AICE Flashcard Review: The Civil War

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What was meant to suffocate the South by controlling the Mississippi River and the Southern ports?

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The Anaconda Plan

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Soldiers died in the Civil War fighting for freedom and democracy, so Lincoln wanted to remind Americans of this in his...

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The Gettysburg Address

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As Lincoln’s commander of all Union forces, he made sure that the Northern military effort was unrelenting.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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How did the Civil War end in 1865?

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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.

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The ability to hire a substitute to avoid conscription led to the Civil War being called...

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“a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight”

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It weakened the Confederacy because they couldn’t ship their cotton nor import food.

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naval blockade

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Why did a large number of Southerners turn their backs on the Confederacy? Options: They cared more about their own states than about the new nation as a whole. Many Southerners thought that Robert E. Lee was doing a horrible job as a leader. Many whites had no slaves, so they resented wealthier Southerners’ ability to avoid conscription. They thought slavery was evil and must be stopped throughout the nation.

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Many whites had no slaves, so they resented wealthier Southerners’ ability to avoid conscription.