic backfired. Britain bought more cotton from Egypt and India, Davis succeeded only in cutting the south income.