Chapter 1 Review: The Civil War

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States was called a(n)

• confederacy
• abolitionist
• musician
• legend

What was the purpose of Sherman's March to the Sea?

• To demoralize southern civilians and troops into abandoning the cause of the confederacy
• To campaign for southern states to vote for Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860
• To lead a group of freed slaves into southern plantations killing the slave masters
• to campaign the try and convince the confederacy to move from a defensive strategy to more of an offensive strategy and invade the north.

The term that means to break away from a group like the southern states broke away from the Union is

• migrate
• emancipation
• abalotion
• secede

Why did Gen. Winfield Scott create the Anaconda Plan?

• To deomonstrate how to handle the harsh, swamp lands of the southern states
• To limit bloodshed by strangling the south with a naval blockade and seizure of the Mississippi River Valley.
• To demoralize the confederate army
• To recruit more civilians from the north to join the Union army.

Which of the following events was a cause of the Civil War?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe's publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
• Election of 1860 (Lincoln wins)
• all of the above

Why was Lincoln reluctant to announce slavery as a cause of the Civil War?

• He did not want to lose support of the border states such as Maryland, Kentucky, and Delaware
• to prevent the southern states from seceding from the Union 
• Lincoln was in favor of slavery and did not want anyone to get the idea that he did not want to see slavery thrive after the Civil War
• he feared he would have lost support from the northern states

________, a Virginian who recently declined the offer to be the commanding general of the union army, became the commanding general of the confederate army.

• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

What happened to Gen. Lee and his army as a result of the battle of Gettysburg

• After winning the battle Lee and his forces continued their campaign north into New York
• He was forced to retreatback into southern territory where he and his army would never again attempt to advance his efforts into northern territories
• Lee and his army was defeated and the Civil War had officially come to an end.
• Lee and his forces fled back to the south and eventually they all deserted the cause and fled west

How did the capture of Vicksburg incidentally put the framework of the Anaconda Plan into place

• destroyed all hope for the Union of winning the Civil War
• gave the confederacy easy access to the northern states by travel through the Mississippi river
• created a new trading port for the Confederacy with Great Britain
• it gave control of the Mississippi river Valley to the Union army and divided the confederacy in two

This battle is considered by many historians to be the turning point of the Civil War.

• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• Fredricksburg
• Antietam