SS8H5 Test Review

What is a Civil War?

• A war between two different races of people

• A war between to factions of people of the same country

• A war that is on a global scale

• A war on religion

What is the Union Blockade/Anaconda Plan? What happend to the South becasue these plans were implemented?

• It was a blockaed the Southern ports. This caused high inflation and shortages on many of the good/materials needed for the war.

• A force of men sent to ravage the south and destroy anything in their way. This ended the war rather quickly.

• Lincoln released thousands of anaconda snaked that surrounded the south in order to strike fear in the southern soldiers. This led to a quick and seamless end to the American Civil War.

• A blocking of Northern Ports. This plan in advertantly helped the south because they were able to import even more goods.

Andersonville is a overcrowded Prisoner of War camp. Basic essentials to use to live were in extremely short supplu like clean water, food, and clothes. Of the following which would be the most life theatening/dangerous for the POW's to face?

• Tourture by confederate generals

• Water and air bourne illnesses

• Georgia Storms

• Being sent to fight for the south

General William Sherman led the Union Army through much of the South during the Civil War. Two of his major contributions were the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea. Choose the TWO statements that describe similarities between these two Civil War events.

• They were both short battles, only lasting a few hours each.

• The Confederate Army won major victories over the Union Army.

• Sherman and his army forced the Confederate Army to surrender.

• Very few Union or Confederate lives were lost in these events.

• Farms, buildings, properties, and homes were burned to the ground.

The military action in what city gave the Union Army complete control over Confederate rail lines in the "Deep South" and set the stage for Sherman's "March to the Sea"?

• Battle of Chattanooga

• Battle of Savanah

• Battle of Atlanta

• Battle of Rome

Which act, that came out of the Compromise of 1850, angered the North the most?

• The Popular Sovereignty Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• 36*30* Slavery Allowance Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1888

The idea of Nullification, to make something null and viod, came out of what event the angered the south while trying to help the north?

• Tariff of 1828

• Compromise of 1860

• Election of 1960

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What were the 2 hot-button issued that led to the American Civil War?

• Slavery and States Rights

• Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal

• California Gold Rush and Missouri Compromise

• Election of James K.Polk and the passage of the Northwest Ordinance

What happened as a direct result of Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860?

• South Carolina and many other southern states seceeded from the Union

• Michigan came in as a free state

• California was rejected as a state because of population loss

• Confederate forced attacted Richmond, Virginia.

Which battle is remebered as the bloodiest battle in Georgia while being the 2nd bloodiest over all in the Civil War?

• Battle of Pulaski

• Battle of Atlanta

• Battle of Chickamauga

• Battle of Kenesaw Mountain