Unit 4 Mid-Unit Study Guide

1) / Which part of the country supported slavery? South
2) / Which part of the country supported high tariffs on imported goods? North
3) / Which part of the country was more industrialized (had more factories)? North
4) / Which area of the country wanted laws that allowed new states to decide whether they would allow slavery or not?
South
5) / Which part of the country thought cotton was king? South
6) / Which part of the country wanted to preserve the Union (keep the country together) at any cost? North
7) / What two states came into the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1820? Maine, Missouri
8) / Besides admitting Missouri and Maine into the Union, the Compromise of 1820 also set a _boundary _line__ for slavery.
9) / The Missouri Compromise was overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act______.
10) / The Kansas-Nebraska Act, which overturned the Missouri Compromise, allowed popular sovereignty (states to decide whether they wanted slavery or not)______.
11) / What was the capital of the Confederacy? Richmond, Virginia
12) / Who was the president of the Confederacy? Jefferson Davis
13) / The first shots of the Civil War were exchanged at _Fort Sumter______.
14) / What were the advantages for the Confederacy? Best military leaders, better soldier material, knew the land,
15) / What strategy did the Union plan to use to win the Civil War? Blockade Confederate ports, Anaconda Plan, capture Richmond
16) / This compromise proposed a boundary line for future slave states and free states and is also known as the Compromise of 1820. Missouri Compromise
17) / What was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War? Antietam
18) / Who was the center of a US Supreme Court case that bears his name, even though the court ruled he was not a citizen and had not right to sue in court. Dred Scott
19) / Which Georgian served as the vice-president of the Confederacy? Alexander Stephens
20) / What policy allowed territories to decide for themselves whether to have slavery or not. Kansas-Nebraska Act
21) / What was the significance of the first week of July 1863? Turning point of the war for the Union
22) / What two events turned the war in the Union's favor the first week of July 1863? Battle of Gettysburg and surrender of Vicksburg
23) / After the election of 1850, union supporters within the state proposed the _Georgia Platform_ stating Georgia would abide by the Compromise of 1850 as long as the North did also.
24) / What was the last decisive victory for the Confederacy? Battle of Chickamauga
25) / Which battle temporarily stopped Sherman's attempt to invade Georgia and was one of the bloodiest battles in the war? Battle of Chattanooga
26) / Why did the union choose to blockade Georgia's coast? To keep goods from coming in and out of the state
27) / Eleven states seceded to form the Confederate States of America. What does sececed mean? Left the Union
28) / Where was the Confederate prisoner of war camp that was located in southwest Georgia? Andersonville
29) / What document stated slaves were free but did not actually free any? Emancipation Proclamation
30) / _A___ / Abraham Lincoln
31) / ___B___ / Jefferson Davis
32) / __D___ / Robert E. Lee
33) / _F___ / Joseph E. Brown
34) / __E__ / Ulysses S. Grant
35) / __G___ / William T. Sherman
36) / __C___ / Alexander Stephens
. / a) / President of the Union
b) / President of the Confederacy
c) / Georgian who served as vice-president of the Confederacy
d) / Commander of the Confederate troops who resigned his US Army position to fight with his native Virginia
e) / Commander of Union troops who gained his fame from leading the war in the west; had the nickname "Unconditional Surrender"
f) / Governor of Georgia during Civil War
g) / Union general who led the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea
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37) / This was the main Union Strategy.
The Union hoped to get control of the Mississippi River and cut off the western Confederacy.
Lastly, the Union would begin to squeeze the Confederacy into surrender.
What was the name of this Union strategy? Anaconda Plan
38) / This began in November 1864.
Gen. William T. Sherman led 60,000 troops on this destruction of the state of Georgia.
Union troops covered 15 miles per day, robbed Georgia farms, and destroyed railroads with Sherman's neckties.
This total war strategy ended in Savannah in December 1964.
What was the name of this event? Sherman’s March to the Sea
39) / Sherman was allowed to go ahead with the march to the sea because __ Grant trusted him______
40) / Gen. William Sherman started the Atlanta campaign with approximately ____60,000_ troops.
41) / ______Gen. William Sherman was the generalin charge ofthe March to the Sea.
42) / Gen. Sherman's organized effort to destroy the land from Atlanta to Savannah was called the_March to the Sea______.
43) / Historians call Sherman's strategy _total war______.
44) / Sherman presented President Lincoln the city of Savannah as apresent at the end of his march to the sea.
45) / __30%__of Atlanta was burned by Sherman's troops.