U.s. History Chapter 15-17 Test

Front 1

The Confederate cause was lost when Lee surrendered at ____________________.

Back 1

Appomattox

Front 2

The new political party that formed in 1854 was the __________________ _______________.

Back 2

Republican Party

Front 3

What were the 3 goals of the North's strategy for winning the war?

Back 3

1. Shutting off southern ports with a naval blockade
2. Capturing Richmond
3. Gaining control of the Mississippi River

Front 4

What occupied the least amount of time for the soldiers during the Civil War?

Back 4

fighting

Front 5

After Lee had led the South to several victories, the Confederates experienced a painful defeat at the ___________ of _____________

Back 5

Battle of Gettysburg

Front 6

Union and Confederate soldiers first clashed in the ___________ of _____________

Back 6

Battle of Bull Run

Front 7

Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the 1864 election was ____________ ____________.

Back 7

George McClellan

Front 8

Following the surrender at Appomattox, Confederate soldiers were _______________________________________.

Back 8

generously allowed to return home

Front 9

Who was the leading Union General at the end of the war that worked well with President Lincoln? (Pres. Lincoln never fired him.)

Back 9

General U.S. Grant

Front 10

Which side won both of the Battles of Bull Run?

Back 10

Confederates

Front 11

Early in the war which General progressed very slowly and frustrated President Lincoln?

Back 11

General McClellan

Front 12

Which country did the South try to convince to join them in fighting the Union?

Back 12

Britain

Front 13

Were the Confederate forces able to stop Sherman from advancing from Chattanooga to Atlanta?

Back 13

No

Front 14

Who assassinated Pres. Lincoln?

Back 14

John Wilkes Booth

Front 15

What 2 ironclad ships were involved in a Civil War clash that had a significant effect on the future of fighting vessels?

Back 15

The Monitor v. The Merrimack

Front 16

What term denotes General Sherman's destructive advance through the South?

Back 16

Sherman's March to the Sea

Front 17

What tactic did the North use to discourage the South's sea trade?

Back 17

Blockade

Front 18

What Virginia region did Philip Sheridan and his men devastate in order to help break the South? (so that a crow flying over it would have to pack rations)

Back 18

The Shenandoah River Valley

Front 19

What was the "spinal column of America" according to William T. Sherman?

Back 19

The Mississippi River

Front 20

Who was Lincoln's running mate in the 1864 election?

Back 20

Andrew Johnson

Front 21

What one casualty at Chancellorsville severely crippled the Confederate forces? (Lee called him his "right arm.)

Back 21

Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Front 22

In the battle of Gettysburg, what famous Confederate attack through an open field resulted in the loss of thousands of Confederate soldiers?

Back 22

Pickett's Charge

Front 23

What did Pres. Lincoln issue following the Battle of Antietam to strengthen the Union cause?

Back 23

The Emancipation Proclamation

Front 24

This was a network of people who aided runaway slaves. These "conductors" hid slaves by day from their captors and overnight helped them to travel to the next "stop".

Back 24

The Underground Railroad

Front 25

This statement encompasses the philosophy prevalent in the 1800s that "God intends for us to have all the western lands to the Pacific Ocean (map of US, from sea to shining sea)

Back 25

Manifest Destiny

Front 26

This was the last state to join the Confederacy, and joined because they were "hemmed in " on all sides by Confederate States.

Back 26

North Carolina

Front 27

This is the reason people went west in 1848-1849

Back 27

The California Gold Rush

Front 28

The election of this man as th 16th President of the US caused SC to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860

Back 28

Abraham Lincoln

Front 29

The north was more urban and industrial (means this)

Back 29

had larger cities, factories and small farms, therefore not conducive to slave labor

Front 30

This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe inflamed anger and passion in the north and was an important influence in forming Northern opinions against slavery and its evils - the book was banned in the South

Back 30

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Front 31

The South was more rural, farms, plantations, no factories dependent on what 2 major crops?

Back 31

Cotton and Tobacco

Front 32

What invention greatly increased the profits from Cotton and helped make slavery profitable to the plantation owners?

Back 32

The Cotton Gin (Eli Whitney)

Front 33

These people felt that slavery was evil and immoral and should be "abolished"

Back 33

Abolitionist

Front 34

Who "fired" many of his commanding Generals MANY times during the Civil War?

Back 34

Pres. Lincoln

Front 35

Short Answer:
What were the results of the Civil War? (what happened to Lincoln, what happened to slavery, what happened to the issues of secession and nullification, how did the south accept "total war")

Back 35

Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction failed.
Slavery was forever banned in the United States.
States could not leave the Union.
States could not ignore federal laws.
The South hated the north (the "Yankees") because of Sheridan's destruction of the Shenandoah Valley and Sherman's March to the Sea.