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Civil War
AP US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Geographically why was secession impractical? | The land is bound together, physically impossible to move it |
| How can Europe benefit from America divided? | They can ignore Monroe Doctrine, and send their influence into a weaker country |
| The Border States, who were they and why were they important? | Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, they were the only states left in the Union that were slave states. The had the highest white population. |
| Why did Lincoln have to be careful in stating the North's war aims? | He wanted to keep the Border States loyal to the Union. He couldn't say it was a fight to the free the blacks, said it was a fight to save the Union |
| How are Native Americans involved? | They sided w/ the confederacy, some of the Indians owned slaves |
| How did the Civil War cause family problems ? | Mostly in the border states a family decided and were separated based on if they wanted to volunteer in the North or South |
| How did the working class in GB and France feel about North vs South? | They wanted the North to win because many were anti-slavery (Uncle Tom's Cabin) Also they didn't want the slaves to take all the jobs |
| Why doesn't the South's "cotton weapon" bring GB help? | Britain became overstocked and India and Egypt also exported cotton |
| Trent Affair | A Union warship stopped a British mail ship near Cuba and forced them to surrender two confederates, Britain was offended because they're the big naval power, US finally surrendered no need for war |
| Union passed a draft law, how was it biased against the poor? | Unfair because rich boys could hire substitutes to go in their place or pay $300 for exemption |
| 1863 Draft Riots | In New York city, poor anti-black immigrants didn't want to fight for abolition (racist) |
| Confederate passed a draft law, how was it unfair against the poor? | Slave owners with more than 20 slaves were exempted. The rich could also hire someone or buy their way out. |
| Southern currency during the war? | Printing too much money, result is inflation |
| New class of wealthy industrialists | Made bad quality shoes and uniforms for soldiers |
| Benefit of Bull Run | Although the Union lost because Confederate troops came unexpectedly, it was beneficial to the Union because it was an eye opener |
| Battle of Antietam | one of the bloodiest battles, union wins cause s the world to see them and not want to give foreign aid to the South |
| Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation | changed the war from just saving the Union but to emancipating slaves, it freed the salves in the Confederate but not in the Union because he didn't want to offend the Border States |
| Effect of Proclamation | Slaves runaway to Union camps and welcomed into the Union army. It did away with the Fugitive Slave Law |
| In beginning of the war policy on black volunteers? | The regular army had no blacks and the War Department refused to accept blacks |
| Reasons why blacks volunteered in the war? | to fight against slavery, prove their manhood and strengthen their citizenship |
| Lee hope of the Battle of Gettysburg | Hope to attract foreign aid (England or France) |
| Lincoln's Gettysburg Address | To honor the ones who died in war. Received very little hype at the time but went on to become very famous |
| Ulysses Grant victory at Vicksburg, MS | Vicksburg was the backbone of the Confederacy, it was on the Mississippi River big trade center |
| Total war | to destroy the opponents supplies and weaken their morale.to ruin them mentally, civilians are involved |
| How does William Techseh Sherman conquer Georgia? | Went on a sixty-mile destruction path, burning buildings, tearing road rails, destroying their supplies (TOTAL WAR) |
| In the Union, how did the Democratic Party divide? | War Democrats supported Lincoln's administration and was willing to keep fighting and Peace Democrats wanted to stop the war and were willing to settle |
| Copper Heads | racist, willing to make a deal with the South.Hated the draft, Lincoln and emancipation. Wanted political power in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, some in Kentucky |
| Why is a negotiated settlement impossible between Union and Confederates? | Lincoln didn't want to accept anything that didn't have to do with Union and emancipation. The south didn't want to accept anything that didn't have to do with independence |
| Lincoln assassination? | John Wilkes Booth, Southern actor, killed Lincoln in Ford theatre |
| economic situation of the South after the war? | banks and business were shut down, factories weren't running, transportation system broke down, nothing but fields filled with weeds |
| Exodusters | Large amount of blacks that migrated to Kansas |
| Black religion | became a focus point, opportunity to have their own churches/ministers |
| black education | many generations in one classroom, northern volunteer white women as teachers |
| Freedman Bureau's intentions? | similar to welfare (funded by gov), sought to care for freedman that didn't know how to live on their own, provided food, clothing, medical care and education |
| Freedman Bureau outcome? | Successful in education, had a lot of land to give out to the blacks , only very few actually got it |
| How did Johnson end up on Lincoln's ticket? | Lincoln put him on to attract support from War Democrats and other Pro-Southern elements for the Union Party |
| Lincoln's 10% plan | a state could be brought back into the Union when 10% of its voters have pledge to follow emancipation |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Overrode 10% plan, required 50% of voters plege of allegiance to the US and stronger safeguards for emancipation, failed because Lincoln pocket vetoed it |
| Moderate Republicans (Lincoln) on restoration | Seceded states should be brought back to Union as simply and quickly as reasonably through Congress |
| Radical Republicans | South should suffer more, planters punished and the blacks protected by federal power |
| Black codes | Laws the enforce a stable labor force, strict and harsh |
| Sharecropping | Working off debt, sometimes for generations |
| Civil Rights Bill | Becomes the 14th amendment, granted citizenship, reduced representation in congress in the South, didn't allow former Confederates in federal state and office |
| How do the Southern black form politically once they have suffrage? | Form Union League, a network of political clubs that educated members and campaigned for Republican candidates |
| Carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the South in search of power and profit, they wanted to modernize the South |
| Ku Klux Klan | Terrorist group, Masked night triders that would go out and terrorize blacks and if I didn't work they would kill them |
| Tenure of Office Act | Required the president to get permission from the Senate before removing people from the cabinet |
| Seward's Folly | Russia sold Alaska to Seward because they knew it was going to be taken from Britain through a potentials war |
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