Civil War

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A major advantage for the South in the Civil War was its strong military traditions with many well-trained leaders from West Point and other academies.

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True

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As a war president Lincoln was a good leader who left the conduct of the war freely in the hands of his aggressive General-in-Chief, Joseph E. Johnston.

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False

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Of the more than 600,000 dead in the Civil War, more died from disease and the lack of good medical care for even minor wounds than were killed outright in battle.

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True

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Prior to the last two years of the war there was comparably little military action west of the Appalachians, except for the lower Mississippi river and Louisiana.

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False

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Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas

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resulted in the destruction of many southern towns and cities

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Who commanded the Confederate troops at Antietam?

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Robert E. Lee

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What was the significance of the Battle of Bull Run?

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It showed Confederate leaders that they would not win the war with one decisive strike,It showed Union leaders that they would not win the war with one decisive strike.If the Confederate Army had pursued the fleeing Union soldiers into Washington, they might have changed the outcome of the war.

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The siege of Petersburg

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lasted for more than nine months

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Which of the following statements is true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

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It freed the slaves of any state in open rebellion against the Union, based on military necessity.

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The number of blacks in the Union Army

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was roughly 200,000, about 10 percent of the Union Army's total manpower

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In the election of 1864,

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Democrats called for an armistice

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The Battle of Shiloh

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was at that time the costliest battle in terms of casualties in which Americans had ever fought

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Confederate finances

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depended mostly on new issues of paper money

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The Civil War began when

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Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter

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In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln emphasized

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the permanent nature of the Union

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When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, it ordered that:

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only slaves in areas already conquered by the Union would be freed

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The Lincoln administration responded to British outrage over the Trent affair by:

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claiming the American officer had acted without orders, and releasing the Confederates seized

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During the Battle of Gettysburg, Generals Lee and Longstreet argued because:

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Longstreet wanted to move the army towards Washington, and Lee wanted to stay and fight

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The Confederate Batteries began firing on Fort Sumter because:

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Fort Sumter fired on ships attempting to enter the harbor

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In the New York Draft Riots of 1863, the mob committed violence primarily against:

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city hall

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What was the south advantage?

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fought a defensive war

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The last confederate state to secede from the Union was

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Noth carolina

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Jefferson davis hoped to win the war by

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stalemathing the union army

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In the Peninsular campaign og 1862

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Robert E.Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia

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The turning point of the war was

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Antietam

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The Emancipation Proclamtion

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freed slaves in rebllious territory

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The the election in 1864 Lincoln beat

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George B. McClellan

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What is the Peninsular Campaign?

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major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan

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What is King Cotton?

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was a phrase used in the Southern United States mainly by Southern politicians and authors who wanted to illustrate the importance of the cotton crop to the Confederate economy during the American Civil War.

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What is Appomattox Court House

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The site of Robert E Lee surrender

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Who is Jay Cooke?

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He helped gain money for the north

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What was the National Bank Act?

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he National Bank Act (ch. 58, 12 Stat. 665, February 25, 1863) was a United States federal law that established a system of national charters for banks. It encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities

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What was the Trent Affair

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he Trent Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861 the USS San Jacinto, commanded by CaptainCharles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packeTrent and removed two Confederate diplomats,James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France in order to press the Confederacy's case for diplomatic recognition by Europe

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Charles Francis Adams Jr

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Adams was president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890, having previously become widely known as an authority on the management of railways. Among his writings are Railroads, Their Origin and Problems (1878).

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Robert E.Lee

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He is best known for commanding the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy as well as criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth

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Anaconda Plan

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is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.

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Sally Louisa Tompkins

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was a humanitarian, nurse, and philanthropist who privately sponsored a hospital to treat soldiers wounded in the American Civil War. She was the only woman officially commissioned as an officer in the Confederate States Army.

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Draft Riot

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were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War