Chapter 17 Study Guide

Question 1

What were border states?

Answer 1

Were divided over the issue of slavery

Question 2

Which side had the larger army?

Answer 2

North

Question 3

What was the main goal for the North at the beginning of the war?

Answer 3

Reunite the country

Question 4

What was the name of the Union war plan to choke out the Confederacy?

Answer 4

Anaconda Plan

Question 5

What was the main goal for the South in the Civil War?

Answer 5

Preserve their way of life

Question 6

How did both sides name battles in the Civil War?

Answer 6

South named battles after cities and North named battles after rivers and landmarks

Question 7

What was the first major battle of the Civil War?

Answer 7

Bull Run

Question 8

Who were the two generals of this battle?

Answer 8

General Irvin Mcdowell and P.G.T Beauregard

Question 9

Why did the Confederate troops become inspired during this battle?

Answer 9

Reinforcements

Question 10

Who was one of the most gifted tactical commanders in US History?

Answer 10

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 11

What caused the Union troops to drop their weapons and retreat in this battle?

Answer 11

Confederates led out a loud and strange scream, a rebel yell, that terrified them

Question 12

What was the capital of the CSA?

Answer 12

Richmond, Virginia

Question 13

Why did the Confederate troops not pursue the fight after their victory at Bull
Run?

Answer 13

They were too disorganized and weakened

Question 14

What battles gave the Union control of the Columbia and Tennessee Rivers?

Answer 14

Battle of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

Question 15

What was the warship that the South rebuilt with iron plates on the sides?

Answer 15

Merrimack

Question 16

What was the general name for iron plated ships that the South used to break
through the North’s defense?

Answer 16

Ironsides

Question 17

What was the Battle of Shiloh named after?

Answer 17

The church

Question 18

What was the single bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War?

Answer 18

The Battle of Antietam

Question 19

What did Lincoln shift his focus in the war towards after Antietam?

Answer 19

Towards taking action aganist slavery

Question 20

The Civil War was the first time thousands of women did what?

Answer 20

Served as nurses

Question 21

What were the 3 reasons the Southern economy suffered more than that of the
North?

Answer 21

Lack of industry, shortages of essential goods due to the blockade, and farmland being overun

Question 22

What did Lincoln sign on January 1st, 1863?

Answer 22

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

Who believed that the signing on Jan 1, 1863 was the greatest event in US History?

Answer 23

Frederick Douglass

Question 24

What was the most well known African-American regiment in the Civil War?

Answer 24

54th Massachusetts

Question 25

What was the turning point of the war?

Answer 25

Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Question 26

What speech was about equality, freedom, and states’ rights no longer being dominant?

Answer 26

The Gettysburg Address

Question 27

What three things was the Gettysburg Address about?

Answer 27

Delivered by president Lincoln, it was around 2 minutes in length, and was delivered in Gettysburg 4 1/2 months after the battle

Question 28

What was important about David Farragut?

Answer 28

The highest ranking officer in the Union Navy

Question 29

Where was Sherman’s “march to the sea” headed?

Answer 29

Savannah, Georgia

Question 30

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

Answer 30

In a small virginia village called Appomattox Court House

Question 31

How severe were the terms of surrender at Appomattox Court House toward the Southern troops?

Answer 31

Were very forgiving

Question 32

What treaty ended the Civil War?

Answer 32

No official treaty

Question 33

How many soldiers died in the war?

Answer 33

600,000

Question 34

How did the balance in power settle between the federal gov’t and state gov’ts after the war?

Answer 34

The federal government was strengthened and was now clearly more powerful than the states