Unit 2 History Test

Question 0

The “Anaconda” plan

Answer 0

The Anaconda Plan or Scott’s Great Snake is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil war. Proposed by Winfield Scott, the plan blocked the southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the south in two.

Question 1

Fort Sumter

Answer 1

It was April 12, 1861 in Charleston Harbor, SC “It was a bloodless opening to the bloodiest war in U.S. history.” The union surrenders. (The civil war was signaled by fort Sumter)

Question 2

Border states

Answer 2

Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee.

Question 3

Cone-shaped bullet

Answer 3

The bullets in the Civil war were huge, about an inch in diameter, and weighing a few ounces. Once these 1,2, or 3 ounces of pure lead were moving at 800 to 900 feet per second and having it crash into a bone in your body, you get a huge amount of crashing power, the bones in your body weren’t just broken but shattered.

Question 4

Bull Run (Manassas)

Answer 4

First major battle of the civil war. July 1861 in Manassas Virginia (close to D.C.)

Question 5

Ironclad

Answer 5

An ironclad was a steam propelled warship invented in the civil war. It was protected by iron or steel plates. It was first used in the battle of Hampton roads (March 1862) it was used to defeat wooden warships.

Question 6

“Fighting Rebels with only one hand”

Answer 6

(Excerpts) from Fredrick Douglass monthly, September 1862. About how African Americans deserve the right to in list in the army.

Question 7

Battle of Antietam

Answer 7

It was one of the most important battles of the civil war. It was the first battle fought outside of southern soil. 22,717 estimated casualties, the battle ended up “inconclusive” one of the deadliest battles of the civil war, Lee finally defeated and his army was forced back into Virginia.

Question 9

The emancipation proclamation

Answer 9

Jan 1863 (Emancipate: verb: To set free, to liberate) The emancipation proclamation was a complex process that involved many individual’s including the slaves themselves. Abolisioists including African Americans pressured Lincoln for emancipation. Lincoln’s cabinet don’t vote for empat. (They urge him to wait for a union victory)

Question 10

54th Massachusetts regiment

Answer 10

The 54th regiment was one of the first to recruit African American soldiers. 186,000 black soldiers insisted in the army.

Question 10

20th Maine regiment

Answer 10

This regiment was famous for its defense in the battle of little round top. (Union)

Question 11

Gettysburg

Answer 11

(cemetery hill & little round top) The battle of Gettysburg happened two years into the war and it had no clear ending in sight. Little round top ant(Lee had continued success in Virginia (even after Antietam) Ulysses S. Grant and union troops in the west are on the verge of seizing the M.S. River. Lee decides to take 75,000 troops and try to blow Union territory. Union victory. Casualties: 51,112. Bloodiest war in the CW.

Question 12

Little round top

Answer 12

The battle of little round top was the sight of an unsuccessful assault by the confederate troops against the union. It is considered the turning point in union defense lines by many historians.

Question 13

Vicksburg

Answer 13

The siege I Vicksburg was the final big military action of the civil war. It is where lee and the confederate army surrendered.

Question 14

New York City draft riots

Answer 14

(July 1863) in the north when enthusiasm was fading in the midst of the civil war the most violent riot of the CW broke out two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg. 120 people were killed.

Question 15

The Gettysburg address

Answer 15

A speech by Abe Lincoln. November 19, 1863. A two minute speech with a very powerful message. It is one of the most famous speeches in US history. It was a powerful explanation of why Northerners had to continue to fight for the civil war despite its terrible human costs.

Question 16

Election of 1864

Answer 16

Lincoln was reelected - union was on the verge of winning the war with slavery destroyed. In his second inaugural address he talks about how God should be mad at the world for its sins. Abe (republican) vs. George McClellan (democrat).

Question 17

Total war

Answer 17

In the middle of the CW total war broke out. The union sought to totally destroy the south. (As if they were a foreign enemy) an order was passed that allowed soldiers to destroy anything that might be of use to the confederacy.

Question 18

Sherman’s March

Answer 18

Begins in Chattanooga, TN and then marched to Atlanta, GA and captures/destroys one of the south’s major cities. March the goes towards the Atlantic Ocean. (All the way to savannah, Georgia) union then turned north and moved through SC and NC.

Question 19

The 13th amendment

Answer 19

Passed Jan 1865 but it was ratified in December. The official abolishment of slavery in the United States. A major challenge to get it passed through congress. Thaddeus Stevens and the “radical republicans” had a large role in passing the law.

Question 20

Lincoln’s second inaugural

Answer 20

Lincoln reelected - union on the verge of winning the war with slavery destroyed. Answers the question,”why was the CW necessary?” Calls for reconciliation.

Question 22

Appomattox Court House, VA

Answer 22

April 9, 1865 Lee surrenders the ANV to Grant at Appomattox Court House, VA.

Question 23

Bennett place, NC

Answer 23

April, 28, 1865 , The largest confederate surrender of the civil war. In Durham, NC

Question 24

Secession and confederacy

Answer 24

To secede means to drop out so when the confederate states suceeded from the union they dropped out and were no longer part of the country.

Question 25

Sullivan Ballou

Answer 25

A 32 year old man who wrote a touching love letter to his wife a week before the battle of Bull run (Manassas) wrote his wife a touching letter saing he loved her. This letter gave insight on why soldiers had to fight in the CW.

Question 26

Jefferson Davis

Answer 26

Was the confederates president. (in 1862)

Question 27

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 27

An african american man who used to be a slave who gave many powerful speeches such as “fighting rebels with only one hand” (1861)

Question 28

Samuel Cabble

Answer 28

African american man in the civil war who wrote a letter to his wife before doing military campaigns.

Question 29

George McClellan

Answer 29

Was a major general in the CW. He fought in the battle of Antietam, and led 87,000 union troops.

Question 30

Joshua Chamberlain

Answer 30

A professer who volunteered to fight in the CW for the union. He had no military training but he bravely stayed and defended little round top. He became a highly respected general.

Question 31

Dorothea Dix

Answer 31

Supper intendent of union nurses, helped fund mental institutions.

Question 32

Sally Tompkins

Answer 32

Angel of the confederacy.

Question 33

William Seward

Answer 33

A victim of Booth’s gang. Was nearly killed by Lewis Paine.

Question 34

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 34

Assassinated Lincoln 1865. Was an actor. Died in a burning barn after being shot through the head.

Question 35

Andrew Johnson

Answer 35

Vice president to Abe Lincoln. A victim of booth’s gang.