Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
44 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Chptr 20: What is the approximate date of this chptrs coverage
|
March 1863
|
|
|
Explain what was behind the draft riots in New York July 11, 1863
|
4 days of rioting 12, troops to calm in NYC. Democrats argue that the rich are exempt and the poor forced to free those that will take their job from them
|
|
|
How does Vallandigham explain that he is as much preserving the Union as anyone. Note the words " Let the Dead of Fredericksburg and Vicksburg answer
|
Vallandigham considered an armistice and negotiations with the South would be the best way to hold together the Union
|
|
|
What is the National Bank Act and how does it strengthen the Federal Government?
|
NBA centralized federal monetary system rubbing out state bank currency. Banks could get special charter from congress if one third of money be in green backs. Later 10% tax was placed to use state bank note
|
|
|
Why do the Illinois and Indiana governors suspend their legislatures ?
|
To make recruitment of troops more difficult
|
|
|
Summarize Lincolns argument for arresting Vallandigham (pg598)
|
Laboring to prevent the raising of troops and encourage desertions. He was damaging the arms upon which the existence and vigor of which the life of the nation depends.
|
|
|
McPherson argued that neither the North or the South had a situation of " a rich mans war and a poor mans fight "
|
the rich and poor were both fighting and not just the poor.
|
|
|
What was the 20 Negro land exemption
|
exemption popular however to keep slaves working to benefit the South and to the protection of Southern women. Later a fee for the exemption was required
|
|
|
Describe the bread riots of Petersburg
|
By Spring of 1863, the combination of the Northern blockade of Southern ports, the diversion of Southern food supplies from the home front to the war front and the escalating inflation of its currency began to negatively affect the Confederacy's civilian population. Tensions boiled to the surface on April 2, 1863 when a group of hungry and desperate women descended upon the Confederate capitol in Richmond demanding relief. Rebuffed by the Governor, the mob took their complaints to the streets and sparked a spontaneous protest by a crowd estimated in the thousands. Shouting "Bread, Bread, Bread!" the mob vented its frustrations by smashing store windows and looted their contents.
|
|
|
Chptr 21: What upsets the dance in Vicksburg on April 16,1863
|
Union gun boats
|
|
|
Instead of attacking Vicksburg once landing his forces below the town Grant first headed where?
|
He goes to Jackson to fight Johnson
|
|
|
Describe briefly the capture of Vicksburg.
|
Vicksburg was surrounded ran out of food and gave up now
|
|
|
What were the circumstances and conditions of surrender at Vicksburg?
|
Confederacy in West was defeated and Johnston was forced to retreat to mid Alabama
|
|
|
In the east in 1863 Lee had his greatest victory and this greatest defeat in back to back battles Explain.
|
won at Chancellorsville and lost at Gettysburgh
|
|
|
What were the remarkable tactical moves by the Union and Confederate generals in the battle of Chancellorsville?
|
Lee held lines from Fredricksburg westward; Longstreet campaigned against the federals along the coast. Hooker built his force to attack Lee out in the open on Lee's left. Lee moved to his left with 10,00 and Subal Early at Fredricksburg. At Chancellorsville Hooker took a defense stance instead of keeping the advantage in open spaces Jackson moved to hookers right w/ 30,000 while Lee held center behind Chancellorsville w/15,000
|
|
|
What were the losses of each side at Chancellorsville?
|
Union 17,000 and Confed. lost 13,000
|
|
|
How did Hooker get a concussion?
|
a cannon ball hit their head quarters
|
|
|
So, what drew rebels to Gettysburg?
|
shoes
|
|
|
For what position did Pickett charge and what effect did it have on the battle and Lee's ongoing command?
|
to take the cemetery ridge; it forced the Confederates to retreat
|
|
|
Chptr22: What does the Prairie Grove do for the overall Union war effort?
|
Three quarters of Arkansas was given to Union control.
|
|
|
For what reason is Rosecrans able to claim praise for his efforts from June to August of '63?
|
Rosecrans got strong forces on both Confederate flanks in the Duck River valley
|
|
|
What is significant about September 8, 1863 in Chattanooga?
|
It was the lat day of the " Second Battle of Chattanooga"
|
|
|
How and when did the Chickamauga battle start?
