U.S. History Chapter 4

The Battle at ________________________, fought during the Civil War, proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with casualties totaling more than 26,000.

Antietam

The ____________________Amendment ended the system of slavery (made it illegal).

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What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott decision?

Being in free territory did not make a slave free

What were the 3 advantages for the North (the Union) over the South (the Confederacy)

Better food production, more people, and larger industrial capital

The first bloodshed on the battlefield occurred about three months after Fort Sumter fell, near the little creek of _________________________.

Bull Run

Which event was a direct result of the compromise of 1850?

California was admitted to the Union as a free state

TRUE OR FALSE: At the request of President Abraham Lincoln, the terms of surrender for the Confederacy were strict so as to make sure they would never try secession again.

False

TRUE OR FALSE: Clara Barton, a nurse in the Confederacy, would go on to found the American Red Cross after the Civil War.

False

TRUE OR FALSE: The Northern economy was a plantation economy, where as the Southern economy was a mixed economy (it depended on plantations and industries both).

False

TRUE OR FALSE: To raise their numbers in their military, both Union and Confederate leaders imposed the writ of habeas corpus,a draft that forced men into their armies.

False

TRUE OR FALSE: Unlike abolitionists, a number of Northern Free-Soilers supported racist laws prohibiting settlement by blacks in their communities and denying them the right to vote since what Free-Soilers primarily objected to was slavery's competition with free white workers, or a wage-based labor force, upon which the North depended.

False

This 3-day battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War because it crippled the Confederacy so badly that Confederate troops would never again be able to invade another Northern state

Gettysburg

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by ________________________________.

John Wilkes Booth

While the Battle of Bull Run, fought during the Civil War, was a victory for the Confederacy over the Union, it was also the place where Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson, who displayed an amazing sense of bravery during the fight, would receive his very famous nickname of General _______________________________.

Stonewall Jackson

What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?

The South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized

Under popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed into a territory?

The residents of the territory

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

To restore the Union

TRUE OR FALSE: At the beginning of the Civil War, African Americans made up only 1% of the North's population, but by war's end they would make up about 10% of the Northern army.

True

TRUE OR FALSE: Because of developments in technology, the Civil War has been called the last old-fashioned war, or the first modern war.

True

TRUE OR FALSE: Economically, the Civil War dramatically widened the gap between North and South.

True

TRUE OR FALSE: For many, the Emancipation Proclamation gave the Civil War a moral purpose by turning the struggle into a fight to free the slaves.

True

Commander of all Union forces during the Civil War, General __________________________ overall strategy was to decimate General Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia while Sherman raided Georgia. Even if his casualties ran twice as high as those of Lee—and they did—the North could afford it; the South could not

Ulysses S. Grant

Harriet Beecher Stowe brought the horrors of slavery into the homes of a great many Americans by publishing novel, "____________________________" , which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle. Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Which side wore blue uniforms during the Civil War?

Union

His march across Georgia, during the Civil War, created a wide path of destruction, terrorized civilians and destroyed the morale of white Southerners.

William Tecumseh Sherman

When it came to the issue of slavery, Abraham Lincoln believed that it was immoral but could only be abolished

adding an amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending it (making it illegal)

Harriet Tubman's role on the "Underground Railroad" was that of a(n) _______________________ , which meant that she was responsible for hiding fugitives in secret tunnels and false cupboards, provided them with food and clothing,and escorted or directed them to the next "station."

conductor

As the fighting during the Civil War intensified, heavy casualties and widespread desertions led each side to impose ________________, a draft that forced men to serve in the army.

conscription

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is called __________________________.

secession

During the Civil War, Generals Grant and Sherman were comrades in arms, who both men believed in waging ____________________ because they reasoned that it was the strength of the southern people's will that was keeping the war going and if the Union could destroy the Southern population's will to fight, the Confederacy would collapse.

total war