Dual Credit History Chapter 15

19. Where did the most violent protest against the war take place in the north?

New York, with the Draft Riot.

32. What did the 13th Amendment do?

No slavery shall exist within the United States.

29. What was Lee's big mistake at Gettysburg?

Picket's charge into the middle of the Union lines.

10. What was the significance of the Battle of Shiloh?

Shocked the nation with the number of casualties. It exceeded the losses in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican-American War combined.

8. What was the importance of the ironclad ship?

Showed that the world was entering a new phase of military technology.

27. What was the Fort Pillow Massacre?

Confederate soldiers massacred most of an African American regiment who may have been attempting to surrender at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.

18. Northern Democrats who refused to support the war were called what?

Copperheads.

6. What was the goal of the Union army at the beginning of the war?

To occupy southern territory and defeat the Confederate army-not aiming to subjugate the southern people.

9. Which Union general won decisive victories in the first half of 1862? Where?

Ulysses S. Grant.

20. What type of riot took place in Richmond, Virginia?

A food riot.

34. When and where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

At Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

3. What were the South's advantages?

Fighting a defensive war, superior military leadership, and will to fight.

12. Who did Robert E. Lee replace as the head of the Northern Army of Virginia?

General Joseph Johnson.

11. Who was the original commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac? What was his biggest problem? Who replaced him? Who replaced him?

George B. McClellan, who had insecurity and in being overly cautious. He was replaced by John Pope, who was then replaced by McClellan.

28. What battle is usually looked to as the turning point of the Civil War?

Gettysburg.

30. What was important about the Battle of Vicksburg?

Grant won and it sent Confederacy into eastern and western halves.

21. What did Jefferson Davis not do that hurt him with his constituents?

He made no attempt to provide government assistance, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, conscription, and impressments.

15. What did Lincoln do to deal with dissent in the North? What did Jefferson Davis do differently?

He suspended the writ of habeas corpus-this enabled Union soldiers to arrest any northern civilians suspected of disloyalty and imprison them without benefit of a trial. Davis did the same in the South, but not on his own. He sought approval from the Confederate Congress.

26. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

It freed slaves in areas that were in rebellion.

24. What did the Confiscation Act do?

It officially declared that any slaves used for military purposes would be freed if they came into Union hands.

7. Why was taking New Orleans a significant coup for the North?

It opened the Mississippi River valley to invasion from the South.

33. What did Sherman's March to the Sea show?

It showed how much the war had changed since 1861. It had started with strategy of limited war and turned into total war.

13. What was ironic about the Confederate government assuming a great deal of control in order to prosecute the war?

Jefferson Davis found it necessary to concentrate power under a centralized authority since one of the principle reasons for southern secession was defending the rights of states over the rights of the national government.

2. List the advantages of the north.

Larger population, greater industrial strength, and superior political leadership.

31. Who ran in the 1864 election? Who won?

Lincoln and McClellan. Lincoln won.

22. List the 4 border states (5).

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia.

1. How did both the north and south feel about the war initially?

That it would not change their societies very dramatically.

25. Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation after what battle? What did the proclamation do? What other historical significance does that battle hold?

The Battle of Antietam. All slaves within rebel territory would be freed on January 1, 1863, unless southern states returned to the Union. It was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. More died on that day than in the history of the US.

4. After which battle was it realized by both sides that the war would not be brief?

The Battle of Manassas, or the Battle of Bull Run.

5. Why do many Civil War battles have two names?

The North names battles after nearby creeks or rivers and the South named them after nearby towns.

17. What was the Confederate policy of impressment?

They authorized armies to seize food, supplies, and even slaves for use in the war effort.

35. In the end, the North won for what three reasons?

They had integrated the breakthroughs of the Market Revolution better than the South had. Union has more men. Lincoln gathered more widespread support for the war than did Jefferson Davis.

16. How did the Confederacy raise money?

They printed more and more money, income tax, and impressment.

16. How did the North raise funds for the war effort?

They rose tariffs, income tax, other taxes, and selling war-bonds.

23. What was the issue of treating runaway slaves as contraband?

They treated them as smuggled goods, refusing to return them to their owners.

How did the north go about raising an army?

Through the Draft. They could get a substitute or pay $300. They also had volunteers. It was a rich man's war, a poor man's fight.

14. How did the south go about raising an army?

Volunteers and occupational exemptions.