Transcript of What did the early battles of the Civil War show?
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What did the early battles of the Civil War show?
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The need for well trained soldiers
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Which was a greater risk, combat or infection and disease?
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Infection and disease were greater
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How did slaves in the South contribute to the Union war
effort?
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They refused to work on the plantations
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How did African Americans in the Union Army contribute to the
war effort?
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They fought in major battles by 1863
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Were all of the slaves in the United States freed AFTER the
Civil War?
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YES
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Why did the Civil War mark a major turning point in American
History?
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Americans began to think of the country as one nation rather
than a confederation of states.
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Which side won both the battles of Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville?
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Both were a stunning Confederate victory
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Who would have been most likely to disapprove of the
Emancipation Proclamation?
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Southern Planters
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Why did Lincoln handle the slavery issue cautiously at the
beginning of the Civil War?
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Because he wanted the border states to remain with the
Union
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What plan did Grant have for ending the war?
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Destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy (TOTAL
WAR)
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Who was the president of the confederacy during the Civil
War?
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Jefferson Davis
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What river did the Union plan to take control of as a strategy
for winning the Civil War?
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Mississippi River
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What was the Norths one official goal at the start of the Civil
War?
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Keep the Union together
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What did both sides realize during the early days of the Civil
War?
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Their hopes for a short was was unrealistic
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What was one effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
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It added the abolition of slavery in the South to the Unions
war goals
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What economic problem did both the North and the South
experience during the Civil War?
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Inflation
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How did the South deal with economic problems during the
war?
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Plantations grew food crops
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The Confederate States of America was form in what year?
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1861
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What conflict arose in 1848 in western territories over the
issue of slavery?
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If slaves would be allowed in the lands added from the Mexican
Cession
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What is the historical significance of Fort Sumter, South
Carolina?
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Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War
there.
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What was the effect of the Missouri Compromise?
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It balanced the number of free and slaves states for almost 30
years
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What was the first state to secede from the Union?
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South Carolina
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The 54 th Massachusetts Regiment lost over half its number
trying to take this fort:
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Fort Wagner
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A person who wanted to end slavery completely was called
a:
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Abolitionist
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This novel described the evils of slavery and helped turn
peoples attitudes against slavery:
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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What was significance of the battle of Vicksburg?
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Gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the
Confederacy in two.
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This city was captured by the Union (Sherman) at Christmas
time, 1864 (It was given to Lincoln as a Christmas Present)
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Savannah, GA
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Put these in correct order Abe Lincoln elected Missouri
Compromise Firing on Fort Sumter
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Missouri Compromise Abe Lincoln elected Firing on Fort
Sumter
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Lincolns election brought a strong reaction in the:
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South
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Why did the Dred Scott decision shock many Americans?
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It declared slaves were property in the same way that horses
and sheep were property
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Proslavery settlers who battled the antislavery forces in
Kansas were known as
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Border Ruffians
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This man assassinated Abe Lincoln in April, 1865
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John Wilkes Booth
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This general led a March to Sea
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William Sherman
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What led to the violence in Kansas in 1855?
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The rivalry between proslavery and antislavery settlers
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Henry Clays plan that allowed California to enter the Union as
a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession in the
territories of New Mexico and Utah.
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Compromise of 1850
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What slaves were not covered under the terms of the
Emancipation Proclamation?
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Slaves in the border states that stayed with the Union.
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How did southerners react to Abe Lincolns election?
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Seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States
of America