The Civil War

Question 1

Know the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America

Answer 1

South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina

Question 2

What were explanations for the order in which the confederate states seceded?

Answer 2

The percentages of their populations who were enslaved

Question 3

Know the four slave states that remained in the Union

Answer 3

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware

Question 4

What were the major advantages that the South had in the war (including psychological)?

Answer 4

• Fighting a defensive war: familiar with terrain, local population was supportive
• Their cotton supply could lead to support from Britain and French
• They had better generals, and confidence in them
• They had the economic and lifestyle of Slavery to lose

Question 5

What were the major advantages that the North had (including psychological)?

Answer 5

• Higher population: 21 million
• More stable economy: manufactured weaponry
• Larger navy
• Abraham Lincoln and well established political institutions
• Confidence in their ultimate victory: faith in political institutions

Question 6

Facts regarding armies during the war

Answer 6

• Both sides called for volunteers at first
• both have to draft 2 years after
  
  • North:1863, South:1862
  • conflicts with drafts

Question 7

What was true of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis as leaders?

Answer 7

Lincoln- social intelligence, experience in congress,

Davis- lots of military experience, secretary of defense, reluctant to be president

Question 8

What was Lee trying to accomplish in the Battle of Antietam?
What was the outcome?
What did it allow Lincoln to do?

Answer 8

recognition from Europe
23,000 casualties, no grounds gained, Union victory
Emancipation proclamation

Question 9

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
What did it do and what didn’t it do?
What was its significance?

Answer 9

issued by Lincoln January 1, 1863.
slavery ended in areas on rebellion, opens military service for african americans
there was a new motive of what the war was for; if Union wins, no more slavery

Question 10

What did General George McClellan accomplish?

Why was Lincoln so frustrated with him?

Answer 10

he was very good at training troops

He didn’t have a plan after training

Question 11

What was the evolution in the role of African Americans in the war?

Answer 11

after the Emancipation they were allowed to fight for the Union

Question 12

What was Lee’s purpose in taking his troops to the North this time?
How many casualties were there?

Answer 12

To take control of Gettysburg and eventually Washington DC

51,000 casualties on both sides

Question 13

Why was Vicksburg, Mississippi so important?

Answer 13

A battle, The Union controlled all of Mississippi River, expect Vicksburg and winning would mean splitting the Confederacy

Question 14

How did the election of 1864 develop (who was running)? What saved it for Lincoln (battle)?

Answer 14

Lincoln vs McClellan

Looks like lincoln will lose but then the Battle of Atlanta happened

Question 15

What event ended any doubt about which side would win the war?

Answer 15

The battle of Atlanta

Union destroyed a big manufacturing site for the south

Question 16

What happened at Appomattox and why were the ‘theatrics’ important?

Answer 16

Lee surrendered his entire army

Theatrics were important because it marked the end of the war and unification of the country

Question 17

How did Lincoln evolve during the war and how did the war’s purpose evolve along with him?

Answer 17

He turned the war more and more against slavery, after it started for just unification.

Question 18

What happened during Pickett’s charge?

Why significant?

Answer 18

Lee ordered Pickett’s charge on the third day (it was hopeless), March across open field to Union forces- clear shot for Union shooters, Lost almost all of his troops.

The confederates lost almost all their troops,
And all hope of invading the north

Question 19

What happened at the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 19

the union was on cemetery ridge
The confederates wanted to take it
And go into maryland and pennsylvania.
Lee failed and never re entered the north

Question 20

What role did General Ulysses S. Grant play during the Civil War? What were his strengths?

Answer 20

General selected by lincoln because he understood the “grisly arithmetic”
He was responsible for vicksburg
His men liked him
Good at encouraging troops

Question 21

What role did General Robert E. Lee’s play during the war? His strengths? Biggest mistake?

Answer 21

Confederate general
Strengths:
Very well respected and aggressive in war
Greatest mistake:
The charge on gettysburg (Ordering Pickett’s charge?)

Question 22

What happened in the First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas in July, 1861?

Answer 22

Union was trying to move to richmond but the confederates flanked them
Union dismantled in the afternoon and each side took 5000 casualties

Question 23

When and how did the war begin?

Answer 23

1861 april 12. confederates in fort sumter fired on union from charleston bay. sumter surrendered and there were 0 casualties