Textbook pages 78-86

Question 1

What strengths did the Union have?

Answer 1

2/3 of America’s population; 3/4 of factories, railroads, raw materials, and ships.

Question 2

What strengths did the Confederacy have?

Answer 2

Familiarity with fighting ground; shorter distances to send troops and supplies; the North would have to invade to defeat it.

Question 3

What did America think was a possibility?

Answer 3

For England and France to provide aid to the Confederacy since they were supplied by their cotton.

Question 4

Who seceded from the Union first?

Answer 4

South Carolina on December 20, 1860

Question 5

Confederate states by February 1861

Answer 5

Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, and South Carolina.

Question 6

President of the Confederate States of America

Answer 6

Jefferson Davis

Question 7

West Virginia formed from

Answer 7

Virginia in 1863 to enter the Union.

Question 8

Fort Sumter

Answer 8

Harbor in Charleston SC. In spring of 1861, officers requested supplies; President Lincoln sent food and supplies, but Confederate leaders saw it as an act of war.

Question 9

Conflict of Fort Sumter

Answer 9

April 12-14, 1861. Start of the Civil War.

Question 10

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 10

January, 1863. Freed slaves in the Confederate states.

Question 11

Union generals

Answer 11

Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 12

Confederate generals

Answer 12

Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 13

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 13

July 1-3, 1863; Union victory; Pickett’s Charge

Question 14

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 14

July 21, 1861 (first battle of the Civil War, Confederate victory); August 29-30, 1862

Question 15

Battle of Fredericksburg

Answer 15

December 13, 1862

Question 16

Siege of Vicksburg

Answer 16

May 19-July 4, 1863

Question 17

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

Answer 17

November 1863

Question 18

The Civil War was a turning point for what?

Answer 18

It was the first modern war - advanced communication, weapons, and transportation. It was a “total war”.

Question 19

When was the telegraph invented?

Answer 19

1840

Question 20

Summer, 1863

Answer 20

Confederate states’ resources dwindling.