Social Study Civil War

Question 1

What is manifest destiny?

Answer 1

God given right to move west?

Question 2

What is an abolitionist?

Answer 2

People who wants to end slavery

Question 3

What is a civil war?

Answer 3

A country fighting itself (half/half usually)

Question 4

What were some issues that divided the United States in the early/mid 1800’s

Answer 4

Westward expansion, south wants slavery north doesn’t,

Question 5

What are the major cash crops in the south?

Answer 5

Tobacco, cotton, sugar, indigo, etc

Question 6

What is the definition of tariffs

Answer 6

Taxes on imported goods

Question 7

How did the north and south feel about tariffs?

Answer 7

North wanted taxes south doesn’t

Question 8

What is sectionalism?

Answer 8

Loyal to a state or section of a country rather than the nation as a whole?

Question 9

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 9

Rights of the people

Question 10

How did the economy of the north and south differ?

Answer 10

North:industry
South:agriculture, cotton kingdom

Question 11

Why were the south strongly in support of slavery?

Answer 11

Slaves were an economic necessity in the south, they used slaves to work the large plantations

Question 12

Why did the northerners support a tariff

Answer 12

Most industry was in the south, it protected American industry from foreign competitions, it would be more expensive to buy goods that weren’t American goods

Question 13

What was the compromise of 1850

Answer 13

Presented by Henry clay, was passed to maintain the balance between slaves and free states

Question 14

What is the fugitive slave acts

Answer 14

Part of the compromise in 1850, previously passed in 1793, made it a crime to help run away slaves, abolitionist reacted in anger

Question 15

What are the goals of the Republican Party?

Answer 15

To keep slavery out of the western territories, stop it from spreading, member of the house of reps and practiced law in spring field, Illinois (Abe Lincoln republican)

Question 16

What would the southerners think about Abe Lincoln becoming president

Answer 16

They became fearful that the anti slavery republican would try to change their way of life

Question 17

Who is the president of the confederacy

Answer 17

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

What are the north and south fighting for?

Answer 18

South fights for state right and the north is against it they want a stronger central government

Question 19

What was the first manassas (bull run) July 21 1861

Answer 19

The first major land battle of the American civil war it is outside of Washington, D.C.

Question 20

What were the advantages of the north?

Answer 20

Navy, populations, manufacturing, industry, railroads, agriculture production

Question 21

What are the advantages of the south?

Answer 21

Military leader, home land, preserve their way of life (goals)

Question 22

What are the disadvantage of the north?

Answer 22

Military leaders (lack of experience), invading unfamiliar land, not prepared

Question 23

What are the disadvantage of the south?

Answer 23

Lack manufacturing, lack navy, not prepared

Question 24

What strategies did the north use to win the war?

Answer 24

Navy for blockade in the southern parts, cut off trade with Europe, seize Richmond va (confederate capital), seize control of Mississippi River (south can’t use it to transport goods)

Question 25

What were the military goals of the south?

Answer 25

Fight a defensive war, make the war last a long time so that it will become unpopular in the north, count on European money and south

Question 26

How were the civilians economically affected by the war?

Answer 26

South: limited supplies, no food, no one to sell cotton to
North: increased production of war materials, more jobs

Question 27

What were the methods of the war in 1860?

Answer 27

Single fire rifles and cannons were used, line up and march style, prisons:Anderson:1 out of 3

Question 28

How did the advances in technology make the civil war battles more deadly

Answer 28

Come shaped bullets(more accurate), new canons (fire up to 3 miles), iron clad ships (Merrimack v monitor)

Question 29

What were the medical conditions during the civil war?

Answer 29

Unclean: infections would kill you, amputation often necessary, diseases killed more than guns

Question 30

How were civilians in the north affected by the war?

Draft law

Answer 30

Draft law: all able bodied makes between 20-45 had to serve if called

Question 31

How were civilians in the north affected by the war? (Copper head)

Answer 31

Copper heads: northerners who were opposed to using force to keep the south in the union

Question 32

How were civilians in the north affected by the war? (Profiteers)

Answer 32

Profiteers: charged excessive prices for goods the government desperately needed for war

Question 33

How were civilians in the north affected by the war?

Income tax

Answer 33

Income tax: to pay for the war

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