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U.s history Study
answers to Mrs picketts study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gettysburg= | turning point of civil war. |
| before burning Atlanta | General Sherman ordered all civilians to leave. |
| Union's defeat at the First battle of Bull Run | prompted by Lincoln to increase enlistment to 500,00 for 3 years. |
| Battle of Antietam | bloodiest on day battle in the war; also South lost its best chance at gaining international recognition and support. |
| War democrats vs. Peace democrats | Peace democrats= copperheads |
| Trent affair | brought the union close to war with Britian |
| Advantages and strategies of N&S | at the start of the civil war, the south had more trained military leaders and most of the country's military colleges. |
| North | larger population, more industry, more miles of railroad tracks. |
| Norths plan proposed | blockading confederate ports, controlling the Mississippi river with gunboats, and dividing the confederacy and exhausting its resources, forcing surrender. |
| Finances for N&S | South suffered more inflation and critical shortages during the Civil war than the North. |
| Finances for North | the north experienced an economic boom because of the civil war. |
| the Legal tender act | allowed the government to issue paper money, which came to be known as greenbacks, because of its color. |
| Robert E. Lee | did not accept command of the union troops because he could not fight against Virginia. |
| Lincoln fired McClellan | he gave command to a series of generals including: Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Grant. |
| Militia act | Introduced by Congress in the summer of 1862, required states to draft people by military service called conscription. |
| Anaconda Plan | Proposed by Winfield Scott |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Announced freedom for enslaved persons only in states in rebellion(states at war with Union). |
| 54th Massachusetts regiment & African Americans in the war | among the first African American regiments officially organized in the North, fought valiantly at Fort Wagner. |
| Clara Barton | Decided to leave her job in a patent office to nurse soldiers on the battlefields. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | led to the creation of the United States Sanitary Commission. |
| Florence Nightingdale | Inspired American women to take on nursing tasks in army hospitals. |
| Appomattox | Lee surrendered to Grant here, ending the Civil War. |
| Lincoln's assassination | Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. |
| 13th amendment | banned slavery in the U.S. |
| Siege | cutting off supplies and bombarding the city until its defenders gave up. |
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