Studied by 28 peopleWhy did Lee pick the Confederacy over the Union?
Lee couldn’t fight against his home state Virginia.
What does writs of habeas corpus protect?
A person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial.
What type of war did Jefferson Davis want to fight and why?
He wanted to fight a war of attrition to avoid large battles and exhaust Northern supplies
Why did the South suffer food shortages during the war?
The North’s Anaconda Plan.
What was the prison in the South where 13,000 Union soldiers died?
Andersonville Prison
What (why) did Lincoln stop prisoner exchanges during the war?
Until Confederates treated black soldiers equally as white soldiers.
Who traveled 600 miles in order to distract Confederate forces so Grant could land south of Vicksburg?
Benjamin Grierson
What city in Tennessee was important for the Union to capture because of the railroad running south to Atlanta?
Chatanooga
What did George McClellan promise in the election of 1864?
To better prosecute the Union Army effort in the Civil War.
What were the advantages the North had over the South in the war?
More population, experienced naval officers, experienced sailors, experienced military officers, factories/industries, railroads, and better finances.
What affair brought Union close to war with Britain?
Trent Affair
What were the plans and details of the Anaconda Plan?
Blockade Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to divide the Confederacy.
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
Enslaved people still in the rebellion states.
Why did the Confederate’s surrender to Vicksburg?
Troops were starving
Why was Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay important?
South no longer had a port on the Gulf og Mexico.
What 1865 amendment to the Constitution banned slavery?
Thirteenth amendment
national currency
Greenbacks
peace democrats, opposed war, wanted negotiation
Copperheads
first African American regiment officially organized in the North
54th Massachusetts
cut off food and supplies and bombarded the city
siege of Vicksburg
What charge at Gettysburg resulted in slaughter of Confederate troops?
Picketts Charge
What order did Sherman give to the citizens of Atlanta before he burned it?
To evacuate the city
Where and when did Lee surrender to Grant?
April 9, 1865, at the Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia.
What resulted in the Union’s capture of the South’s largest city?
Battle of New Orleans
Britain did not recognize confederacy, so south lost international recognition and support did what?
Convinced Lincoln to end slavery
Battle of Bull Run
battle where “Stonewall” Jackson got his nickname
First battle of Bull Run
Union defeat convinced Lincoln to increase enlistment to 500,000 troops
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Proposed the Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
Robert E. Lee
Confederate General
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