Civil War

Question 1

Northern VS Southern population

Answer 1

22 million to 9 million

South also had 4 million slaves

Question 2

North VS South agriculture

Answer 2

N:4 times mor wheat, 3 times more farm acreage
S:24 times more cotton

Question 3

North VS South military

Answer 3

2/3 of West Point graduates in North

Question 4

Conscription rate 1864

Answer 4

44% of North to 90% of South

Question 5

North VS South Industrialisation

Answer 5

North manufactured more than 90% of goods
94% of pig iron
90% of coal and armament
14 times more textile, 30 times more boots

Question 6

North VS South Railway

Answer 6

20,000 compared to 10,000 mile

Question 7

North VS South Navy

Answer 7

90 ships and 8800 men
Expanded 10 times under Gideon Welles
South had 300 officers

Question 8

Northern Fianance

Answer 8

1 million Northerners owned shares in debt
2/3 of revenue by bonds
1/5 revenue by tax

Question 9

Northern monetary policies

Answer 9

Internal Revenue Act 1862: progressive tax, excise tax on sin items
Legal Tender Act 1862: 150 million of paper currency
Inflation under 80%

Question 10

Growth of US navy

Answer 10

260 ships on blockade with 100 under construction by 1861

Expanded 10 times by 1865

Question 11

Peninsula Campaign casualty

Answer 11

McCllelan vs Johnston vs Lee

23,000 of Union to 30,000 Confederayrd

Question 12

Battle of Antietam Sept 1862

Answer 12

Lee Vs McCllelan

14,000 of Union and 10,000 of Confederate

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

Antietam ended on 18th Sep 1862, EP on 22nd of Sept

Question 14

Battle of Gettysburg July 1863

Answer 14

Meade vs Lee

23,000 of Union, 28,000 of Confederates (6,000 in Pickett’s charge)

Question 15

Vicksburg 4th July 1863

Answer 15

Grant vs Johnston
Siege of 47 days
10,000 Union, 8500 Confederates and 30,000 surrendering

Question 16

Southern Decentralisation

Answer 16

Joseph Brown Georgiaresist drat with exemptions and impressment
Zebulon Vance of North Carolina opposed movement of resources within the state

Question 17

Southern Finance

Answer 17

5000% inflation form 1861-65

Question 18

Southern use of blockade runners

Answer 18

1/3 weapons in, 1/3 of cotton out

75% effective

Question 19

Vallandigham Case

Answer 19

Campaigning for Ohio, Southern sympathiser
Tried in military court and sentenced to imprisonment
Lincoln supported army but exiled Vallandigham

Question 20

Milligan Case

Answer 20

Peace democrat in Indiana tried to liberate PoW

Eventually released

Question 21

NY Draft Riot

Answer 21

1863 Conscription Act 120 dead

20,000 troops to suppress

Question 22

Confederate cotton embargo

Answer 22

4 million to 300,000 bales in 1864

Question 23

Sherman’s March

Answer 23

425 miles long, 60 miles wide

100 million destruction

Question 24

Military Reconstruction

Answer 24

20,000 federal troops

Question 25

Freemen Bureau

Answer 25

food, water, education
5 million dollars o set up schools
90,000 slaves enrolled by 1865
15 million rations of food
Understaffed with 900 agents at epaks

Question 26

Black contribution to war

Answer 26

180,000 in army
25,000 in navy
10% of Union forces

Question 27

Blacks in office

Answer 27

2 black senators

15 representatives

Question 28

Sharecropping and Crop linen

Answer 28

2/3 - 3/4 of harvest to tenant
1/3 were black
37% of interest charged on equipment

Question 29

Post war SOuthern Economy

Answer 29

Production rose from 4 million to 6 million bales in 1880 yet its % of wealth fropped 30%
1870, South had 2/5 of North’s income

Question 30

Memphis and New Orleans Race Riot

Answer 30

1866 Memphis 46 killed, 75 injured

1866 New Orleans 34 killed, 119 injured

Question 31

Grant’s 3 major policies

Answer 31

KKK Act and Force Act 1871

Amnesty Act 1872