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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] __________________________________________