Chapter 15 Hist 139
Initially the Confederacy sought King Cotton diplomacy, a strategy based on the belief that
European nations need for cotton would lead them to support the Confederacy.
Which statement describes the fighting between Generals Grant and Lee in Virginia in May and June of 1864?
Fighting was savage. More Union soldiers died than Southern.
Which general won the battle of Gettysburg?
General George Mead
Who led the Union forces to victory at the Battle of Shiloh?
General Grant
Why did President Lincoln choose not to make the Civil War a struggle over slavery>
He doubted his power to tamper with the "domestic institutions" of any state
What was the result of strikes by workers in northern industries during the Civil War?
Rarely succseed
What was the capital city of the Confederacy in 1863?
Richmond, Virginia
What was General William T. Sherman's strategy for defeating the Confederates in Georgia in 1864?
Scorched earth
What was the result of the Battle of Vicksburg in July 1863?
The Union took control of the Mississippi river from the confederacy
What was the significance of the Battle of Shiloh?
The Union victory ruined the Confederacy's chances to take control of the West.
What did southern clergymen think about the Civil War?
They believed God had blessed slavery and the new nation.
Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as
a military necessity
What happened in the loyal border states joined the Confederacy?
Violent Pro-southern minority remained sympathetic to southern cause.
What promoted an Irish-led riot that took the lives of at least 105 people in New York City in the summer of 1863?
the newly enacted draft law.
Why did some states in the Upper South opt for secession from the Union?
Because they couldn't see themselves fighting fellow southerners and felt betrayed when Lincoln promised to maintain a peaceful state.
How did slaves use the chaos and turmoil of the Civil War to whittle away away at their bondage?
By employing various means to undermine white mastery and expand control over their own lives.
What event marked the unofficial beginning of armed hostilities between the north and south in April 1861?
Confederates firing on Fort Sumter.
What was the purpose of the second Confiscation Act, passed by Congress on July 17, 1862?
The act freed the slaves of rebel masters.
Why did the South experience greater inflation than the north during the Civil War?
The confederacy printed more money.
What irony emerges when considering the wartime leadership of Abe Lincoln and Jefferson Davis>
The inexperienced Lincoln proved to be a more adept leader than Davis.
What did Lincoln consider the biggest obstacle to the acceptance of emancipation in the Union?
The northerners that freed the slaves would flood the north. Compete for jobs and try to socially mix.
Why did white southerners from all classes enlist to fight Yankees?
They wanted to ensure blacks remained subordinate to whites.
Why did southerners believe they had a real chance of winning the Civil War?
Southern men thought they were physically stronger than Northern men
How did President Lincoln attempt to stifle opposition to the Civil War?
Suppressed free speech.
What was the purpose of the 1862 Homestead Act?
It offered westward land if you lived and farmed
What problem did President Lincoln face during the election of 1864?
Democrats almost won.
In March 1862, Congress tilted toward emancipating slaves when it
forbade the practice or return slaves to their masters.
How did northerners view the Civil War once it began?
As a struggle to preserve the Union and uphold the constitution.
Why did the "Twenty-negro law" enrage many white southerners during the Civil War?
Because it exempted from military service one white man on every plantation with 20 plus slaves.
Who went on to found the Red Cross after serving as a nurse in Union battlefield units during the Civil War?
Clara Barton
What was the significance of the first battle at Manassas (or Bull Run) in July 1861?
It demonstrated that Americans were in for a real war, one that wouldn't be quick or easy.
What disadvantage did the South face when it came to supplying the Confederate armies?
It lacked the resources available to the North.
What was the significance of the conflict between the Virginia and the Monitor?
It marked the birth of the ironclad warship.
Why did President Lincoln criticize General George B. McClellan early in the war?
McClellan had amassed a huge military force but refused to attack.
Which statement describes African American's experiences in the Union army?
Segregated units and they were payed less
Most northerners viewed secession as
an attack on the rule of
Under General Ulysses S. Grant's leadership, the Union armies
became a sufisticated war machine.
How many of the fifteen slaves states joined the Confederacy?
eleven
Despite their ideological commitment to states' rights and limited government, Confederate leaders
expanded their power by drafting soldiers into the confederate army and confiscating large amounts of property for war debt.
Women served which of the following roles during the Civil War?
government secretary
At the end of 1862, the eastern theater of the Civil War
had reached a stalemate.
When did the Civil war ended, President Lincoln was confident that
his postwar burdens would weigh almost as heavily as those of wartime.
Aside from leading to the legal destruction of slavery, the Civil War itself helped destroy slavery in practice because
it was disrupted.
After his victory at Chattanooga, TN, in 1864, General Ulysses S. Grant
launched a massive military campaign
Republicans generated the economic power they needed to fight a successful war in the early 1860s by
revolutionizing U.S. banking, monetary and tax structures.
In his inaugural address, President Lincoln revealed that he hoped to avoid disunion by
taking measures to stop the spread of secession.
The bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred September 17, 1862, at
the Battle of Antietam
Why did King Cotton diplomacy fail?
the Union convinced France and Great Britain to buy cotton from Egypt instead of the Confederacy
