Workbook questions Module 18 lessons 1-5 Flashcards
How did the South react to Lincoln’s election to the presidency?
After being elected in 1860, Abraham Lincoln took office as seven southern states left the Union
How did Lincoln respond to the surrender of Fort Sumter?
Lincoln called for 75,000 militiamen to put down the South’s rebellion
Why didn’t cotton diplomacy work?
This strategy did not work because Britain had large stores of cotton and got more from India and Egypt.
In what ways did civilians help the war effort?
They raised money to aid soldiers and their families.
What did the First Battle of Bull run show?
It showed that the war would not be an easy victory for the Union
Name all of the Battles talked about.
1- First Battle of Bull Run
2- Seven Days’ Battles
3- Battle of Bull Run
4- Battle of Antietam
5- Battle of Shiloh
6- The Sige of Vicksburg
7- Battle of Pea Ridge
8- Battle of Fredericksburg
9- Battle of Chancellorsville
10- Battle of Gettysburg
Where the Unions blockades of the Southern ports effective?
Southern ports
What was the hope that the Confederacy had that they hoped Britian would support the Confederacy? Why did they think it was going to work?
Cotton Diplomacy
Because the British needed Confederacy cotton
General __________ commanded the Confederate forces during the Seven Days’ Battles. He saved Richmond and forced the Union army to retreat.
General Robert E. Lee
The _______ was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil war, with a total of more than 25,000 casualties
Battle of Antietam
The North’s hopes of winning the war quickly and easily were crushed when the Union army was defeated at the __________________
Second Battle of Bull Run
General ________________ led Confederate troops to victory during the First Battle of Bull Run
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Why did the Union consider control of the Mississippi River critical?
Because the Confederacy wanted to capture outposts to separate the eastern Confederacy from its western, food-supplying states
Where Fort Henry and Donelson Confederate or Union forts?
Confederate forts
How was New Orleans captured?
General David Farragut disguised his boats and raced the two forts in the darkness before dawn.
