The Civil War

Question 1

What was the turning point battle of the civil war?

Answer 1

Gettysburg

Question 2

What was the final battle of the civil war?

Answer 2

Petersburg

Question 3

What is the first state to secede from the Union?

Answer 3

South Carolina. Six states follow it

Question 4

What is a lame duck president?

Answer 4

When a new president is elected while the current one is still in office. This happens with Buchanen and Lincoln.

Question 5

What Slavs states didn’t join the confederates?

Answer 5

Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia was made a state because it separated from Virginia.

Question 6

Why did the south think they’d win?

Answer 6

They had cotton, which they could sell to Britain and get weapons in return

Question 7

Why does the north believe the war is going to go fast?

Answer 7

Lincoln gets Robert E. Lee to command Union military, but lee hoes to the confederate side instead

Question 8

What is the Anaconda Plan?

Answer 8

This was the north’s strategy to defeat the south, and consisted of three parts.
1-blockade the southern ports
2-take the Mississippi River
3-capture the southern capital, Richmond, Virginia

Question 9

What is the bloodiest battle in American history?

Answer 9

Antietum. Over 10,000 Americans died. Even with the union having the confederates war plans, the confederates still won

Question 10

What was the first battle of the civil war?

Answer 10

Ft. Sumter. This was the fort that guarded the harbor of Charleston. The confederates attacked it

Question 11

What are the union advantages?

Answer 11

• transportation
• more financial resources
• much more diverse economy, which means there’s more ways to make money
• bigger population: 22 million

Question 12

What were some confederate advantages?

Answer 12

• superior military leadership (Robert E. Lee)

- defending their own soil

Question 13

Why was there a riot in New York City?

Answer 13

There were really unfair military drafts in the north. This led to draft riots, the biggest one being in NYC

Question 14

Why were there riots in the south?

Answer 14

The south’s food supply was cut off, which leads to food riots, mostly led by women

Question 15

What does the 13th amendment do?

Answer 15

It ended slavery, and was passed after the civil war.

Question 16

What does the 14th amendment do?

Answer 16

It makes freed blacks citizens of the U.S.

Question 17

What does the 15th amendment do?

Answer 17

It gave black men the right to vote

Question 18

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 18

• this said that slavery was outlawed in states against the union
• Lincoln did this to cripple the south ( Britain was against slavery, so wouldn’t help out the south )
• also did it to reduce criticism against himself, bc he was actually fighting the war to get the seceded states back into the union

Question 19

What is the battle of Vicksburg?

Answer 19

This is the last battle of the Mississippi River. It’s taken by Grant

Question 20

What is the Crittenden Compromise?

Answer 20

After the south seceded, they wanted to return to the Union, and go back to the Missouri Compromise. Lincoln didn’t even consider it

Question 21

What is the Homestead Act?

Answer 21

This act gives anyone 160 acres out west with conditions such as they had to live on the land for 3 years and improve the land. This is still in effect today

Question 22

Who does Lincoln get as his VP the second time he is elected?

Answer 22

He gets Andrew Johnson because he is from the south and Lincoln believes the election is going to be close, so he wants to get some Democratic votes. Johnson could help bring the north and south back together

Question 23

What is Ex Parte Milligan?

Answer 23

This is the result of a Supreme Court case that says civilians can’t be tried in military court

Question 24

What happened at Fort Pillow?

Answer 24

Southern slaves that got freed often fought for the north. There was an all black regiment at Ft. Pillow that was attacked by Confederates. 260 blacks were captured and killed

Question 25

What was a new occupation for women during the Civil War?

Answer 25

Nurse

Question 26

What is the Trent Incident?

Answer 26

There was a Confederate ship on its way to Britain that was stopped by the Union. Britain was enraged, but Lincoln apologized to Queen Victoria and avoided war with Britain

Question 27

What were Radical Republicans?

Answer 27

They were radical republican abolitionists. They gave Lincoln a lot of trouble during his presidency

Question 28

What is Habeas Corpus?

Answer 28

This is the right to a fair and speedy trial. Lincoln suspends this during the Civil War because of spies and civilian courts were down

Question 29

Who were Copperheads?

Answer 29

These were Democrats in the north who opposed the Civil War

Question 30

What did the Gettsyburg Address state?

Answer 30

The purpose of the Civil War and why we were fighting

Question 31

What is the Morril Grant Act?

Answer 31

160 acres would be given to those who wanted to build colleges. All state colleges were founded this way

Question 32

What is the 10% plan?

Answer 32

If 10% of a seceded state pledged loyalty to the union, they could come back as a state

Question 33

During what years was reconstruction?

Answer 33

1865-1877

Question 34

What was Reconstruction?

Answer 34

This was readmitting the states to the Union. Lincoln and the Radical Republicans didn’t agree. The RR wanted to punish the south

Question 35

What are Carpetbaggers?

Answer 35

These are northerners who went south to take advantage of the Congress situation.

Question 36

What are Scalawags?

Answer 36

These are southerners who help carpetbaggers

Question 37

Why does Hayes, a Republican, win the 1876 election?

Answer 37

He told the south that if they voted for him that he would end recontruction

Question 38

What are the “Jim Crow Laws” or Black Codes?

Answer 38

This said that one would have to pass a test in order to in anything. Such as if you wanted to be on a jury you had to pass a literacy test. This took away the rights of the blacks

Question 39

What is the Grandfather Clause?

Answer 39

If your grandfather was a slave, you couldn’t vote

Question 40

What happened with United States vs. Cruikshank?

Answer 40

Whites tried to prevent blacks from voting, and a riot broke out. 30 blacks died, 2 whites died. Case appealed to the Supreme Court, and they said that the 15th amendment only applied to states preventing blacks from voting, not individuals