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Study Guide Answers for Civil War Test
Use these questions to prepare for the test. You should use your American
Journey Textbook chapter 16, all handouts and your homework and journal
questions when studying for your test.
1. Advantages of North and South?
North
*More people for troops and to make supplies
*More financial resources
*Better transportation
*More resources including, more Iron
South
*Fighting on familiar territory
*Fight fiercely to protect land/ way of life
*Only have to protect their land,
they don’t have to conquer land
*Great military leadership
2. What were the military goals at the beginning of the war?
Union Goal: to bring the Southern states back into the Union
Confederate Goal: to be an independent country/preserve their way of life
3. What were the military strategies?
North: The Anaconda Plan
1. Blockade southern ports so that they could not
get supplies in or their goods out to sell
2. Control the Mississippi: This would cut the
South’s supplies and divide the Confederacy
3. Capture Richmond the Confederate capital
South
1. Defend its land from the invading Union forces
2. Get help from Great Britain and France who imported large amounts of southern cotton
3. The Confederacy added another part to their plan, which was to invade the North to prove
to the Union that they could not win the war
4. What strategy did the North add? Why?
The North made the war about slavery by issuing the Emancipation
Proclamation. This was done to stop Great Britain and France from helping the
South
5 How were the military strategies carried out?
North
1.
Naval Blockade of Southern ports
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Cut Southern Trade by 2/3
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Monitor v. Merrimack
2.
Control the Mississippi River
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Fort Henry and Donelson on the Cumberland River
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3.
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Battle of Shioh
Battle of New Orleans
Capture Richmond
1st Battle of Richmond-Unsuccessful
2nd Battle of Richmond- SUCCESSFUL
Changed/New Strategies
4. Issued the Emancipation Proclamation after the victory of Antietam to
make the war about slavery so Great Britain and France wouldn’t help the
South.
South
1.
Defend/ Tire the N
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1st battle of Bull Run
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1st Battle of Richmond
2.
Get Help from Great Britain and France
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Hoped a win at Gettysburg would convince Great Britain and France to
help, but were unsuccessful.
3.
Attack to humiliate
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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Gettysburg-unsuccessful
6 Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
To make to war about slavery so Great Britain and France wouldn’t help the
South
7 Why did Lincoln suspend the right of habeas corpus?
To prevent people from interfering with the war effort. He felt that if s
soldier ran away he would be shot, yet nothing would happen to the person
who convinced him to run.
8 Why did Fredrick Douglas think it was important for African Americans
to fight in the war?
This would help them to secure their rights as citizens.
9 Why were there draft riots? 2 reasons
: 1. The rich could get out of the draft by paying for a replacement, 2. They
didn’t want to fight and die to free African Americans.
10 Why was Gettysburg a turning point in the war?
 The north started to win battles
 The Confederacy never invaded the North again because it lost huge
portion of the soldiers
 Boosted the morale of the North
11 What was the strategy of total war? Who decided to use this
strategy?
Total war is the destruction of anything that might be used by the enemy.
Sherman convinced Grant to allow him to use this method
12 What happened at Appomattox Court House?
Confederate General Lee surrendered to Union General Grant
13 How did the Civil war change the United States? This is the Essay on
the test. Must be written in a paragraph.
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13th amendment ends slavery
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The US remains one country
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The Constitution is strong; the national government has more power than the
states, therefore secession will not be allowed
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Rebuild the South physically and economically
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The question of how to treat the newly freed slaves continues to pull the
country apart
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For generations the relationship between Northerners and Southerners
remained hostile,
each side blaming the other for the war
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600,000 soldiers died
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Virginia split into 2 states
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The question of how to treat the states that seceded needed to be decided
Identify these terms and people:
Emancipate- to free from slavery
Yankee-Nickname for Union Soldier
Rebel-Nickname for Confederate Soldier
total war- destroying of all things that might help the enemy
blockade –to cut off a country’s ports by using warships or troops
Jefferson Davis- President of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee- Confederate General
Abraham Lincoln- President of the United States
Richmond- Confederate capital
Inflation- rise in the price of goods and services
Appomattox Court House- site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to General Grant
Casualty -military person killed or wounded
Ulysses S. Grant- Union General
Habeas corpus-guarantees the accused the right to a hearing before being jailed