Download Civil War Website Treasure Hunt (updated 7/2003 by Susan C

Civil War Website Treasure Hunt (updated 7/2003 by Susan C. Bisset)
Name: __JaColby carter
1.____ A civil war is a war between different groups of people who belong to the same
country.
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2. Why did the American Civil War start? ____started because of their different ways of
living_________________________________
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3. List the states that were part of the Confederacy. ___
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
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What are the Border States? _________Delaware
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri______________________________________
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4. What were the cultural differences in the North and the South? ______
factories, favored taxes that
protected them from foreign
competition
large plantations, opposed taxes
that would raise prices and hurt
sales to New England states
money not plentiful, but
developing
prospered from farming tobacco &
cotton
freedom for slaves
depended on
slavery
urban society, people held jobs
lived in small
villages and on
farms
Strong central government,
State's rights
Cultural Differences
Constitutional Differences
wanted the nation to stay together
important
(secession
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5. What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise of 1820? ________Attempted Compromises:
The Missouri Compromise (1820), kept a voting balance of a slave state (Missouri) and a free
state (Maine). ___________
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6. Aside from the compromises, list four secession events leading to the war?
The North and the South had different attitudes toward slavery, free labor
(paid) versus slave labor (unpaid)
Confederate
troops
bombarded
a Union
stronghold,
Fort Sumter,
Charleston,
South
Carolina,
April 12,
1861.
Ways of life
were
different for
both sides:
plantations
versus
factories.
On state's
rights the
North
argued no
state had a
right to
secede from
the Union,
the South
argued a
state could
leave the
Union if it
voted to do
so.
7. List the causes of the Civil War? __Union stronghold, Fort Sumter, Charleston,
South Carolina, April 12, 1861.
8. Name three influential people of the Civil War. Then, link to further information on these
people bAbraham Lincolny clicking on their names. List four new pieces of information your learned
about each person.
1. ______
Robert E.
Lee
Leader of
the Army in
Northern
Virginia
Offered the
Union
command,
but chose
not to fight
against
Virginia
Opposed
secession,
but didn't
want to
force unity
Urged
Southerners
to accept
defeat and
reunite
Frederick Douglass
Former slave who escaped to the North and
became
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2. ____________________________________________________________________
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3. ____________________________________________________________________
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9. Name the battle:
This was the beginning of the Civil War __The U.S. flag was not raised again at Fort Sumter
until February 18, 1865. The fort was not of military importance, but a symbol to both
sides. _____________________________________
Volunteer soldiers lined-up in clean uniforms __________________________________
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War _____________________________________________
Led to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation ___________________________
Turning point of the war _____________________________________________
This victory split the Confederacy in two ________________________________
10. In which state were most of the battles fought? _Virginia______________________
11. What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
In the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln said the Civil
War was to preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox
Courthouse on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War.
Lee said of the terms that Grant had written, "You have been very generous to the
South."
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12. How, when, and where did the Civil War end? ________________________
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13. Describe four things about the home front during the war.
1. _At home, families and friends were on opposite sides of the war. Southern troops
were young and poorly equipped. Much of the war took place in the South. Large cities
like Atlanta and Richmond were destroyed and devastated with disease. Battle was
often man-to-man. Women were left to run businesses and farms throughout the
country. The collapse of the South made Confederate money worthless.
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2. ____________________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________________
14. Who was Clara Barton? Clara Barton known as the "Angel of the Battlefields" was a
famous Civil War nurse to wounded Union troops. She was the founder of the
American Red Cross in1881________________________________________________
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What were two of her accomplishments? _As soon as the word spread, Clara got many
letters looking for lost men and boys. She made contacts with the families herself.
Soon after, she went to Andersonville, Georgia where almost 80,000 soldiers were
prisoners of the war. When she closed the office in 1868, she was able to find
information on more than 22,000 soldiers.
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15. During the war, how many letters passed through Washington, DC, daily? _Each day, 90,000
letters passed through Washington, D.C., even more through Kentucky. Soldiers used lead
pencils, because pens and ink were very rare. _______
16. What were two disadvantages of the African Americans that fought in the war?
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17. List three amendments that passes after the Civil War ended. What are they about?
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18. What was Reconstruction_Reconstruction after the Civil War was the process of
reorganizing the southern states into the Union. Throughout the South, livestock had
been killed, as plantations and industries were destroyed. Productivity levels slowed
down, and Southern productivity had depended on slave labor, which no longer existed
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19. What was sharecropping? Landowners had to sell large portions of land. The concept of
sharecropping began in the South. A tenant or sharecropper agreed to give the landowner, as
rent, a portion of the crop raised from his labor. Sharecropping kept newly freed slaves in debt
to landowners_______________________________________
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20. If you were in the Civil War,who side would you be_on why.North because they don’t
allow slavery.________
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