history final study Flashcards
(43 cards)
Harriet Tubman
- led troops into combat and liberated slaves
- worked as a spy for the union
Where did both armies spend the majority of the war?
On southern soil (almost the entire war was in the south)
What happened to southern civilians during the last year of the war?
- homes destroyed
- crops burned
- food taken
- animals killed
who was the union nurse who risked her life to save Union soldiers and who invented life-saving techniques during the war?
Clare Barton
Why was he an effective public speaker on slavery? (Fredrick Doughlas)
He had once been a slave, so he had credibility
Willie Lincoln
Died of typhoid fever
Why were doctors hesitant to allow women to be nurses?
They didn’t think it was appropriate for women to treat male bodies
Andersonville Prison: Why was it so deadly?
Water sources was also a sewer
* starvation
* disease
Almira Prison: Why was it so deadly?
Extreme cold caused prisoners to freeze to death
What did Lincoln call northern Democrats who were speaking out against the war?
Copperhead
What did Lincoln do to some of those northern Democrats who spoke out against the war?
he had them put in prison without a trial
The Draft in the North: who could escape being drafted?
Those who could pay $300.00
The Draft in the South: who could escape being drafted?
Those who had 20 or more slaves, or who could buy their way out
What did the poor people on both sides say about the war after the draft began?
“It is a ________ man’s war, and a ________ man’s fight!”
“it’s a __rich__ man’s war, and a __poor__ man’s fight”
first shots of the war were fired where?
Fort Sumter
Border states: how were they different from the states that seceded?
they were allowed to keep slavery and form a border between north and south
Why did southerners go to war?
For families, towns, and states
Why did northerners go to war?
to preserve the union
Emancipation Proclamation: What did it do, specifically?
It freed the slaves in the revel states that seceded from the union
Emancipation Proclamation: what was the result?
500,000 slaves ran to union army camps in 16 months
200,000 joined the union military
How did the Emancipation Proclamation weaken the South?
It practically ended food and weapon production
What were the first modern battleships called? What did those ships do to all other world navies?
Ironclads
- they made all wooden warships obsolete (-> no longer produced or used)
What advance in technology made the Civil War much deadlier than earlier American wars?
The minie ball had more range and power than earlier bullets
Why were there riots in southern cities in the last two years of the war?
women rioted over lack of food
