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WAR, TERRIBLE WAR: 1860—1865
Book 6, A History Of US, Joy Hakim
1. South Carolina’s John C. Calhoun was the first to describe slavery not as a
“necessary evil” but as this. [10] _________________________
2. The number of people who died during the Civil War. [14] ______________
3. The number of Southern states that seceded from the Union. [16] ___________
4—5. The Civil War began when Southern guns opened fire on which U.S. island fort in
Charleston Harbor?
[18] ________________________
Which general led the
Confederate attack? [18] _____________________________________
6—7. The first major battle of the Civil War is known by which two names? [18]
__________________________; _____________________________
8. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous 1852 abolitionist novel, it is credited with turning
many in the North against slavery. [25] ____________________________
9. Born around 1820 a slave on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, she became the most famous
conductor on the Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped slaves to
escape to freedom. [27] _______________________________
10. Who was the first President to be born outside the original 13 states?
[34]
___________________________________
11—12. Known as the “Little Giant,” who defeated Abraham Lincoln in the famous
1858 Illinois Senate race? [41-43] ________________________________ What was
the name given to the above politician’s compromise measure on slavery (it held that the
citizens of each state or territory should have the power to determine whether or not they
wanted to have slaves)? [42] ________________________________________
13. What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were, legally, not people but
property
and
thus
not
entitled
to
any
citizenship
rights?
[43]
____________________________________
14. A house divided against itself, said Lincoln in 1858, cannot do this.
[43]
___________________
15. Like Lincoln, this President of the Confederacy was born in Kentucky.
[45]
_____________________________
16—17.
Which
Virginia
preacher
led
an
1831
slave
revolt?
[48]
___________________________ The approximate number of people who died as a
result of the revolt. [48] ____________
18. Inspired by the French Revolution, which slave had led a successful late eighteenthcentury rebellion against France that resulted in the deaths of some 60,000 and the
independence of Haiti? [49] ___________________________________
19. The Constitution had stipulated that this could not be ended before 1808. [49]
________________________
20. What was the percentage of the some 1.55 million white families in the South who
owned slaves? [50] ________________
21. What was the proportion of Southern slaveowners who had more than 10 slaves?
[51] ___________________
22—23. Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it obliged Northerners to return
slaves
to
their
owners
or
__________________________________
face
criminal
charges.
[53]
What was the approximate number of
runaway slaves living in the North by 1850? [52] _________________
24. The 1854 arrest and extradition of which fugitive slave from Boston to the South
became a rallying moment for abolitionists? [53] _______________________
25. Which Midwestern territory came to be so divided between pro-slavery and antislavery forces in the 1850s that its name temporarily gained the prefix “Bloody?”
[54] _____________________
26. He and 21 followers launched an unsuccessful attack upon the federal arsenal at
Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in 1859 in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion throughout
the South. [54-55] _____________________________
27—37. What was the first state to secede after Lincoln’s election in 1860? [59]
_________________________ Which six other Southern states seceded between the
time
of
Lincoln’s
election
_____________________;
and
the
time
of
his
_____________________;
inauguration?
[59]
_______________________;
_____________________; _______________________; ___________________ Which
four states did not secede until after Lincoln had called for volunteers to fight in the
South?
[59]
__________________________;
_________________________;
_________________________; _______________________
38. It became the capital city of the Confederacy. [59] __________________
39. The 35th state, it seceded from one of the Southern states because its small mountain
farmers felt unrepresented by the slaveowning politicians of the East.
[60]
_______________________
40—43. Which four “border states” chose to remain loyal to the Union despite their
acceptance of the institution of slavery?
[60] _______________________;
___________________; ______________________; ______________________
44. Many Southerners believed this produce would ensure that England would side with
the Confederacy in the war. [64] _________________
45. A teacher at Virginia Military Institute when the war began, he would become one
of the most famous of Confederate generals, leading the South to a series of military
successes before being killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
_______________________________________
[69-70]
46. Offered command of the Union army by Lincoln, who chose his native Virginia
instead and became the commander of the Confederate forces in the field? [70, 72]
_________________________
47. What was the phrase used by some to express the sense of unfairness associated with
wealth and the draft – Confederates who owned 20 or more slaves could be excused
from service while Northerners who could afford to do so were allowed to pay
substitutes
to
take
their
place
in
the
army?
[80]
________________________________________
48. Who captured the port of New Orleans in 1862 for the Union, thus opening the way
for eventual control of the Mississippi? [97] ______________________________
49—50. Also known as Sharpsburg, what September 17, 1862, Maryland battle became
the bloodiest day of the Civil War? [98-99] ____________________ What document
did
Lincoln
pen
in
the
Union
victory’s
aftermath?
[100]
_______________________________________
51. A nurse during the Civil War, she would found the American Red Cross in its
aftermath. [99] _____________________________
52. The term initially given by Union officers to the slaves who escaped behind
Northern lines, it implied that they were property seized from the enemy and that
they could be used to help the war effort. [104] _______________________
53—55. What was the first black regiment of soldiers to fight for the Union? [105]
_________________________
Who was the young white Bostonian colonel who
headed the unit? [105} _________________________ Their first military action was
the bayonet assault against which Charleston fortification in July 1863?
[105]
________________________
56. Approximately how many black soldiers fought for the Union army?
[105]
____________
57. After this Arkansas battle, Confederate soldiers massacred some 300 AfricanAmerican defenders of this fort. [106] ______________________
58—61. What July 1863 Pennsylvania battle represented a major Union victory and
turned back Lee’s invasion of the North? [110-16] _____________________ Which
general led the desperate charge of some 15,000 Confederates at the high point of the
battle? [113-15] __________________________________ What was the number of
Confederate casualties at the battle? [117] _______________ What was the number of
Union losses? [117] __________________
62. Which Mississippi city fell to the Union forces after a long siege on July 4, 1863?
[118] _____________________________
63. What November 1863 speech ended with the resolution that “government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?” [122-23]
___________________________________
64. What Union general led a Northern force of 120,000 men from the Wilderness
down
through
Petersburg
in
1864?
[124-25]
________________________________
65. Whose 1864 march from Atlanta to Savannah on the sea and then northward into
South Carolina and North Carolina foreshadowed the “total war” of the 20th
century in that war was waged not only on a hostile army but on a hostile people in
an attempt to destroy the ability of southern civilians to support the war? [127-29]
________________________________________________
66. Lincoln urged citizens to “bind up the nation’s wounds . . . with malice toward
none” in which famous 1865 speech? [130-32] __________________________
67. What was the tiny village at which Robert E. Lee officially surrendered to Ulysses
S. Grant in April 1865? [139] _____________________________________
68—70. The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, ended this. [139] _____________ The
14th
Amendment,
adopted
in
1868,
did
this.
[139]
_____________________________________________________________________
The
15th
Amendment,
passed
in
1870,
did
this.
[139]
_______________________________________________________________
63. Who
was
the
assassin
of
Abraham
_______________________________________
Lincoln?
[147]
64. Which
Tennessee
senator
became
President
in
1865?
[146]
_________________________________________
65. Which 1820 federal legislation banned slavery north of 36.30 degrees except in
Missouri? [153] __________________________________________