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Why did Lee pick the Confederacy over the Union?
Lee couldn’t fight against his home state Virginia.
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What does writs of habeas corpus protect?
A person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial.
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What type of war did Jefferson Davis want to fight and why?
He wanted to fight a war of attrition to avoid large battles and exhaust Northern supplies
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Why did the South suffer food shortages during the war?
The North’s Anaconda Plan.
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What was the prison in the South where 13,000 Union soldiers died?
Andersonville Prison
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What (why) did Lincoln stop prisoner exchanges during the war?
Until Confederates treated black soldiers equally as white soldiers.
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Who traveled 600 miles in order to distract Confederate forces so Grant could land south of Vicksburg?
Benjamin Grierson
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What city in Tennessee was important for the Union to capture because of the railroad running south to Atlanta?
Chatanooga
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What did George McClellan promise in the election of 1864?
To better prosecute the Union Army effort in the Civil War.
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What were the advantages the North had over the South in the war?
More population, experienced naval officers, experienced sailors, experienced military officers, factories/industries, railroads, and better finances.
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What affair brought Union close to war with Britain?
Trent Affair
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What were the plans and details of the Anaconda Plan?
Blockade Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to divide the Confederacy.
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Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
Enslaved people still in the rebellion states.
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Why did the Confederate’s surrender to Vicksburg?
Troops were starving
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Why was Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay important?
South no longer had a port on the Gulf og Mexico.
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What 1865 amendment to the Constitution banned slavery?
Thirteenth amendment
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national currency
Greenbacks
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peace democrats, opposed war, wanted negotiation
Copperheads
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first African American regiment officially organized in the North
54th Massachusetts
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cut off food and supplies and bombarded the city
siege of Vicksburg
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What charge at Gettysburg resulted in slaughter of Confederate troops?
Picketts Charge
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What order did Sherman give to the citizens of Atlanta before he burned it?
To evacuate the city
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Where and when did Lee surrender to Grant?
April 9, 1865, at the Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia.
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What resulted in the Union’s capture of the South’s largest city?
Battle of New Orleans
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Britain did not recognize confederacy, so south lost international recognition and support did what?
Convinced Lincoln to end slavery
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Battle of Bull Run
battle where “Stonewall” Jackson got his nickname
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First battle of Bull Run
Union defeat convinced Lincoln to increase enlistment to 500,000 troops
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
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Proposed the Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
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Robert E. Lee
Confederate General
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