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Identify U.S. Grant
An alcoholic, was able to defeat Lee and he commanded the Union army.
Identify "Stonewall" Jackson.
one of Lee's two best generals
Who won the Civil War?
Union
Identify the Brooks/Sumner Affair?
Congressman Brooks (SC) appeared in Senate and beat Sumner (MA) with a cane for insulting his father in law.
Identify Harriet Beecher Stowe?
wrote anti-slavery novel called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852; This makes abolition ever more popular in the North; and it depicted of brutal slave holder, Simon Legres
Identify John Brown?
radical abolishionist; his airm to arm slaves and lead guerilla war from App. Mts.; tried for treason; hung; martyr to slavery
Identify the Union General who was hated in the South because he commanded an army which preyed on cilvilians as it vurned its way through Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Why was Vicksburg strategically important?
Provided a trade corridor to ports in Mexico.
During the Battle of Gettysburg, Lee ordered a disastrous frontal assault agains the strongest point of the Union line called _________.
Pickett's Charge
What were Union goals during the Red River Campaign?
1)get stored cotton
2)Take Texas out of war
Who was the confederate general during the battle of Mansfield?
Richard Taylor
What were major parts of the Union's strategy called the Anaconda Plan?
1)State Dept. cultivate Britain & France to keep them from recognizing Confederacy.
2)Navy blockade South.
3)Split confederacy
The Dred Scott made two important rulings. What were they?
1)Supreme Court said slaves had no rights under the Constitution.
2)Congress had no power to prohibit slavery.
What were the Southern advantages during the Civil War?
officers dominated US Army combat divisions, short supply lines, excellent knowledge of terrain
What was the major impact of the battle vetween the Monitor and Merrimac?
Naval warfare changed forever, making wooden ships obsolete
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Ft. Sumter, Charleston, SC
What new state was created during the Civil War?
West Virginia
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Why did the Southern states secede from the Union?
Lincoln, a republican who was a radical was elected president
Wkhat was the cause of most deaths?
dysentery
Compare the number of men killed at Shiloh to other American war battles?
More men than all previous wars combined - total 23,000 casualties killed and wounded
Why did Robert E. Lee choose the Confederacy?
Because Virginia secedes
Did Lincoln choose a capable cabinet?
yes
Were the draft laws popular?
no
Compare casualties of the Civil War to other American war battles.
highest loss of American men more than any previous wars combined
About how many men fought in the Civil War?
3 million
What was Lincoln's margin of victory in the election of 1860?
elected with 40% of vote
Name the most important battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Did the South think that England would come to her aid? If so, why?
Yes; felt British dependence upon Southern cotton would cause her to favor the South.
Did the Compromises of 1820 and 1850 delay or speed up the Civil War?
delayed
Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? Slaves from what area were affected by it?
To free slaves from the confederacy; Freed all slaves in territories hold by Confederates.
Identify Bleeding Kansas.
Sequence of violence events involving anti and pro slavery. Attempting to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free/slave state.
Name the first major battle (not opening shots) of Civil War?
First Bull Run
How did the cotton gin impact the South?
production increased and number of slaves increased so saved slavery.
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