civil war 8th grade
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| What event led to the start of the Civil War and when did it occur? | show 🗑
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| How did the issue of secession contribute to the attack on Fort Sumter? | show 🗑
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| Why were the border states significant? | show 🗑
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| Describe the strategy of the North | show 🗑
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| show | People tried to recruit each other, and also put aside friendship to work their hardest in the war.
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| show | because with it's strong military tradition, they hired them and Southern farms provided food for their army.
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| show | Wear down North and capture Washington D.C. and win foreign allies with cotton diplomacy.
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| List three ways the southerm strategy benefited from the fact that the North had to invade and control the South | show 🗑
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| In what ways did civilians support the troops? | show 🗑
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| What problems did both armies face during the war? | show 🗑
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| What types of supplies were issued to soldiers? | show 🗑
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| show | First Manassas and Confederacy
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| show | George B. McLellan and the Army of the Potomac
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| Who became the new leader of the Confederate Army and what skills did he bring to the job? | show 🗑
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| show | Lee attacks in Summer 1862, forced Union army to retreat from near Richmond.
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| How did Jackson's defeat of General Pope's Union forces at the Second Battle of Bull Run affect Lee's plans? | show 🗑
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| show | With a major victory on Northern soil
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| show | Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson-Confederate and George B. McLellan-Union. Strategic Union
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| show | Union because they had enough industry to build more ships
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| show | Because you could have a blockade to stop trade and ruin economy and sneak attack on other states
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| How did the ironclads signal a revolution in naval warfare? | show 🗑
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| show | Taking control of the Mississippi River
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| Why was Grant considered the victor at the Battle of Shiloh? | show 🗑
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| How was Admiral Farragut able to capture New Orleans? | show 🗑
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| Why did Grant decide to starve Vicksburg into surrender? | show 🗑
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| What early actions did Confederate forces take to try to control lands west of the Mississippi River? | show 🗑
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| Why did some Cherokee fight for the South? | show 🗑
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| show | General Ambrose E. Burnside
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| How did Burnside's tactics differ from McLellan's? | show 🗑
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| When did the battle of Gettysburg begin, and what event triggered the start of the battle? | show 🗑
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| Who had the best military position at the start of the battle, and why was the position a good one? | show 🗑
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| Describe Pickett's Charge | show 🗑
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| At what event did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? | show 🗑
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| In the Gettysburg Address, how did Lincoln express the reasons for which the war was being fought? | show 🗑
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| show | Ulysses S. Grant, and General William Tecumseh Sherman
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| What was the Wilderness Campaign? | show 🗑
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| show | because he had been able to travel to Richmond
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| What were two consequences of Sherman's victories in the South? | show 🗑
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| How did Grant cut off Lee's escape to North Carolina? | show 🗑
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| show | Bad, running out of everything
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| show | Grant didn't hate him, he gave them food and allowed them to keep their horses. Found surrender tragic rather than joyful
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