Important People
Who formed the Red Cross after the Civil War?
Clara Barton
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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In what battle did the South think the opposing side was inferior but ended up loosing?
The Battle of Bull Run
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the main idea of the Anaconda Plan?
It blocked the Southern imports/ exports and it would allow them to control the Mississippi River, splitting the confederacy into two. It would also allow them to capture Richmond, the Confederate Capital.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the major effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.
It ended slavery, but only for the people who lived in the North, so it didn't end slavery for everyone.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the economy like in the South after the Civil War?
The Plantations destroyed during the war which caused a agrarian decline.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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Who denied Lincoln's request to leading the Union?
Robert E. Lee
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the outcome of the battle at Fort Sumter?
Union Major Anderson surrendered.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the North's role in the Anaconda plan?
To destroy transportation, to block off all communication which would diminish Confederate tactics.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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Which act gave citizens and future citizens 160 acres of public land only for a small registration fee? This act also spurred economic growth.
Homestead Act
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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Inflation had a major effect on both sides due to the amount of currency being printed. What event could this have most likely influenced?
The national bank act of 1863
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Who had a prison that was originally built to only hold 10,000 people but, ended up holding around 45,000 people?
The Anderson Prison
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What battle did Mc Clellan feel hesitant and why did he feel this way?
The battle of Antienam.
He was under the impression that the confederate army was actually stronger than they truly were.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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North or South?
Which side had more knowledge on the land, had good defensive war side, and had more training as soldiers?
The South
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What legislation was passed by the senate that abolished slavery with in the United States or any place subject to its jurisdiction?
The 13th Amendment
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How did the 13th amendment effect the Civil War?
It abolished Slavery within the United States
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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Who was the 16th President that prosecuted the Civil War and also played a huge role in ending slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was so important about the Battle of Antietam?
Most importantly, Union victory at Antietam provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he had wanted to announce the emancipation of proclamation, making the battle of Antietam one of the key turning points of the American Civil War.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What caused the South to take a defensive stance in the Civil War rather than use an offensive stance?
The South wanted to keep its territory and secede from the Union so a defensive strategy would be better serve to protect their land.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What act was passed to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to Southern Unionists and newly freed African American slaves?
The Freedmen's Bureau Act passed on March 3, 1865 stipulated that 40 acres of abandoned or Compton skated land could be leased to each freed man or Southern Unionist, with an option to buy after three years.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was the economy and/or the lifestyle in the North like post the American Civil War?
The North was prosperous after the Civil War due to the economic growth that arose from weapon and food production by factories and farms during the war itself.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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Who was a American bondwoman who escaped slavery in the South? Who left to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War?
The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward.
A) Clara Barton
B) Harriet Tubman
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Elizabeth Blackwell
B
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What affect did the Battle of Shiloh have? And what was the main purpose of this battle?
A) To allow Confederate soldiers to enter the Union
B) To pick daises
C) To allow the Union to successfully to stop the Confederacy from blocking the Union
C
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What did they hope to accomplish with the strategies stated in the letter?
We rely greatly on the sure operation of a complete blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf ports soon to commence. In connection with such blockade we propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the ocean, with a cordon of posts at proper points, and the capture of Forts Jackson and Saint Philip; the object being to clear out and keep open this great line of communication in connection with the strict blockade of the seaboard, so as to envelop the insurgent States and bring them to terms with less bloodshed than by any other plan.
A)To block ports of the South
B) To pass the 13th amendment
C) To take a long vacation to the Atlantic and Gulf ports
D) To vouch for women's Rights
A
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was Lincoln's main purpose of writing this address?
But, In a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it. The world will little no longer remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here bare thus far so nobly advanced.
- Abraham Lincoln
A) To honor the soldiers who fought in the Civil War
B) To eradicate slavery
C) To give women a voice
D) To bring the country together and to emphasis his view on the purpose of America
D
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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What was on of the Major effects that the Civil War had on women's Rights?
A) To serve men during the War
B) To support the abolition of slavery
C) To serve as spies and nurses in the War
D) Both B & C
D
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-e8nCCjv7VNx5-8D7SgW3dDdQyFxQ8zIieGm8cnX7o/edit
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