The Civil War Flashcards

(39 cards)

1
Q

What directly caused the secession of the first seven states?

A

Lincoln’s Election

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2
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What was the main objective of the Anaconda plan?
(Hint: Anaconda is a Snake)

A

To Block Southern ports

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3
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Why was it a good idea for the Union to block off Southern ports?

A

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

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4
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What (5) advantages did the North have over the South?

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  • Population
  • Manufacting
  • Food
  • More railroads
  • A Navy
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5
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What (2) tactics did the South use to combat the North?
(What advantages did the South have over the North?)

A
  • Home-Field Advantage
  • Gifted Military Commanders
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6
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Why was the Emancipation Proclamation relevent to the Civil war?

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

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7
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What did the Emancipation Proclamation really do?

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

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8
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What were the Long term causes (5) of the civil war?

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  • Sectionalism
  • Slavery
  • Westward expansion
  • The breakdown of Comprimise
  • Differences in Constitutional Interpertation: States Rights
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What was the main difference between the treatment of American Slaves and English factory workers?

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

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10
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Define Sectionalism

A

Citizens felt more loyalty towards locals then America as a whole

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11
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Define Abolishonists

A

The citizens who wanted to end slavery

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12
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Define Fedrick Douglass

A

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

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13
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Define The Missouri Comprimise

1820

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

  • Missouri was a slave state
  • Maine was a free state
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Define The Comprimise of 1850

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  1. Declared California as a free state
  2. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
  3. Slave sale is banned in Washington D.C.
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15
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Define Bloody Kansas
(1855-1856)

A

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

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16
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Define The Republican Party

A

Party who opposed the expansion of slavery to any new terriotories

17
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Define Dred Scott Desision

A

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

18
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Define Dred Scott

A

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

19
Q

Define John Brown’s Raid

A

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

20
Q

Define Abraham Lincoln

A
  • First Republican President
  • First not rich President
21
Q

Define Secession

A

Formal Withdrawl of a political entity

22
Q

Define Jefferson Davis

A

The President of The Confederate States of America

23
Q

Define The Confederate States of America

A

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

24
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Define Fort Sumter

A

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

25
Define Gettysburg (July 1863)
Confederates kill 50,000 troops in the battle of Gettysburg
26
Define the Gettysburg address (November 1863)
President Lincoln's Speech declaring the National Gettysburg Cemetery
27
Define Vicksburg
North recieves control over the Mississippi River Valley
28
Define Popular Soverignty
Governments are created and sustained by the consent of its people
29
Define the North
Anti-Slavery
30
Define the South
Pro-Slavery
31
Define Home-Field Advantage
Battles fought in the home of the South (Their HOME was near the battle FIELD-North were not comfratble with the territory)
32
Define Fugitive Slave Act (Part of Comprimise of 1850)
Requires finders of escaped slaves to return them to their owners ("Bloodhound Bill")
33
Know the order of the Following: * John Brown's raid * Comprimise of 1850 * Kansas/Nebraska Act * Bleeding Kansas
1. Comprimise of 1850 2. Kansas/Nebraska Act 3. Bleeding Kansas 4. John Brown's raid
34
Define Appromattox (1865)
When the South lost the Civil War (Lee surrendered to Grant)
35
What was important about Florida in the Civil War?
* Got materials from Carribean * Won Battle of Olustee: Confederates had better weapons but less troops and lost (led by General Joseph Finnegan)
36
What did most Southerners think of the secession from the North?
* They were Pro-State Rights * If they joined the union (Country) Voluntarily, they could leave voluntarily (To the Confederate states)
37
What was the Hypocrisy on the part of the south in this war?
They wanted freedom of the states, but not the freedom of the slaves
38
What were the major outcomes of the Civil War?
* Ended Slavery * Re-affirmed the Union * Strengthened the federal government's power
39
What were the short term causes (1) of the civil war?
Secession of the first 7 states