The Civil War

Question 1

What directly caused the secession of the first seven states?

Answer 1

Lincoln’s Election

Question 2

What was the main objective of the Anaconda plan?
(Hint: Anaconda is a Snake)

Answer 2

To Block Southern ports

Question 3

Why was it a good idea for the Union to block off Southern ports?

Answer 3

To stop trade
(To stop Europe from getting income and materials)

Question 4

What (5) advantages did the North have over the South?

Answer 4

• Population
• Manufacting
• Food
• More railroads
• A Navy

Question 5

What (2) tactics did the South use to combat the North?
(What advantages did the South have over the North?)

Answer 5

• Home-Field Advantage
• Gifted Military Commanders

Question 6

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation relevent to the Civil war?

Answer 6

Changed the civil war to solely be about slavery
(To keep Britian and Frace out of it-who were more powerful)

Question 7

What did the Emancipation Proclamation really do?

Answer 7

It didn’t really free any slaves
(Lincoln was not the president of the confederate states)

Question 8

What were the Long term causes (5) of the civil war?

Answer 8

• Sectionalism
• Slavery
• Westward expansion
• The breakdown of Comprimise
• Differences in Constitutional Interpertation: States Rights

Question 9

What was the main difference between the treatment of American Slaves and English factory workers?

Answer 9

The slaves were fed, clothed, and housed
(Slave owners glorified this)

Question 10

Define Sectionalism

Answer 10

Citizens felt more loyalty towards locals then America as a whole

Question 11

Define Abolishonists

Answer 11

The citizens who wanted to end slavery

Question 12

Define Fedrick Douglass

Answer 12

Freed man who wrote speeches and books about his experience with slavery

Question 13

Define The Missouri Comprimise

1820

Answer 13

No slavery above the southern boundary of Missouri (36°30′ parallel)

• Missouri was a slave state
• Maine was a free state

Question 14

Define The Comprimise of 1850

Answer 14

1. Declared California as a free state
2. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
3. Slave sale is banned in Washington D.C.

Question 15

Define Bloody Kansas
(1855-1856)

Answer 15

Slavery and Anti-Slavery State Governments fight over the outcome of Kansas
(So bloody, the Army had to stop them)

Question 16

Define The Republican Party

Answer 16

Party who opposed the expansion of slavery to any new terriotories

Question 17

Define Dred Scott Desision

Answer 17

Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney declares Slaves as property and not citizens and do not have a right to sue

Question 18

Define Dred Scott

Answer 18

Enslaved man whose owner brought him from a slave state (Missouri) to a free state (Illinous) and denied him freedom
* He sued

Question 19

Define John Brown’s Raid

Answer 19

He tried to get abolishonists to take down the army and take their weapons
* No Slaves Joined
* He was hanged

Question 20

Define Abraham Lincoln

Answer 20

• First Republican President
• First not rich President

Question 21

Define Secession

Answer 21

Formal Withdrawl of a political entity

Question 22

Define Jefferson Davis

Answer 22

The President of The Confederate States of America

Question 23

Define The Confederate States of America

Answer 23

Pro-Slavery States nation
* The USA was split in two
* The South were the CSA

Question 24

Define Fort Sumter

Answer 24

Where the battle of Fort Sumter took place and sparked the start of the Civil War

Question 25

Define Gettysburg
(July 1863)

Answer 25

Confederates kill 50,000 troops in the battle of Gettysburg

Question 26

Define the Gettysburg address
(November 1863)

Answer 26

President Lincoln’s Speech declaring the National Gettysburg Cemetery

Question 27

Define Vicksburg

Answer 27

North recieves control over the Mississippi River Valley

Question 28

Define Popular Soverignty

Answer 28

Governments are created and sustained by the consent of its people

Question 29

Define the North

Answer 29

Anti-Slavery

Question 30

Define the South

Answer 30

Pro-Slavery

Question 31

Define Home-Field Advantage

Answer 31

Battles fought in the home of the South
(Their HOME was near the battle FIELD-North were not comfratble with the territory)

Question 32

Define Fugitive Slave Act
(Part of Comprimise of 1850)

Answer 32

Requires finders of escaped slaves to return them to their owners
(“Bloodhound Bill”)

Question 33

Know the order of the Following:
* John Brown’s raid
* Comprimise of 1850
* Kansas/Nebraska Act
* Bleeding Kansas

Answer 33

1. Comprimise of 1850
2. Kansas/Nebraska Act
3. Bleeding Kansas
4. John Brown’s raid

Question 34

Define Appromattox
(1865)

Answer 34

When the South lost the Civil War
(Lee surrendered to Grant)

Question 35

What was important about Florida in the Civil War?

Answer 35

• Got materials from Carribean
• Won Battle of Olustee: Confederates had better weapons but less troops and lost (led by General Joseph Finnegan)

Question 36

What did most Southerners think of the secession from the North?

Answer 36

• They were Pro-State Rights
• If they joined the union (Country) Voluntarily, they could leave voluntarily (To the Confederate states)

Question 37

What was the Hypocrisy on the part of the south in this war?

Answer 37

They wanted freedom of the states, but not the freedom of the slaves

Question 38

What were the major outcomes of the Civil War?

Answer 38

• Ended Slavery
• Re-affirmed the Union
• Strengthened the federal government’s power

Question 39

What were the short term causes (1) of the civil war?

Answer 39

Secession of the first 7 states