Unit 6: Civil War & Reconstruction

How were the economies of the North and South different?

• The South was industrial and North was agricultural.

• The North was industrial and the South was agricultural

• They weren't different

• The North relied on fishing and the South relied on hunting

A major advantage of the north in the Civil War was

• A moral reason to inspire the army to fight
• The ability to supply the army with its manufacturing and shipping power
• Well trained military officers
• Knowledge of southern terrain

Sherman wanted to capture Atlanta because:

• It was a major railroad hub and its capture would disrupt southern industry
• It was the southern capital and its capture would end the war
• It was the only city that interfered with Union trade on the Mississippi River
• It was the home to Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia

The Union army’s March to the Sea was an example of this military strategy to defeat the south:

• Hit and run
• Guerilla warfare
• “total warfare”
• Divide through fear and isolation

The confederate defeat at Vicksburg was important because: 

• Ended the last major offensive of the Confederate army
• It split the Confederacy in half at the Mississippi River
• Caused the resignation of Jefferson Davis as president of the Confederacy
• Forced Robert E Lee to leave Virginia and take over the campaigns in the west

In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln said “a house divided cannot stand”. What did he mean?

• He wanted to keep the Union together
• He wanted to divide the Nation
• He wanted some slave states and free states
• He wanted the people to decide the issue of slave

A former senator from Mississippi, he was the President of the Confederacy. 

• Stonewall Jackson
• Jefferson Davis
• Alexander Stephens
• Ulysses S. Grant 

This site was the first battle of the Civil War. The federal arsenal in the Charleston Harbor was fired upon and forced to surrender in 1861. 

• Fort Sumter
• Antietam
• Vicksburg
• Atlanta 

This was an offer to free the slaves in the Confederate States, while maintaining slavery in the few states that remained loyal to the union.

• Gettysburg Address
• 13^th Amendment
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Compromise of 1850 

The North was able to keep their economy producing during the Civil War due to the fact that the north had more:

• Slaves

• Cotton

• Plantations

• Railroads