Battles
What battle displayed the true strength of the Confederacy to the Union?
The Battle of Bull Run
Name this Union president from 1861 to 1865.
Abraham Lincoln
What institution was squashed in the western world as a result of the Civil War?
Slavery
Who ran as the Democratic candidate for president in the Election of 1864?
George B. McClellan
What act of war was committed by the Union to suffocate the Confederate economy?
blockade
What critical battle gave the Union the effective victory and stalled foreign powers from getting involved in the war?
Battle of Antietam
Name this general who successfully captured Richmond in his Wildlands Campaign.
Ulysses S. Grant
What period followed the Civil War?
Reconstruction
What political group heavily criticized Lincoln’s handling of the war and were particularly popular in the “Butternut” region?
Copperhead Democrats
Name the famous Union unit that consisted mostly of African-Americans.
54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
What move made in battle marked the climax of the Confederate offensive into the Union?
Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg
Name this assassin of Abraham Lincoln who killed him in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
What was the total, direct monetary cost of the war (excluding continuous expenditures)?
$15 billion
What was the primary goal of the Union Party during the election of 1864?
To unite the War Democrats and Republicans so that Lincoln might win re-election.
What and who did the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of War criticize?
Lincoln and his handling of the war and emancipation
What battle was the turning point in the war for the Union?
The Battle of Gettysburg
Name the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
What two political “plagues” were “cured” with the victory of the Union?
Nullification and secession
Why did the Emancipation Proclamation only apply to Confederate states?
Emancipation within the Union without approval from the states would have upset the border states.
Name the final battle that enabled Sherman’s March won by General Grant.
Battle of Chattanooga
List at least three points of the Union’s total war strategy.
(1) blockade the south from trading; (2) liberate the slaves of the Confederacy; (3) split the Confederacy via the Mississippi; (4) sweep through Georgia and the Carolinas; (5) capture Richmond; (6) attack everywhere to grind the Confederacy into submission
Name this general who led the Union march into Georgia and into the Carolinas.
William Tecumseh Sherman
What did the Union’s triumph demonstrate to the rest of the world in terms of politics?
That democracy could prevail through sectional conflict and endure for a long time
Describe the reaction of southerners to Lincoln’s assassination from the day of through to Reconstruction.
Initially celebrated but would come to realize that Lincoln was particularly kind to the South, losing someone sympathetic in the government when he would have served during the Reconstruction
Where did General Lee surrender after Grant’s Wilderness Campaign?