InQuizitive: Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861-1865
Identify the outcomes of the following major Civil War battles.
1. Battle of Gettysburg: the largest battle in the history of North America in July 1863. 2. Battle of Vicksburg: resulted in control of the Mississippi River for the Union in July 1863. 3. Battle of Chancellorsville: stunning defeat of General Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac in May 1863.
Identify the outcomes of the following Civil War battles.
1. Battle of the Wilderness: first battle in Grant's 1864 campaign. 2. Battle of Cold Harbor: after this battle, Grant's army had suffered as many casualties as Lee had men at the beginning of the 1864 campaign. 3. Battle of Atlanta: culmination of Sherman's 1864 campaign.
Who are the two major military figures that brought the Union victory in the West during the first two years of the war?
1. General Ulysses S. Grant 2. Admiral David G. Farragut
Complete the passage describing what started the Dakota War.
Due to corruption in the federal government, Dakota Indians did not receive SUPPLIES AND PAYMENTS owed to them by the United States as set forth in a treaty. At the same time, white settlers continued to illegally use Dakota LANDS. Dakota soldiers responded by attacking settlers and ARMY posts in Minnesota.
Drag the following states territories, or regions to their correct description.
Eastern Coastal North Carolina & Tennessee: Confederate area occupied by the Union. Maryland: slave state to which the Emancipation Proclamation does not apply. Kansas: free state. Virginia: Confederate area to which the Emancipation Proclamation applies.
President Lincoln favored a strategy that focused on capturing and holding Confederate territory-namely Richmond, the Confederate capital-not the destruction of the Confederate armies.
False.
Unwilling to surrender his army, General Robert E. Lee fought a desperate battle at Appomattox courthouse, marking one of the bloodiest of the Civil War.
False.
Complete the passage describing how Indian leaders reacted to the withdrawal of federal troops from the West during the Civil War.
Indian leaders realized that if the Union were to withdraw its federal troops from the West, it would be impossible for the tribes to keep WHITE invaders from intruding on their land. Indian leaders pointed out that TREATIES required the United States to keep settlers from trespassing on their lands. Ultimately, Indian leaders failed to get ABRAHAM LINCOLN to keep the U.S. troops in the West for their protection.
Some of the Confederate forces that opposed Grant at Shiloh had recently retreated from another location. What city had they left behind?
Nashville, Tennessee.
Read and analyze the "voices of freedom" primary source document in the chapter, titled "from Alexander H. Stephens, The Cornerstone Speech, Savannah" (1861).
Prominent Georgian political leader Alexander H. Stephens argued that the cornerstone of the new constitution of the CONFEDERACY rested on the established INEQUALITY of whites and Blacks, as was intended by GOD.
Complete the passage describing the role that Native Americans living in Indian Territory played in the fighting of the Civil War.
Residents of Indian Territory fought for BOTH SIDES during the Civil War. At least 3,00 Cherokee wanted to PRESERVE slavery and fought for the Confederacy. Regardless of the side they supported, the majority of Indians joined the war because they deeply desired to protect their nation's SOVEREIGNTY.
Select on the map the site where the very first shots of the Civil War were fired.
South Carolina (Dec. 20, 1860)
Complete the passage describing the policies that Lincoln and the U.S. Congress pursued that had disastrous effects on Native peoples.
The Homestead Act encouraged encroachment on Indian lands by offering FREE PUBLIC LAND to settlers moving west. By setting aside large pieces of land to finance higher education, the MORILL ACT led to the seizing of territories and resources used by Indians in the West. Lincoln and the U.S. Congress also granted thousands of acres to companies building the TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, often displacing Indians in the process.
Complete this passage describing the significance of the Sea Islands during the Civil War.
The Sea Islands, south Carolina became famous as a test case for the transition from slavery to freedom as over 10,000 enslaved people were left on the islands. Numerous northerners arrived, from government officials to private investors. One group, GIDEON'S BAND, as made up of Black and white reformers committed to uplifting the freed enslaved people. Convinced that EDUCATION was the key to making self-reliant, productive citizens of the formerly enslaved people, northern-born teachers CHARLOTTE FORTEN and Laura M. Towne, devoted themselves to teaching the freed Blacks of the sea Islands.
For the border states that chose not to secede from the Union, what was the impact of their decision?
They would later be exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation.
Grant's strategy of maintaining the initiative against Robert E. Lee, thus suffering high casualties in the Army of the Potomac, earned him a reputation of the "butcher of men".
True.
Identify the statements that describe their military contributions to the Union war effort during the Civil War.
1. Initially, the Union army refused to accept northern Black volunteers. 2. By the end of the civil War, more than 180,000 men had served in the Union army and 24,000 in the Union navy.
The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress on January 31, 1865. What did the amendment accomplish?
1. It abolished slavery throughout the entire United States. 2. For the first time, the word "slavery" appeared in the Constitution.
In the Western Theater of operations, Ulysses S. Grant laid siege to the city of Vicksburg, and it fell on July 4, 1863. What did Grant accomplish with this victory?
1. It gave Union complete control of the Mississippi, cutting the Confederacy in two. 2. Approximately 30,000 Confederate troops...which was a loss the Confederacy could not afford.
Which of the following are valid statements about Lincoln's vision of freedom as illustrated in this source?
1. Lincoln acknowledged northerns had different views of liberty. 2. Lincoln's use of a parable of the sheep, shepherd, and wolf underscored his thinking about slavery and emancipation.
Abraham Lincoln's path to emancipation was gradual and incremental. Place the following initiatives in order, culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1. Lincoln rescinded General Fremont's proclamation freeing enslaved people in Missouri. 2. Congress prohibited the army from returning fugitive slaves. 3. Lincoln championed colonization. 4. Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
Identify the statements that accurately describe the secession of the southern states and the creation of the Confederate States of America.
1. Louisiana seceded before the fall of Fort Sumter. 2. North Carolina was the last state to secede from the Union.
What other failures in the Confederate war effort can be attributed to Jefferson Davis and the political leadership of the Confederacy?
1. The Confederate leadership lacked a unity...opposed such measures as the draft. 2. Southern politicians saw political parties as threats...to help mobilize support for Davis and the war. 3. The Confederate government became far more centralized than the Old South...effective means of utilizing its major economic resource-cotton.
Identify the statements that accurately describe Native Americans and the Union in the West during the Civil War.
1. The Navajo's Long Walk was the Navajo people's forced removal from their ancestral lands by the U.S. Army. 2. The U.S. Army attacked the Kiowas and Comanches in the Southwest in retaliation for raids in settlements and ranches. 3. The Cherokee, forced to Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act, still owned enslaved people and sided with the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War.
What new technologies were revolutionizing warfare in the 1860s?
1. The mass-produced rifled musket allowed for greater accuracy. 2. Ironclad warships participated in direct combat with one another. 3. The telegraph was used to command and control a vast area of operations.
