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Quest of a Hemisp 16
Quest of a Hemisph 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Robert E. Lee | Led the confederate forces during the Civil War; defended Richmond,Virginia (the capital of the Confederacy) |
| Civil War | War Between the States |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Appointed Commander of the Union forces in Tennessee and Mississippi; Conquered Vicksburg opening the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico which cut the South in two |
| Thomas J. Jackson | Confederate officer in Civil War; nicknamed “Stonewall Jackson” at battle of Bull Run when his brigade “ stood like a stone wall” during the heat of battle |
| First shot of the Civil War | At Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor on January 9, 1861 |
| Advantages for the South | *Many officers were graduates of West Point *Soldiers knew the forests well and knew how to hunt & live off the land |
| Advantages for the North | * Had factories to make guns & needed supplies * Had a network of railroads for transporting soldiers & supplies |
| Merrimack and Monitor | Ironclads: wooden ships covered with iron or steel armor platesE |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free. ( by order of President Abraham Lincoln) |
| Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not end slavery. | It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. |
| Sic Semper Tyrannis | “Thus be it always to tyrants.” State motto of Virginia; quoted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot President Lincoln. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Man who shot President Lincoln at Ford’s theater. |
| Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. |
| 13th Amendment to the Constitution | Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime- shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. |
| What was the Union plan to defeat the Confederacy ? | * Blockade parts of the southern states * Take control of the Mississippi and divide the Confederacy * Capture Richmond ( Confederate capitol) |
| Significant events during the Civil War | *Attack on Fort Sumter * Union blockade * Emancipation Proclamation * Battle of Gettysburg * General Robert E. Lee surrenders |
| 3 causes of the Civil War | * slavery *states' rights *westward expansion |
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