Study Guide for the Chapter 16/17 Test – Civil War

People:

General Lee

General U.S. Grant

William Tecumseh Sherman – General that was given the task of TOTAL WAR through Georgia.

John Wilkes Booth

Jefferson Davis – I was the President of the C.S.A.

Abraham Lincoln

Vocabulary:

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipate

Conscription - DRAFT

Bounties

Income tax

Greenbacks – GREEN PAPER MONEY

13th Amendment

Total War

Secede -

Places:

Fort Sumter

Bull Run

Andersonville, Georgia

Gettysburg, PA

Appomattox Court House, Va

Richmond, VA

Ford’s Theater

Key Topics:

  1. Why was the Emancipation Proclamation considered to be a military action?
  2. Why didn’t Lincoln free the slaves in the border states?
  3. What were African- American’s able to after the Emancipation Proclamation? How many joined? What was the famous unit many joined?
  4. How did both northerners and southerners avoid service in the army even though they were drafted?
  5. How did the government try in entice men to join the army? Bounties.
  6. How did the North try and raise money to pay for the war? Income Tax
  7. How did women help in the war effort? Nursing/Red Cross
  8. Why did R.E. Lee change the south’s strategy and attack the north? Hoped the North would quit with a few southern victories on Northern territory. Hoped that England and France would join the Southern war effort.
  9. What was the turning point of the Battle of Gettysburg? Pickett’s Charge.
  10. Why was the surrender of Vicksburg so important to the north’s strategy of winning the war? Because they were able to take total control of the Mississippi River.
  11. What was the purpose of General Sherman’s total war in Georgia? To destroy everything and anything to could aid in the Southern war effort.
  12. What was the goal of General Grant in his campaign against Lee in Virginia? To fight Lee every chance he could. To reduce the size of Lee’s army so they would have to surrender.
  13. What was the peace agreement at Appomattox Court House? It ended the war for both sides. Grant offered generous peace terms to the South.
  14. What was the 13th Amendment? Outlawed slavery in the USA
  15. Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Lincoln? Payback for what he believed Lincoln did to the south during the Civil War.
  16. What were some of the consequences of the war? 620,000 Dead, South economy’s in ruin, North economic prosperity, Increased power and control of the federal government (Income tax)
  17. What general did Lincoln bring to the East to fight Lee’s army? General Grant
  18. What general waged Total War on the state of Georgia during the Civil War? General Sherman
  19. What were green backs? Green paper money.
  20. What was the South’s strategy of King Cotton? Hope that France and England would join their cause for the need of cotton.
  21. What was the Anaconda Plan, explain its goals? Northern strategy. Blockade the coast, capture Mississippi River, capture Richmond.
  22. What were the strengths of the North? Population, money, RRs, Navy, factories,
  23. What were the strengths of the South? Generals, fighting for homes, defensive war.
  24. After the battle of Bull Run what did it show about the prospects of the length of the war? Long and bloody.
  25. What were some of the problems of the soldiers while they lived in camps during the war? Hygiene
  26. Describe why the mini ball and rifle were such a deadly part of the Civil War? Made the weapons more dangerous and accurate. Especially with the use of out of date military tactics.
  27. What new ways of communication and transportation really helped the north during the Civil War? Railroad and telegraph.
  28. As a result of the battle of Antietam what did Lincoln decide to do? Lincoln saw the victory as an opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
  29. Where was Lincoln killed? Ford’s Theater, Wash D.C.
  30. What was the purpose of the 13th Amendment? To free the slaves.
  31. How did inflation in America effect people in the USA during the Civil War?
  32. What general became famous at Bull Run? What was his nickname? What happened to him?
  33. Why did Lincoln not want to give up FORT SUMPTER to the Confederates?