|
Fighting began in earnest on the morning of September 19. Bragg's men strongly assaulted but could not break the Union line. The next day, Bragg resumed his assault. In late morning, Rosecrans was misinformed that he had a gap in his line. In moving units to shore up the supposed gap, Rosecrans accidentally created an actual gap, directly in the path of an eight-brigade assault on a narrow front by Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet. Longstreet's attack drove one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself, from the field. Union units spontaneously rallied to create a defensive line on Horseshoe Ridge, forming a new right wing for the line of Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, who assumed overall command of remaining forces. Although the Confederates launched costly and determined assaults, Thomas and his men held until twilight. Union forces then retired to Chattanooga while the Confederates occupied the surrounding heights, besieging the city.
|
|
|
At 11;30 that day Longstreet just in from Virginia had the best Confederate moment in the battle explain.
|
Longstreet's attack drove one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself, from the field
|
|
|
What was the best moment for the Union forces?
|
The Union under Rosecrans held Bragg's back, so the lines could not be broken and creating a defensive line on Horse Shoe Ridge
|
|
|
What was the significance of the Battle for Chattanooga and for the greater war?
|
Both the South and the Union wanted control of Tennessee; and for Chattanooga it was an a imprtant manufacturing center of Iron and coke
|
|
|
Why was Butlers grasp of Brownsville , Texas key in offsetting French connections to the Confederacy
|
Both sides sometimes used French agents as go between to preserve the fiction of trading with a neutral instead of the enemy
|
|
|
In the South what were the main lines of political disagreement in 63?
|
Worsening inflation and shortage, and bad command for the war
|
|
|
How does the North Carolina '63 governors race fail to produce the" peace candidate" as the winner?
|
Vance and Holden fought. Vance succeeded in pinning the reconstruction label on Vance. Vance was not going to allow the people to have their land back to work, bur send them to the Union to fight for Lincoln
|
|
|
Lincoln sees reconstruction of southern rebel states as useful to winning the war and keeping the Union. How so?
|
Lincoln offered to help rebuild each state and pardon them if they agreed to all the laws in the Union including slavery.. This would be a state by state reconstruction of the Union
|
|
|
How does Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution become a dramatic discussion and reconstruction?
|
10% of the number of voters of 1860. This was a concept of sufficient ambiguity to attract voters of different view points. This might mean Negro suffrage, construed to prohibit slavery, or discountenanced rebellion
|
|
|
What was the "tangible nucleus" General Banks in Louisiana was pressed by Lincoln to achieve?
|
This was a Union organization purposed to hold a state convention to adopt anew constitution abolishing slavery and ridding the old constitution of other conservative features. Once this was accomplished an election of state officials and congressman could be and a purified Louisiana could rejoin the Union.
|
|
|
What was Lincolns reconstruction plan?
|
Lincoln offered pardon and amnesty to anyone who took an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and too all its laws including slavery.
|
|
|
What 4 issues emerged in 1864 about slavery?
|
the fate of slavery, the political roles of blacks in reconstruction, the definition of loyalty, and the status of free black labor in the new order
|
|
|
What kind of efforts were tried to help the freedmen transition from slavery to free labor?
|
The amendment to the constitution, the emancipation proclamation, and the Wade Davis Bill
|
|
|
Why the Secretary of treasury's bid for the presidency short lived?
|
Chase believed in 4 Trinity. His brother Blair made a anti Chase campaign. chase soon had a scandal going.. Embarrassed because of the scandals surrounding his name he withdrew from the candidacy
|
|
|
Chptr24: as both North and South 3 year enlistments expired what measures did each take to replenish the ranks?
|
The North used persuasion. Three year veterans that reenlisted would receive a special chevron to wear on their sleeves, a thirty day furlough, and $400 federal bounty +n local state. The south forced the army to stay and fight
|
|
|
Why was it necessary for the North to have a bigger military than the South?
|
A technique to scare the South
|
|
|
What was the Souths regard for the Northern election in '64?
|
If Southern armies could hold out until the election, war weariness in the North might cause the voters to elect a Peace Democrat who would negotiate Confederate Independence
|
|
|
Who became the overall commander in the East?
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
|
|
Identify the locations and the early '64 Military tasks of each of the following generals?: bank, Sigel, and Butler
|
Banks= located on Mobile and his job was to drive up the Red River in Louisiana to seize cotton and expand the area of Union political control. After that he was to turn eastward against Mobile.
Butler= Cut the railroad between Petersburgh and Richmond and would have run into the capital of Virginny Sigel= was suppose to advance up the valley to capture Staunton |
|
|
Why did Longstreet leave the scene of battle?
|
Longstreet was injured badly
|
|
|
Who said" I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"?
|
Grant
|
|
|
What was the unions attempt at Cold Harbor and how successful was it?
|
Grant wanted to drive the Confed. Army back into Chickahominy, win the war, which would thus secure the presidency for Lincoln
|
