Watershed

Question 1

Why was the Civil War a watershed?

Answer 1

Because it was an event that was a benchmark.

Question 2

Tactic used by the North?

Answer 2

Slash and Burn (Total War)

Question 3

Who was the general of the North?

Answer 3

General Grant

Question 4

Who was the first person to take a photograph? Why was this important?

Answer 4

Mathew Brady

It showed people an image as to what the war truly was.

Question 5

Mass production was big where?

Answer 5

The North, they were very industrialized and had ready-made clothing.

Question 6

What product became essential and better than iron?

Answer 6

Steel, it was tougher (sturdier) than iron. Iron railroad tracks were replaced with steel tracks.

Question 7

What was the railroad war?

Answer 7

The North had all of the railroads and the South only had one.

Question 8

Who was the first person to fly a hot air balloon for the North?

Answer 8

Thaddeus Lowe, the village idiot. Got on the balloon by saying that he knew how to fly it and that he knew the coordinates as to where he needed to go. Flew into Southern territory, got captured and imprisoned. Was later released

Question 9

Military Telegraph

Answer 9

Messages couldn’t be intersected, and it was a quicker way of communicating.

Question 10

What was the Gatlin Gun?

Answer 10

It was a gun similar to a machine gun

Question 11

Who were the Titans of Industry?

Answer 11

Rockefeller (oil), JP Morgan (Banking) and Vanderbilt (shipping).
JP Morgan loaned the Union a ton of money and charged it with interest.

Question 12

What were the two new states?

Answer 12

Nevada and West Virginia.

1. Nevada was politically expedient and Lincoln needed votes.
2. Virginia because it was a mining state and there was no need for slaves.

Question 13

What was the Paramount Allegiance Clause?

Answer 13

Nevada does what it wants to do

Question 14

What is the 13th Amendment?

Answer 14

1865: Ends Slavery

Question 15

What is the 14th Amendment?

Answer 15

1868:Citizenship

Question 16

What is the 15th Amendment?

Answer 16

1868: The right to vote. (only men) women couldn’t vote.

Question 17

Why were the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment considered “paper Amendments”?

Answer 17

Because they were not respected at all

Question 18

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 18

Grandfather Clause: A slave had a grandfather that had, had the right to vote. Of course since no slaves could vote before the !5th amendment took place, it was all bologna.
Poll Taxes: charging a fee to vote, most slaves wouldn’t vote because they didn’t have the money to pay for the fee.
Literacy tests: Individuals that wanted to vote had to take a test to see how much they knew.

Question 19

1896: Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 19

Was the case where Plessy was fighting the doctrine separate but equal.

Question 20

What was the Women militant suffrage movement?

Answer 20

Women fought to be included in the right to vote.

Question 21

Harriet Tubman, “Black Moses”

Answer 21

Spy, ran the underground railroad

Question 22

Clara Barton

Answer 22

Red Cross

Question 23

Dorothea Dix

Answer 23

Superintendent Nursing, would only hire ugly women so that the men wouldn’t fall in love with .

Question 24

Medicine

Answer 24

Chloroform, opiates. Anasthasia was whiskey.

Question 25

What was the Soldier’s Disease?

Answer 25

An addiction that soldiers developed when they would have surgery. It was due to the fact that they were given Opium.

Question 26

Morill Land Grant Act

Answer 26

Union promised to build universities and colleges if there is an ad school .

Question 27

Mass production

Answer 27

Important because clothes were being made very fast, which is crucial for the soldiers and winning the war.

Question 28

What was the first modern war known as?

Answer 28

World War 1

Question 29

Nevada Constitution

Answer 29

First State to put that it is loyal to the federal government first and then the state (allegiance).

Question 30

Agriculture

Answer 30

Prior to war, 70% of the population lived in rural areas.