US History Chapter 11

Why did Lee pick the Confederacy over the Union?

Lee couldn’t fight against his home state Virginia.

What does writs of habeas corpus protect?

A person’s right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial.

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

Why did the South suffer food shortages during the war?

The North’s Anaconda Plan.

What was the prison in the South where 13,000 Union soldiers died?

Andersonville Prison

What (why) did Lincoln stop prisoner exchanges during the war?

Until Confederates treated black soldiers equally as white soldiers.

Who traveled 600 miles in order to distract Confederate forces so Grant could land south of Vicksburg?

Benjamin Grierson

What city in Tennessee was important for the Union to capture because of the railroad running south to Atlanta?

Chatanooga

What did George McClellan promise in the election of 1864?

To better prosecute the Union Army effort in the Civil War.

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.

What affair brought Union close to war with Britain?

Trent Affair

What were the plans and details of the Anaconda Plan?

Blockade Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to divide the Confederacy.

Who did the Emancipation Proclamation free?

Enslaved people still in the rebellion states.

Why did the Confederate’s surrender to Vicksburg?

Troops were starving

Why was Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay important?

South no longer had a port on the Gulf og Mexico.

What 1865 amendment to the Constitution banned slavery?

Thirteenth amendment

national currency

Greenbacks

peace democrats, opposed war, wanted negotiation

Copperheads

first African American regiment officially organized in the North

54th Massachusetts

cut off food and supplies and bombarded the city

siege of Vicksburg

What charge at Gettysburg resulted in slaughter of Confederate troops?

Picketts Charge

What order did Sherman give to the citizens of Atlanta before he burned it?

To evacuate the city

Where and when did Lee surrender to Grant?

April 9, 1865, at the Appomattox Courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia.

What resulted in the Union’s capture of the South’s largest city?

Battle of New Orleans

Britain did not recognize confederacy, so south lost international recognition and support did what?

Convinced Lincoln to end slavery

Battle of Bull Run

battle where “Stonewall” Jackson got his nickname

First battle of Bull Run

Union defeat convinced Lincoln to increase enlistment to 500,000 troops

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

Proposed the Anaconda Plan

Winfield Scott

Robert E. Lee

Confederate General