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Chapter 10-11
Which was the first Southern state to secede?
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What was the Confederate capitol city?
Richmond, Virginia
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Which were the four border slave states that were undecided as to weather to secede or not?
Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Delaware
Chapter 12-13
Why did Lincoln like General Grant?
Grant would get out there and fight the battles and even win!
Chapter 12-13
Why did President Lincoln have to fire General George McClellan?
Chapter 10-11
How was West Virginia created?
What city was McClellan supposed to capture and why?
Richmond, Virginia because it was the Confederacy's capitol and one of the few industrial cities of the South
Chapter 18-20
Why do so many of the battles of the Civil War have two names?
The Union army normally named battles for the nearby bodies of water, and the Confederacy named battles for the town they were nearby
Chapter 18-20
What positive things did General McClellan do for the Union army?
He taught the army of 100,000 men how to march, fight, camp and be well supplied
Chapter 12-13
Why did Robert E. Lee turn down Lincoln's offer of being in command of the whole Union army?
He was born in Virginia and was loyal to his home state
Chapter 12-13
What did Robert E. Lee think of the reasons for the Great War?
He did not like slavery and had freed all his slaves before there war; he was also not very supportive of states' rights as opposed to the federal government, but he felt his primary duty was to "his people" and Virginia
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Why was Maryland so strategic?
Because it surrounded Washington DC on three sides; if Maryland had seceded, Washington would have been completely surrounded and indefensible
Chapter 16-17
Why was this considered the first modern war?
It no longer consisted of orderly, controlled fighting between armies and aimed solely at military targets. Cities were destroyed and no part of the population was safe.
Chapter 18-20
The old Union ship, The Merrimack, had been sunk. What did the Confederates do with it?
They salvaged it and covered it with iron; they figured an ironclad ship would be neither as fragile nor as flammable as a wooden one
Chapter 16-17
What role did hot air balloons play in the war?
They took spies over enemy lines to look down and try to determine enemy plans
Chapter 16-17
What did the government do when men no longer were excited to join the armies to fight?
They offered cash rewards for signing up; when that no longer worked the instituted a draft that forced men to join and fight
Why has it been called a rich man's war but a poor man's fight?
Because the wealth generally controlled the governments and were given opportunities to buy their way out of service on the front lines
Chapter 16-17
How significant was sickness to the armies during the war?
It was a greater problem than the battles were themselves. Twice as many men died from disease as from bullet wounds on injuries on the battlefield.
Chapter 18-20
What strategy did the Confederate army use to fool McClellan into thinking they were a huge army?
They marched noisily in and out of the woods in a circle to make it seem as though there were many soldiers.
Chapter 14-15
What went wrong with the South's plan for obtaining supplies?
They did not know that England had a surplus of cotton in its warehouses; also when the Union army began blockading Southern ports, the British were not interested in interfering.
What happened at the battle near Chancellorsville, Virginia?
Confederate troops, led by Robert E. Lee, were far outnumbered, but won the battle. However, Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot in the arm by one of his own men. That wound would eventually lead to his death.
Chapter 18-20
What happened at the battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg)?
It was the bloodiest battle of the war, but when it was over McClellan had stopped Robert E. Lee's troops. this was a turning point because the North had finally won a battle and it stopped Lee from inflicting great damage on the North while on his way to Pennsylvania.
Chapter 14-15
How was life different ini the North and South?
the North was an industrializing urban society with a number of opportunities for the lower echelons of society; the South was an agriculture and still highly class-conscious society with the greatest opportunities for wealthy whites
Chapter 18-20
What went wrong with McClellan's plans when trying to capture Richmond?
He was a timid and cautious person who did not attack when he had the advantage. Because he waited, the Confederate army had warning of the attack and was able to organize an attack on the Union army first. The rain also made it difficult to travel and march that year.
Chapter 10-11
Why did Lincoln consider it especially important to retain Kentucky in the Union?
The Ohio River, which runs through Kentucky, was important for moving armies and supplies; if Kentucky seceded it would create a terrible transportation problem
Chapter 14-15
What were the South's disadvantages in fighting the war?
It was an agriculture society focused on a few cash crops and trade rather than self-sufficiency; therefore, meat, vegetables and grains were scarce the relative lack of industrial capacity meant there was a lack of other basic supplies from armament to shoes; transportation was neither as common nor as good as in the north
Chapter 14-15
Where did President Davis think the South was going to get it's supplies?
England had always traded supplies for southern cotton, so the south assumed its supplies would keep coming from England.
Chapter 10-11
Who was John Brown?
The man who led a coup that hacked 5 proslavery men to death in Kansas in 1856; he tried to start a slave revolution at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859; he was captured, tried, ground guilty and hanged
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What caused the battle at Fort Sumter?
South Carolina seceded from he Union and demanded that the fort be turned over to the new Confederate government. President Lincoln refused and sent a supply ship for the men in the fort. The Confederates fired upon the ship and Fort Sumter and destroyed them.
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What advantages did the Southern soldiers have over the Northern soldiers?
Southern soldiers were more used to shooting, riding horses and being outside in rough circumstances than were the Northerners; also, the Southerners had a personal reason for fighting hard, they were fighting for their land and livelihood