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US HIST CIV WAR TEST
Mr. Stickler's Liberty Christian US HIST Civil War Unit Test Flashcards 2017
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Crittenden's Compromise? | It guaranteed slavery where it already existed (and attempted to stop the practice from spreading to other states). |
| Why is Fort Sumter important to the Civil War? | It was the place where the war started. Confederates bombed this Union fort from ships. |
| What is "martial law"? | This means "military rule". |
| What does the term "habeas corpus" mean? | It refers to a court order that requires the government to charge an imprisoned person with a crime or let them go. |
| What was the goal of the "Anaconda Plan"? | This was a plan that the Union Army came up with. In it, they would cut the Confederacy in half using naval blockades to stop supply shipments and adding gunboat patrols up & down the Mississippi River. |
| What does the term "attrition" mean? | This term refers to the wearing down of one side by the other, especially during times of war. |
| What were "blockade runners"? | These were small, fast ships that the Confederacy used to smuggle goods past the Union blockades. |
| How were Civil War battles named by the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy)? | The North named battles for bodies of water or other natural features; the South used the names of the nearest town or man-made landmarks. |
| Which Civil War battle was the "turning point of the war"? | The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War. |
| What was the "emancipation proclamation"? | It was a document, written by President Abraham Lincoln, that freed all of the slaves that were in "states that (were) in rebellion" after Jan. 1, 1863. |
| What states were not addressed by the "emancipation proclamation"? | States that the "emancipation proclamation" did not address were border states. These were slave states that did not secede from the Union: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, & Missouri. |
| What does the term "siege" mean? | This term means "to cut off a city's food supply to try and force them to surrender". |
| What did the 13th Amendment to the Constitution establish? | It established the abolition of slavery in the United States. |
| According to the video we watched, "America: The Story of US - Revolution", what enabled bullets to fly so far and straight? | The invention of "rifling" on the inside of gun barrels. This caused the bullet to spin and fly straight as it left the gun's barrel. |
| Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? (Also known as the "Confederacy" or the "CSA".) | The president of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis. |
| What was the Reconstruction Act meant to accomplish? | Rebuilding the nation after the Civil War. (Pg. 140) |
| List two (2) things that Radical Republicans wanted in government. | 1. Wanted the Republican party to be the dominant party of the South; 2. Prevent the leaders from the Confederacy from returning to power. (Pg. 140) |
| What does the term "amnesty" mean? | This term means "pardon". (Pg. 140) |
| What did the Wade - Davis bill (of 1864) propose? | Required the majority of the adult males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance. (Pg. 142) |
| The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands is also known as _____________________. | The Freedmen's Bureau. (Pg. 142) |
| What did the 14th Amendment call for? | 1. granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.; 2. Declared that no state could deprive a person of "life, liberty, or property without due process of the law"; 3.States can't deny any person "equal protection of the laws". |
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