Antebellum, Civil War and Reconstruction: the Civil War

Question 1

Original goal of the Civil War at the beginning

Answer 1

Preserve the Union

Question 2

Anaconda Plan

Answer 2

blockade ports, cut off supplies, capture the Mississippi River, divide the South

Question 3

Advantage of the North over the South during the war:

Answer 3

-North had better population and economy

-North armies and leadership improve over time

-South has limited leadership and resources

-South believes if they defend they will win

Question 4

George B. McClellan

Answer 4

-General for the Union

-cautious, bad

Question 5

How was the Civil War divided?

Answer 5

-Easter Theater
-Union: many generals
-Confederate: Robert E. Lee

-Western Theater
-Union: Ulysses S. Grant

Question 6

Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 6

Confederate army led by Lee (Eastern Theater)

Question 7

Army of the Potomac

Answer 7

Union army led by various generals (Eastern Theater)

Question 8

What did the Battle of Bull Run prove?

Answer 8

the Civil War would be long and brutal

Question 9

What did the Battle of Antietam prove?

Answer 9

Lincoln started the idea of the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 10

Homestead Act

Answer 10

Congress gave 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land

Question 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 11

-ends slavery in Confederate territories

-changes the Union’s goal of the war (win the war!)

Question 12

Monitor (North) v. Merrimac (South)

Answer 12

first naval battle in history between two ironclad ships

Question 13

Trent Affair

Answer 13

-North fires upon British vessel carrying Southern
diplomats

-Lincoln avoids war with Britain by releasing the diplomats

Question 14

Why do border states stay in the Union?

Answer 14

because of the Emancipation Proclamation and Federal troops

Question 15

How was the Democratic Party spilt in 1864?

Answer 15

-War Democrats: supported Lincoln

-Copperheads: wanted Lincoln to negotiate peace to end the war

Question 16

Enrollment Act

Answer 16

the first effort at a draft among the northerners during the Civil War

Question 17

What did Grant’s Overland Campaign show?

Answer 17

Grant’s willingness to tirelessly attack the ever-dwindling Army of Northern Virginia.

Question 18

Lincoln suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

What was the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

Answer 18

Arrests made without those being informed of their reason for being arrested

Question 19

1863 Conscription Act

Answer 19

Draft in America
-you could pay $100 to get out of it
-but some people couldn’t afford it
-riots showed frustration

Question 20

Greenbacks

Answer 20

-paper money back by nothing that financed the war

-leads to new National Banking System

Question 21

What is the importance of the Siege of Petersburg?

Answer 21

-determines if the South can control Richmond

-which will determine outcome of the War

Question 22

Importance of the Siege of Vicksburg?

Answer 22

-Grant captured the Mississippi

-Grant soon became General of the Union