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20 Cards in this Set
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Northern strategy for winning the war
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capture Mississippi River
blockade Southern ports invade South and defeat its armies |
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Southern strategy for winning the war
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outlast the North's will to fight
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Where did most of the fighting occur (in the East)?
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Virginia
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Capital of the Confederacy
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Richmond, Virginia
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When Lincoln first called up troops, how long did their enlistments last?
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3 months
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When did the Civil War begin?
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1861
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Why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight against the Union?
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defense of his home state
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What was one of the South's primary advantage at the outset of the Civil War?
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better commanders
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Which states were border states?
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Kentucky
Maryland Missouri Delaware |
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What were Copperheads?
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Southern sympathizers in the North
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What event dashed all Southern hopes of British intervention in the Civil War?
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
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keep Britain out of the war
encourage blacks to join the war effort give his troops a noble cause for fighting |
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What event ensured the failure of Lee's first invasion of the North?
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capture of Lee's battle plans
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What battle was the first clear-cut defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia?
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Battle of Gettysburg
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How was the war in the West similar to the war in the East?
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hard and bloody fighting
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Why did the North attempt to capture the Mississippi?
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to divided the Confederacy in two
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What caused a major riot in New York in 1863?
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conscription (draft)
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What was a border state?
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slave state that did not secede
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What state was pillaged by Sherman's bummers?
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Georgia
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The capture of what city ensure Lincoln's reelection in 1864?
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Atlanta
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