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Name:___________________________________ Date: ______________ Hour:________________ CIVIL WAR OCCT STUDY GUIDE Causes of the War from Chapter 16: 1. The Missouri Compromise admitted California to the Union as a free state but contained many compromises with slavery for other areas to keep the South happy and not fearful. 2. The Kansas Nebraska Act broke the Missouri Compromises solution to slavery in Louisiana Territory of no slaves north of the 36,30 line by allowing Popular Sovereignty or allowing the people of those territories to vote. 3. The Dred Scot Case made many abolitionist furious and caused John Brown to turn Bleeding Kansas more red with blood from the Slave Supporters he killed. 4. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry turns John Brown into a martyr for the cause of abolition of slavery. 5. The Election of Lincoln in 1860 was final straw that breaks the camel’s back that causes the South to secede. 6. List the States that Secede from the Union: 7. The firing on Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina and Lincoln mobilizing troops caused the last four states of Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee to secede. Turning Points of the Civil War 8. The Battle of showed The Union that The Confederacy would not easily be beat and that this war was going to be a lot bloodier than anyone had imagined. 9. Battle of Antietam was the day of the war and it gave President Lincoln the public relation’s ability to sign the ____________________ _____________________ which freed all slaves in the South. 10. Lee’s failure to win this three day battle in Pennsylvania helped lead to the defeat of the South, What is this Battle? 11. When General Grant and Sherman captured _______________________ Mississippi on July 4 1864 it meant that The United States had total control of the Mississippi River as a means of re-supply from Europe. 12. Control of the Mississippi River and a total blockade of the South was all a part of Admiral Farragut’s ______________ Plan to not allow any re-supply or economic activity in the South. 13. President Lincoln said “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” This closed his short 3 paragraph Second Innaugural Address. Basically, he said that when the war is over we will make The South our ____________ and help them. 14. The burning of Atlanta and Sherman’s March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in his army’s path was all a part of Grant and Sherman’s ______________________ War Plan. 15. With resources totally gone, and his army totally surrounded around Richmond, Virginia General Robert E. Lee is forced to surrender at ______________________ Court House. 16. When _________________ ___________________ ______________________ shot President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on Good Friday 1865 General Lee said the following, “ The South has just lost her best friend.” This means that Lee understood that South would have been fairly treated during The Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War had Lincoln lived. His death meant that those in the North who wanted to punish the South could not be stopped. Name:___________________________________ Date: ______________ Hour:________________ Leaders of the Confederacy (Confederate States) South 17. __________________ ________________ was the President of The Confederate States of America. 18. Robert E. Lee was the _______________________ __________________________ of the Army of Northern Virginia; and the South’s main commander and best general. 19. Stonewall Jackson was Lee’s ______________ _____________________ man. Lee’s military strategy suffered greatly after Jackson was accidentally shot to death by his own mean during the Battle of Chancellorsville. Leaders of the Union (United States) North 20. President Abraham Lincoln was very involved in military ______________________ during the war and approved highly of Farragut’s Anaconda Plan and Grant’s idea of total warfare or “Making them holler to surrender.” 21. George B. McClellan was ___________________ twice by Lincoln as Lincoln went through seven generals to command the Army of the Potomac or the North’s largest army. 22. Lincoln finally chose General ____________________ ___ ______________________ to command the Army of the Potomac because Lincoln believed he would track down Lee’s army and fight his army until Lee surrendered. 23. General William Tecumseh Sherman was chosen by General ______________________ to command the Army of Tennessee in order to gut the South by capturing Atlanta and destroying the breadbasket of the South which was located in a narrow area between Atlanta and Savannah Georgia on the coast, this was total war. Strengths and Weakness of the North and South North South Strengths Poor military leaders and war strategy by Army Generals until Lincoln comes up with __________________. The South is fighting most of the war in Weaknesses the south so they fight hard to defend their homeland. Many in the north did not want the war and opposed the draft. Very few factories, railroads, bridges, tunnels, canals, and telegraph lines. The South also had no navy to stop the Anaconda Plan, they spent the entire war trying to develop one, the South never caught up with the North's Navy. The South also did not have the stockpile of military weapons, equipment, uniforms, shoes, horses that the North had.