Civil War Test

Name six causes of the war.

Slavery, Anti-slavery, Sectionalism, Lincoln's election, bloody Kansas, Dred Scott case

Name at least two nicknames for the north.

Union, Yankees, Federals

Name at least two nicknames for the south.

Confederacy, Rebels, Dixie, Secessionists

Name at least two advantages the north had.

More goods, more factories, more people, more cash, more gold, navy, rail transportation

Name at least two advantages the south had.

Better generals, homeland, closer to supplies, local aid, protecting way of life

President during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

What was the battle that started the Civil War?

Fort Sumter possibly BullRun

Name at least three generals from the north.

McClellan, Burnside, Scott, McDowell, Halleck, Pope, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, Grant, Sheridan

Name at least three generals from the south.

Jackson, Lee, Johnston, Hood, Hill, Pemberton, Bragg, Beauregard, Rosecrans, Floyd

Name at least three battles where more people died than the Revolutionary war, the War of 1812, and the Mexican-American war combined.

Gettysburg, Antietam, Spotyslvania, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Shiloh

After the Battle of Antietam, what document did Lincoln issue?

Emancipation Proclamation

After what battle did Abraham Lincoln give a speech to dedicate a cemetery?

Battle of Gettysburg

Name at least five other battles of the civil war not mentioned yet.

Atlanta 1864, Cold Harbor 1864, Vicksburg 1863, Chancellorsville 1863, Bull Run 2 1862, Seven days 1862, Fair Oaks 1867, Fort Donelson 1862, Fort Henry 1862

Name two battles and the generals there.

Shiloh - Union: Grant, Confederacy: Johnston

Antietam - Union: McClellan, Confederacy: Lee

Wilderness--Union: Grant, Confederacy: Lee

Bull Run-Union: McDowell, Confederacy: Beauregard

What general was responsible for the TOTAL WAR in the south? (It was also called his MARCH TO THE SEA)

William "Tecumseh" Sherman

Which general was accidentally shot by his troops at the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Stonewall Jackson

About how many troops died during the American Civil War?

600,000

Name the Virginia town where the south surrendered to the North to end the Civil War.

Appomattox Courthouse

Name the two generals that were involved in the surrender to end the Civil War.

Grant and Lee

Border states

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the war

Cotton diplomacy

Confederate efforts to use the importance of Southern cotton to Britain's textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Ironclads

warships which are heavily clad with iron

Emancipation

freeing of the slaves

54th Massachusetts Infantry

African-American Civil War regiment that captured Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

Copperheads

a group of Northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

Habeas Corpus

the Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.

Clara Barton

founder of the American Red Cross, she obtained and administered supplies and care to the Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

Pickett's Charge(1863)

a failed Confederate attack during the Civil War led by General George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Total war

a type of war in which an army destroys its opponents' ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic resources as well as the military.

Anaconda Plan

A plan made by Weinfeld Scott that had three parts. Capture the Mississippi River, Block Confederate Ports, and Capture Richmond.

What was practiced at the battle of Atlanta?

Total War

What was the date of the surrender?

April 9, 1865