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| What four issues divided the nation,between the North and South, during the Civil War? | Slavery,cultural, economic,and constitutional. |
| What were some of the cultural issues between the North and the South during the Civil War? | The North was mainly an urban society(city) in which people held jobs while in the South, people lived in small villages,on farms, and plantation. Both found it difficult to agree on social and political issues. |
| How did the North feel about economic issues? | The North was manufactoring region and they favored tariffs(taxes) that protected factory owners and workers from foreign(other countries) competition. |
| How did the South feel about economic issues? | Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause prices of manufactored goods to increase. Planters(the South) were concerned that England might stop buying cotton from the South if tariffs were added. |
| What constitutional issues did the North and South have during the Civil War? | A major conflict was states' rights versus strong central government. |
| What was an important issue separating the country during the Civil War? | The power of the Federal government. |
| Who believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal? | Southerners |
| Who believed that the national government's power was supreme over that of the states? | Northerners |
| Who felt that the aboliton of slavery would destroy their region's economy? | Southerners |
| Who felt that slavery should be abolished for moral reasons? | Northerners |
| What was the Missouri Compromise? | Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state. |
| When was the Missouri Compromise? | 1820 |
| What was the Compromise of 1850? | This was when California was a free state and the southwest territories would decide about slavery. |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | People decided the slavery issue("popular sovereignty"). |
| When did the southern states secede from the Union? | Following Lincoln's election |
| What marked the beginning of the Civil War? | The war began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. |
| Who believed that the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided? | Lincoln and many Northerners |
| Who believed that states had freely created and joined the union and could freely leave it? | Southerners |
| Name the states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War? | Alabama,Arkansas,Florida,Georgia,Louisiana,Mississippi,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tennessee,Texas, and Virginia. |
| Which states were border states that remained in the Union but they were slave states? | Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland,and Missouri |
| Which states were free states during the war? | California,Connecticut,Illinois,Indiana,Iowa,Kansas,Maine,Massachusetts,Michigan,Minnesota,New Hampshire,New Jersey,New York,Ohio,Oregon,Pennsylvania,Rhode Island,Vermont,West Virginia(Western counties of Va.that refused to leave the Union), and Wisconsin |
| Who was President of the United States during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who oppossed the spread of slavery? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What leader issued the Emancipation Proclamation? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who was determined to preserve the Union by force if necessary? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Which leader felt that the United States was one nation and not a collection of independent states? | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who wrote the Gettysburg Address? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What document stated that the Civil War was to preserve a government "of the people,by the people, and for the people"? | The Gettysburg Address |
| Who was the president for the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis |
| What general of the Union army defeated Robert E. Lee? | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Who was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia? | Robert E. Lee |
| Who was offered command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war but chose not to fight against Virginia? | Robert E. Lee |
| What Civil War leader opposed the secession, but did not believe the union should be held together by force? | Robert E. Lee |
| Which general urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and to reunite as Americans when some wanted to fight on? | Robert E. Lee |
| Which skilled Confederate general was from Virginia? | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
| Who was a former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist? | Frederick Douglass |
| What event began the Civil War/ | The firing on Fort Sumter,South Carolina. |
| What was the first major battle of the war? | Battle of Manassas(Bull Run) |
| What freed the slaves? | The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Which army did many freed slaves join? | The Union army |
| Which battle divided the South? | The Battle of Vicksburg |
| Who controlled the Mississippi River during the war? | The North |
| What was the turning point of the war? | The Battle of Gettysburg |
| What happened during the Battle of Gettsysburg? | The North repelled Lee's invasion. |
| What event ended the war? | Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House. |
| When did the war end? | 1865 |
| What were the ways location and topography influenced important developments in the war? | The Union blockade of southern ports(e.g.,Savannah, Charleston,New Orleans),control of the Mississippi River(at Vicksburg), |
| How did battle locations influence major battles? | Battle locations were influenced by the struggle to capture capital cities such as Richmond and Washington,D.C. and the control of higher ground such as Gettysburg. |
| What hardships were experienced during the Civil War? | Families and friends were often pitted against one another,Southern troops became increasingly younger and more poorly equipped and clothed, and most of the South was devasted at the end of the war.(e.g., burning of Atlanta and Richmond). |
| What Civil War nurse created the American Red Cross? | Clara Barton |
| How did the Civil War change the lives of soldiers and women? | Combat was brutal and often man-to-man,women were left to run businesses in the North and farms and plantations in the South, and the collapse of the Confederacy made Conferderate money worthless. |
| What effects did the war have on the African Americans? | African Americans fought in both the Confederate and Union armies. |
| Who used slaves as naval crew members and soldiers? | The Confederacy |
| Which side enlisted African Americans early in the war? | The Union |
| How were African American soldiers treated differently from the white soldiers? | African American soldiers were paid less than white soldiers,they were discriminated against, and served in segregated units under the command of white officers. |
| Who was an African American sailor who later became a naval captain? | Robert Smalls |
| What was Robert Smalls honored for? | Bravery and heroism |
| What did Robert Smalls achieve after the war? | He became a Congressman. |
