The Civil War & Reconstruction

Question 0

How was the Civil War accelerated?

Answer 0

*** By the shift in federal power that occurred when California was admitted to the Union as a free state

*** shifted a lot of power towards the abolitionist movement in Congress

*** election of pro-abolitionist Abraham Lincoln

Question 1

The Civil War stemmed from the south’s resistance to the _______?

Answer 1

Northern Abolitionist Movement

Question 2

Secessionists called for a new nation, which would be called?

Answer 2

The Confederate States of America

Question 3

As the Northern Abolitionist movement grew, what did the South begin to fear?

Answer 3

Abolishment of Slavery

Question 4

What does Secessionist mean?

Answer 4

People who called for a new nation for the South

Question 5

What were the titles for the North and South??

Answer 5

North - Union

South - Confederates

Question 6

The Confederates established their own what?

Answer 6

Government

*** Capital was originally in Richmond, Virginia

Question 7

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 7

Jefferson Davis

Question 8

Who had the advantages in the Civil War? What were they?

Answer 8

The North

1. Larger population
2. More developed manufacturing base
   * ** more weapons
3. More developed transportation network
   * ** at the start the North had 3x the amount of railroad track the South had

Question 9

What was the South’s only advantage in the Civil War?

Answer 9

Military leadership

*** more experienced, more tactical leaders

Question 10

Who were the examples of leaders for the Confederacy?

Answer 10

1. Stonewall Jackson

2. Robert E. Lee

Question 11

What happened as a result of good military leadership in the South?

Answer 11

Long War

Question 12

How long did the Civil War last?

Answer 12

1861-1865

*** should have only lasted two years

A COMBO OF:

BLunders by the North

Strong military leadership

PROLONGED THE CIVIL WAR

Question 13

What were the strategies of the North?

Answer 13

1. Isolate the South - close of access to shipping along the Eastern Seaboard

*** cannot obtain more supplies

2. Capture the Capital - capture the leaders

*** why the capital was moved from Richmond

3. Split the South

• make them fight a two front war
• split their battle power
• starve them out / isolate them from food crops

4. Prevent South from surging into the North

Question 14

Why is the Civil War sometimes known as a “War of Attrition”?

Answer 14

Who can outlast wh0m?

Question 15

What were the Southern strategies?

Answer 15

1. Surge into the North

• take control of supply lines and trade routes
• take control of manufacturing bases

Question 16

How many battles were in the Civil War?

Answer 16

Over 1,000

Question 17

Explain the battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 17

Southern General Beauregard fires on Federal fort in Charleston Harbor

*** 1st battle of the Civil War

Question 18

What interesting fact happened at the Battle of Fort Sumter?

Answer 18

The North was so confident that they would win, ppl came out to watch the battles in picnics.

*** the South overran this region, northerners had to scramble for their lives

Question 19

Explain the battle of Antietum

Answer 19

Single bloodies battle / most lives lost

Northern General McClellan’s stops and ends Lee’s invasion of the North here in Antietum

*** The South’s first big attempt to surge into the North

Question 20

Explain the battle of Chancellorsville

Answer 20

*** Major win for the South

Lee defeats Hooker’s Army of Potomac (Major Northern Army)

but Stonewall Jackson is killed

Question 21

What superstitious thing did Stonewall Jackson like to do during battles?

Answer 21

Ride around a like a crazy person with his finger in the air

Question 22

How did Stonewall Jackson die?

Answer 22

He was riding back to his troops and his own men fired on him

Question 23

Explain the battle of Gettysburg

Answer 23

2nd major surge attempt by the South

Robert E. Lee loses to General Meade

Attempt failed

Question 24

What happened during Pickett's charge at Gettysburg ?

Answer 24

It failed

Question 25

What was considered to be with the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 25

Was the last chance for the South to surge The beginning of the end

Question 26

Explain what happened at Appomattox

Answer 26

1. Lee's force are surrounded 2. Forced to surrender 3. Few skirmishes occur, but really with the surrender the war is over

Question 27

What is the first war that is well-chronicled in photography?

Answer 27

Civil War

Question 28

When we talk about Reconstruction, what are we talking about?

Answer 28

Physical and Ideological Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War

Question 29

What did the North want to do in the South after the Civil War?

Answer 29

Implement the Northern policies in the South *** make the South reconstruct according to their guidelines

Question 30

What did the Radicals & Moderates want to d0?

Answer 30

Implement Northern policy into the South

Question 31

What did the Radicals do?

Answer 31

Favored putting an occupying army in the South *** forcing them to adhere to Northern policy

Question 32

What did the Moderates want to allow/create?

Answer 32

They wanted to implement the policies and strategies of the North and allow the South to moderate it themselves

Question 33

In Congress there was a strong presence of what?

Answer 33

Radicals

Question 34

Congress favored putting what in the South?

Answer 34

An occupying army

Question 35

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?

Answer 35

He was a moderate and opposed putting and occupying army in the South

Question 36

During Reconstruction, many northerners moved where to do what?

Answer 36

They moved to the South to start businesses

Question 37

As the southerners resented the newly moved-in northerners what did they call them?

Answer 37

Carpetbaggers Scalawags

Question 38

Was Radical Reconstruction going well?

Answer 38

Yes, it was passed by Congress

Question 39

The southerners felt that the Northerners were doing what by moving to the South?

Answer 39

Taking advantage of opportunities in the South

Question 40

Where does the name carpetbagger come from?

Answer 40

The northerners bringing suitcases made of carpet to sell things

Question 41

What was happening to the freed African-Americans of the Southern region during Reconstruction?

Answer 41

They were obtaining new rights - suffrage rights - property rights - integrated facilities

Question 42

The disputed presidential election of 1876 led to a compromise of what?

Answer 42

Ending Reconstruction 1. The North said to the South, if you accept our Candidate, we will end Reconstruction 2. South accepted 3. North retracts troops 4. Allows South to continue a moderate form of Reconstruction

Question 43

After the compromise involving the election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction, what ended up happening in the South?

Answer 43

Racist Legislation against African-Americans *** Jim Crowe Laws

Question 44

As a result of the Jim Crow laws what happened in the South

Answer 44

Separated facilities Voting rights gone

Question 45

75 years after Jim Crow laws are introduced, what would begin to happen?

Answer 45

American Civil Rights Movement (1960s) *** Dr. Martin Luther King

Question 46

What monumental court case would grant equality to African-Americans?

Answer 46

Brown vs. The Board of Education *** separated facilities were inherently unequal *** integrate schools

Question 47

What was lost during the Compromise in 1876 with the Radical Reconstruction and regained with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s?

Answer 47

Equality between African-Americans and Whites