Unit 4 Flashcards
What was the name of the series of 5 laws passed in 1850 that attempted to resolve the issue of slavery in new states?
Compromise of 1850
What was the name of the speech given by President Lincoln where he remembered the more than 50,000 men who lost their lives in battle?
Gettysburg Address
What document declared all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states were free?
Emancipation Proclamation
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant at the end of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
Name some ways the North financed the Civil War.
1) Borrowed funds
2) Raised money through taxes
3) Created paper money
Who implemented the Anaconda Plan?
General Winfield Scott
Name some battles of the Civil War and their significance?
1) First Battle of Bull Run: 1st major battle of the war
2) Battle of Gettysburg: turning point of war
3) Battle of Antietam: deadliest battle in American military history
What speech was given 4 months after the Battle of Gettysburg at the dedication of the cemetery?
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
How high did inflation actually rise in the South by the end of the Civil War?
Over 9,000 percent.
Why did the South not want California to enter the Union?
CA was a free state and it would upset the balance of power in Congress.
What type of war did General Sherman wage in the South?
Total War
Whose gameplan did General Sherman use with the Total War strategy?
Ulysses S. Grant
What act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
1854 Kansas/Nebraska Act
True/False The Kansas/Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise?
True - it allowed each territory to decide about slavery for themselves
True/False The main idea of General Scott’s Anaconda Plan was to blockade southern water ports.
True
True/False President LIncoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the South?
False
True/False The primary outcome of the Battle of Antietam was the South was never able to invade the North again.
False - The Battle of Gettysburg
True/False The South’s basic strategy to win the war was to destroy the North’s manufacturing capabilities.
False
What was the biggest issue of the day in the 1850’s?
Slavery
