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Stack #4624078
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| date that SC seceded from the union | dec 20, 1860 |
| Who was the president of the confederacy? | Jefferson Davis |
| Reason SC signed the ordinance of secession | federal government infringed on their constitutional rights by the preservation of Slavery- violated their state rights |
| Who is James Lewis Petirgu is? | SC Unionist and lawyer who opposed succession |
| What fort was the first shots on the civil war | fort Sumter |
| What was the Anaconda Plan | blockade Southern ports, take control of the Mississippi River, take the confederate capital of Richmond VA, and retain the loyalty of the five border states |
| What was the border states? | slave states of Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware |
| What was theSouth’s Defensive Strategy? | Repel attacks, break the naval blockade, and gain foreign aid from Britain and France |
| 10,000 Gullah plantation slaves were liberated and rehabilitated here in 1861. What was this called? | Port Royal Experiment |
| the day that Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War on Fort Sumter | April 12, 1861 |
| What is Blockade? | the act of sealing off a place to prevent goods from entering and leaving |
| Confederate ships that would attempt to sneak past the naval blockade to import and export goods. What were they called | Blockade Runners |
| Who was the general who was forced to surrender to Fort Sumter and raise the American Flag over it in 1865 | General Robert Anderson |
| Who was the former slave who helped the emancipated slaves at Port Royal and acted as a scout and spy for the Union Army | Harriot Tubman |
| Who was the first African American captain for the US Navy ? | Robert Smalls |
| a Confederate submarine during the Civil War, famous as the first submarine to sink an enemy warship, the USS Housatonic, in 1864 | The Hunley |
| What battle resulted in loss of the port and partial control of the Mississippi | The battle of New Orleans |
| What was the result of The siege of Vicksburg | resulted in the loss of the Mississippi which split the confederacy in two |
| March to the sea | a brutal campaign from Atlanta to Savannah scorched earth policy |
| What did General William T. Sherman do? | in Battle of Vicksburg Atlanta to Savannah -scortch earth to break the South's will and resources |
| What is the 13th amendment? | outlawed Slavery |
| the day that Lee surrendered to Grant | April 9th 1865 |
| Where did Lee surrender to Grant? | he Appomattox Courthouse |
| What is theTwenty-Slave Law | allowed planters who owned 20+ slaves to avoid service if they hired a substitute |
| How many Native American Soldiers were there and who did they fight for? | an estimated 3,000-4,000 the confederates |
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