2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Advantages / Disadvantages War Time Strategies Battles of the Civil War War Time Politics Chapter 1 Potpourri

This participant in the Civil War had the advantage of population

What is the Union?

This participant in the Civil War had the advantage of having the best military Generals

What is the Confederacy

This manufacturing advantage allowed the North to engage in a War of Attrition against the South

What is industrialization

This new technological advantage named the Merrimack allowed the Confederates to break the blockade around Hampton Roads VA

What is an Ironclad

The North’s ability to do this would inevitably lead to their victory over the South

Replace men and equipment at a faster rate than the Confederacy

In hopes of ending the war quickly Lincoln order General McClellan to take this city in Virgina

What is Richmond?

The Confederacy believed if they withheld cotton exports they could force these two European nations into the War on their side

What is Britain and France

The Union’s plan developed by Winfield Scott called for a blockade of southern ports as well taking control of the Mississippi river.

What is the Anaconda Plan?

By 1863 and after the Confederate victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. The Southern strategy changed to this.

What is hold out until the 1864 election

In 1863 Robert E Lee led the Confederate Northern Virginia Army into Southern PA looking to find supplies as well hoping to do this.

What is provoke a confrontation and decisively defeat the Union on Northern soil - Hoping to turn the tide of Northern public opinion against Lincoln

This battle marked the beginning the American Civil War

What is the Battle of Ft. Sumter

This was the first major land battle of the Civil War

What is the First Battle of Bull Run or 1 st Manassas

The Union gained access to the Cumberland River after winning these two battles

What is Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson

After the South won these two battles some northern leaders began to talk about making peace with the South

What is Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville

The results of this battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi and thus cut the South in two.

What is Vicksburg

Both the North and South created this in an effort to increase the numbers in their armies

What is the Draft

The North enacted the first one of these in American history in an effort to raise money for the war.

What is an income Tax

Without southern democrats in congress the republican controlled congress was able to do this

Pass a law calling for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad

To guarantee that Kentucky, as a border state, would stay in the Union and not succeed Lincoln imposed this on Kentucky.

What is Martial Law

In an effort to suppress anyone who opposed the war among the Northern population President Lincoln suspended this

What is the writ of habeas corpus

Archeologists think the first Americans may have traveled over a land bridge between Alaska and….

What is Asia?

After the French and Indian War Britain Abandoned their policy of Salutary Neglect because of this.

What is they wanted the Colonies to help pay for the War?

This man, the Father of the Constitution, believed that, through proper government people could take control of themselves

Who is James Madison

This 1803 landmark supreme court case gave the Supreme Court the ability to rule on the constitutionality of legislation thus creating the principle of Judicial Review

What is Marbury v. Madison

This referred to the idea that Americans would inevitably move west and possess the entire continental United States

What is Manifest Destiny