US1H Chapters 22 and 23 quest review sheet
Study chart of Union and Confederacy: advantages and disadvantages, military objectives, generals, etc.
Confederacy - Rebels, Jefferson Davis, Richmond, etc.
- Problems Davis had?
- What state threatened to secede from the secession?
Union - Yankees, Abraham Lincoln, Washington, D.C., etc.
- Lincoln’s main reason for going to war?
Fort Sumter
- Major Robert Anderson
- Lincoln’s actions regarding Fort Sumter?
- Effects?
- What states joined Confederacy after Fort Sumter?
Border states
- What were the Border states?
- Importance of holding Maryland?
- First deaths of Civil War?
Study your Civil War map!!
Europe and Civil War
- Response to war in Europe?
- Views of European working classes and upper classes?
- “King Cotton” diplomacy?
- In what ways did Great Britain act “un-neutral”?
- Alabama
- Treaty of Washington
- Why did Europe ultimately not aid/recognize the South?
Limitations on wartime liberties
- What actions did Lincoln take that can be considered unconstitutional?
- habeas corpus
- Why did Lincoln take these actions?
First Battle of Bull Run
- Effects?
- General George McClellan
- Problems/weakness?
- Peninsula campaign
- Union strategy
- total war, etc.
War at sea
- blockaderunners
- Union blockade
- Why was it “leaky” at first?
- How did Union make blockade more effective?
- Battle of Hampton Roads
- Merrimack, Virginia, Monitor
- Why is it a turning point in naval history?
Battle of Antietam
- Where?
- Bloodiest single day of Civil War
- Advantage McClellan had going into this battle?
- Effects?
Preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation
- When issued?
- What did they say?
- Effects on war?
Thirteenth Amendment
African-American soldiers
- 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
- Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
- What happened to him at Battle of Chancellorsville?
Battle of Gettysburg
- Lee’s goals in invading North in summer 1863?
- Why was battle a turning point?
Battle of Vicksburg
- Where?
- How did Grant win there?
- Effects on the Confederacy?
General William Tecumseh Sherman’s “march to the sea”
- Atlanta to Savannah
- What was his strategy for victory?
Election of 1864
- Candidates?
- Who were the Copperheads?
- Andrew Johnson
- Why was he chosen at Lincoln’s running mate?
- What Union military victories occurred right around the time of election day?
Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse - end of Civil War
- When and where?
- Robert E. Lee
- Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln’s assassination
- Ford’s Theater
- John Wilkes Booth
- Andrew Johnson