Geography
Side with numerical supremacy in factories, population, railroads and food production
Union
Confederate General in charge of the CSA armies; surrendered to the Union in 1865
Robert E. Lee
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Side that ran out of food and supplies by 1865
Confederacy
Rounding to the nearest 100,000--- the CURRENT estimates for Civil War deaths
700,000
Location of Confederate capitol
Richmond, VA
Name of the Union's snake-like "strangulation" strategy
Anaconda Plan
Two new states as a result of the 1820 Compromise
Missouri
Maine
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The infamous group established by former Confederates to maintain racial separation and white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
or
KKK
Location of the first shots fired in the Civil War
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Southern name for the torn and bend railroad lines that Union troops destroyed during the war
"Sherman's neckties"
Supreme Court Case that ruled blacks were not citizens and had no rights under U. S. law
Dred Scott Case
Union General who advocated and applied "Total War" tactics in the Civil War
William Tecumseh Sherman
Organization established to help freed people receive education, jobs and housing
The Freedman's Bureau
Nation the CSA believed would join them as allies in the fight against the Union
England
or
Britain
Black soldiers made up 10% of the Union army by 1865.
Identify 3 ways in which they were treated differently from white soldiers
- lower pay (10 compared to 13$)
- given most dangerous positions in battle
- given the worst jobs, weapons, supplies
- segregated / under command of white officers
- not considered for promotion
Two of John Brown's goals at Harper's Ferry
Take weapons from arsenal
Free Slaves
Begin rebellion (Civil War)
Assassin of President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Rounding to the closest million, how many enslaved people were freed as a result of the Civil War
4 million
The "border states".
Maryland
Kentucky
Delaware
Missouri
(note: after 1863, West Virginia, too)
Identify 3 of Lincoln's positions on the question of slavery during the Civil War
-emancipation /abolition
-free or slave as long as union preserved
-remove black Americans (to Africa or Central America)
-allow slavery for 40 years if CSA ceases fight
The four candidates in the 1860 Election.
Lincoln
Bell
Brekenridge
Douglass
Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Name and correctly describe the purpose of the three amendments that advanced racial equality as a result of the Civil War
13 = ended slavery
14 = citizenship (or equality under law)
15 = black male suffrage