Civil War Battles
What was the first major battle of the Civil War? Where was it fought?
First Manassas or Bull Run, it was fought near Manassas Junction in Northern Virginia
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? What was his goal in the war?
Jefferson Davis, and his aim was to preserve the independence and continued existence of the Confederate States of America
Where did Robert E. Lee at last surrender?
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
What was Abraham Lincoln’s original goal in waging war?
To maintain the union between North and South
Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Abraham Lincoln?
Because he wanted to strike a blow for The Confederate States of America
Where was the last battle of the Civil War fought? Who won?
Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville Texas, It was a Confederate Victory
Name one advantage the Union had over the Confederacy in the war. Name one advantage the Confederacy had over the Union.
More men, more industrial output, as well as a Navy
Cotton and agricultural products to trade with europe for arms, the motivation of the soldiers fighting for their homes and lifestyle
Who was the general who successfully commanded Federal armies in the West and later became commander of the Grand Army of the Republic?
Ulysses S. Grant
What right did Lincoln remove from people in Maryland to make sure their state did not secede from the union?
Habeas Corpus
Which four states, though slave states, did not secede from the Union?
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri
What battle gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
The battle of Sharpsburg of Antietam
Why was the battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia so significant?
It was the first battle between Ironclad ships, powered by steam rather than sails.
What was General Thomas Jonathan Jackson commonly called and why?
"Stonewall Jackson" because he stood like a stone wall and stopped the federal advance at the first BAttle of Bull Run
What was Lincoln’s strategy for the Federal army and navy in the war?
The Anaconda Strategy, wanted to use squeeze the South into submission
Whom didn’t the Emancipation Proclamation emancipate? Whom did the Emancipation Proclamation emancipate?
It emancipated the slaves in southern states, but not slaves in border states remaining in the Union
What battle ended Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What were Lincoln’s plans for “reconstruction” of the southern states after the war? How was Louisiana an example of what he wanted?
Lincoln's plans for reconstruction would allow a state to establish a state government with a new constitution if only ten percent of its citizens swore allegiance to the union.
Louisiana had done this and had even approved emancipation, established public schools for both whites and blacks, had empowered the state's legislators to give freedmen the right to vote, and approved the proposed 13th Amendment that would abolish slavery throughout the nation.
What did General Robert E. Lee rename his army when he fought McClellan at Richmond? Why?
The Army of Northern Virginia, because he wanted to drive the Yankees away from Richmond and out of Virginia completely.
Did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation simply because he was opposed to slavery? Please explain
He wanted to end the war, northerners were growing tired of of the war so Lincoln wanted to shift the focus of the war to build motivation for the North.
How did Abraham Lincoln keep Maryland from seceding? What measure did Chief Justice Roger Taney object to and why?
Lincoln ordered the suspension of the right to habeas corpus so that the military could arrest anyone it thought dangerous without the courts interfering.
Chief Justice Taney objected to this suspension: the Constitution, Taney said, only gave Congress the power to suspend habeas corpus. The president could not do so.
Why was the consequence of the Confederate loss at Vicksburg for the Confederacy?
It gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River splitting the confederate states in two east and west.
Who objected to Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction, and how did they show their objection?
Despite all this, Republicans in Congress had refused to admit representatives from the state. Members of his own party, Lincoln lamented, opposed his reconstruction plans.
Name the Federal general who lay waste to Georgia, from Atlanta to the sea.
General William Tecumseh Sherman
When did Abraham Lincoln give his Gettysburg Address, and why?
On November 19, 1863, Lincoln delivered a speech at Gettysburg to dedicate a cemetery to the Federal dead. This “Gettysburg Address” encapsulated Lincoln's vision of the federal union-that it was
founded, not on race or culture, but on a proposition: “that all men are created equal."
It is this belief that, in Lincoln's mind, defined the United States of America. The war for Lincoln had great significance for both the United States and the world: if “the government of the people, by the people, and for the people" did not survive sectional controversies in the United States, where else could it flourish?
Referring to 400-What similar measures did Lincoln take against “Copperheads” in the North?
Opposition to the war in the North by numerous “Copperheads” caused Lincoln to pursue the same policy. He established martial law in the northern states, suspending the right of habeas corpus for those who encouraged resistance to enlistment or were “guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to the rebels.”