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Chapter 16 Section 1
Question | Answer |
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Where were the first shots in the Civil War fired? | Fort Sumter |
Who won the battle at Fort Sumter? | The South |
What did the North learn at Fort Sumter? | It would not be easy to defeat the South |
What group of states seceded from the Union? | Most of the slave states |
What was some advantages for the North? | They had money, a network of canals, railroads and roads and a large population. |
What was NOT an advantage of the South? | battles on foreign soils |
How did women take part in the war? | served as nurses |
What was Fort Sumter? | Was a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina attacked by the confederate troops starting the civil war. |
What were the border states? | Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri ( slave states that did not secede) |
What was Winfield Scott's two plan strategy? | To gain control of the Mississippi River and to destroy the Souths economy with a naval blockade of southern ports. |
What was the Cotton diplomacy? | Great Britain idea that would support the Confederacy. |
Who was the first woman to get her medical license? | Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. |
What did farmers have an advantage with rifles? | They knew how to make rifles and were not afraid of killing live things. |