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Civil War Test
Test Wed. 9/20
Question | Answer |
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Border States | Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Missouri, and Kentucky |
11 Confederate States | South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, and Texas |
Anaconda Plan | plan to capture Mississippi River in order to split the Confederacy |
Secession | formally leaving the USA |
Confederate President | Jefferson Davis |
Why was S.C. treated harsher than the rest of the South? | They seceded first and caused the Civil War. |
What amendment ended slavery? | 13th Amendment |
Total Warfare | taking the war to the South and targeting their resources |
What resources of the Confederacy's were targeted by the Union? | crops, livestock, horses, railroads, factories, and ammunition |
Date and time Lincoln was shot | April 14, 1865 at 10:45 |
Location of Lincoln's assassination | Ford's Theatre |
Who shot Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
General William T. Sherman | led march to the sea; destroyed Atlanta to Savannah and then headed north through the Carolinas; targeted things that were useful to Confederacy (cattle, fields of crops, horses, weapons and ammunition) |
What did he yell when he jumped onto the stage? | "Sic semper tyrranis" and "The south is avenged" |
malice | hate; Lincoln said he held no malice toward anyone from the South |
pillage | raided houses for supplies during war |
Two other targets on day of Lincoln's assassination | Andrew Johnson- VP William Seward- Secretary of State |
Terms of Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse | Confederate Soldiers won't be charged with treason. Soldiers will be given food. Soldiers may take horse/mule home. |
November 8, 1864 | Lincoln was reelected as president for his second term. |
What did Lincoln have visions of while he was president? | He had visions of himself laying in a casket in the White House dead and having people come in to mourn him. He envisioned talking to a guard and asking who died and the guard responding "The President. He has been assassinated." |
Lincoln's Reelection | March 4, 1865, Andrew Johnson as VP; AJ is the opposite party and from the South; Lincoln mentions that he has "malice towards none" including the South. |
Impact Civil War had on South | Left South socially and economically devastated; ended slavery in South; strengthened the federal governments power over states |
Who takes over when president is killed? Who was that in 1865? | Vice President; Andrew Johnson |
54th Massachusetts | led by Robert Gould Shaw; most notable African American Regiment; fought in Ft Wagner |