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Chapter3 Civil War
Bethel 6th Grade SStudies Chapter 3- Civil War/Reconstruction Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the Union strategy for winning the Civil War? | To control the Mississippi River and blockade the southern ports, stopping trade. |
| What was the Confederate strategy for winning the Civil War? | To protect their land from Union attack and to make the war last as long as they could so the Union would get tired and give up. |
| What was the first major battle of the Civil War? | The Battle of Bull Run (aka The Battle of Mannassas) |
| What were the battles that were won by Union forces? | Perryville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Franklin, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, New Orleans, Mobile Bay, Atlanta, Petersburg, Hampton Roads, Antietam (Sharpsburg), Gettysburg |
| What were the battles that were won by Confederate forces? | Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, Cold Harbor, Seven Days, Chickamauga, Kennesaw Mountain, Fort Sumter, Fort Wagner |
| Who joined the Union forces in May 1863? | General Ulysses S. Grant |
| What did Ulysses S. Grant bring to the Union Army that they had not had before? | Military Leadership |
| What did the Union gain in the victory at Vicksburg? | Control of the Mississippi River |
| What did the Union victory at Vicksburg do to the Confederate states? | It split them into two parts- the East and the West |
| What was the significance of the Battle of Mobile Bay? | The Union captured the Confederacy's last major port |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | A document created and signed by Abraham Lincoln that said all enslaved people in areas still fighting against the Union would be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Union could not enforce the law in places under Confederate control |
| How did the Emancipation Proclamation help the Union? | Thousands of freed African Americans fled to areas behind the Northern battle lines which added many people to the Union's military. They also gain support from the British and French |
| Who was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment? | One of the best-known African American groups in the Union army that led an attack on Fort Wagner in South Carolina |
| What did most women do to help in the war effort? | Worked in factories, businesses, and farms- also sent food to the troops and collected supplies |
| What was the significance of the Battle of Gettysburg? | Lee's badly defeated Confederate army was never again able to launch a major attack again the Union |
| What happened as a result of Sherman's March to the Sea? | Army cut a path of destruction 60 miles wide and 300 miles long- they burned homes, stores, destroyed crops, and tore up railroad tracks through Georgia |
| Before the Confederate troops left Richmond, Virginia, what did they do? | Set fire to the city |
| Why did Lee's men (Confederates) finally have to surrender? | A farmhouse at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia |
| What tragic event happened on April 14, 1865? | President Lincoln was assassinated |
| Who was accused of assassinating the president? | John Wilkes Booth |
| Who took over as president after Lincoln's death? | Vice President Andrew Johnson |
| Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach Johnson? | He fired the Secretary of War, Edward Stanton |
| What happened to President Johnson? | Senate put Johnson on trial but there was not enough cotes to remove him from office. He was acquitted |
| Whose plan for Reconstruction aimed to punish the South? | Congress's plan |
| What amendment to the Constitution made African Americans citizens of the United States? | Fourteenth Amendment |
| what helped to provide former enslaved people with an education? | the Freedmen's Bureau |
| How did the end of Reconstruction change life in the South? | African Americans lost many of the rights they had gained |
| blockade | to use ships to block or isolate a port or an island |
| retreat | to fall back |
| emancipate | to free |
| prejudice | unfair feeling of dislike for members of a certain group because of their background, race, or religion |
| Reconstruction | a period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War |
| black codes | laws that limited the rights of former enslaved people |
| impeach | to accuse a government official of a crime |
| acquit | to find not guilty |
| freedmen | men, women, and children who had been enslaved |
| secret ballot | a voting method in which no one knows how anyone else has voted |
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