The Civil War (ch.11)

Question 1

Abraham Licoln

Answer 1

President during the war.

Question 2

Jefferson Davis

Answer 2

Had to decide between war or not. He chose war.

Question 3

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 3

Headed union army in 1862 hen they invaded western Tennessee. Brave, tough, and decisive military commander.

Question 4

Robert E. Lee

Answer 4

Took command of the Confederate army after Joseph E. Johnston was wounded while fighting.

Question 5

Battle of Bull Run

Answer 5

Inexperienced Union soldiers came upon equally inexperienced Confederate army encamped near the little creek of Bull Run. First victory for the confederate army.

Question 6

Battle of Antietam

Answer 6

After McClellan found Lee’s army orders, he ordered his men forward after Lee. They fought on Sept. 17 by a sluggish creek called Antietam. Bloodiest single-day battle in American history. McClellan didnt keep going though, so Lincoln fired him.

Question 7

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 7

Three day battle that was the turning point of the war. Crippled the South so badly that Lee would never again posess sufficient forces to incade a Northern state.

Question 8

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 8

Freed slaes that were behind Confederate lines. Didn’t apply to any Union states or areas they had captured during the war.

Question 9

Conscription

Answer 9

A draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army.

Question 10

Gettysburg Address

Answer 10

Lincoln”s speech that remade America. People now said the United States is instead of the United States are.

Question 11

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 11

Site of the Confederate surrender on April 9, 1865.

Question 12

Thirteenth Amendment

Answer 12

Stopped slavery in the United States.

Question 13

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 13

Assassinated Lincoln.

Question 14

Military strategies of the North and South at the outset of the war.

Answer 14

Union had a three part plan (Anaconda Plan): blockade the southern ports, split the confederacy in two, then capture the capital of Rochmond Virginia. South was more defensive since they were protecting their homeland.

Question 15

Advantages for the North and the South at the beginning of the war.

Answer 15

North had more fighting power, more factories, greater food production, and a more extensive railroad system. South had “King Cotton”, first-rate generals, a stong military tradition, and soldiers who were highly motivated.

Question 16

Acts of protest that occured in the North and South during the war.

Answer 16

Many riots, especially in New York, broke out, as well as attacks on certain cities.

Question 17

What was Grant and Sherman’s rationale for using the strategy of total war?

Answer 17

Sherman had to avoid being circled by the Confederate army, so he abandoned his supply lines and made a wide path of destruction to get out. They wanted to make the South so sick of war that they wouldnt think about doing it again for a long time.