US History Civil War Test Review

The Union war strategy included ​ (a)   .

• using the railroads to deliver supplies
• using a strategy of attrition

Identify the Anaconda Plan used by the Union to create a naval blockade of the Confederacy- depriving it of foreign trade and the ability to import and manufacture materials necessary for the war effort. Use the drawing tool to make a rough outline of the plan

Answer explanation

The basic plan was to blockade the saltwater ports of the South and to stop all commerce on the Mississippi River so no cotton could be exported and no war material (such as rifles or ammunition from Europe) could be imported.

The assumption was that the states that allowed enslavement, feeling considerable economic punishment if they continued the rebellion, would return to the Union before any major battles would be fought.

The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to enslaved people in the ​ (a)  

• Southern ( Confederate States)
• Border States
• The entire country

Match the following

• Lee's Surrender to Grant- End War

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Mary Walker

• Union Army leader - after Gettysburg

• General Grant

• Surgeon- Civil War , Medal of Honor

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Union Advantages

,

(b) Confederacy Advantages

,

(c) Union Weaknesses

,

(d) Confederacy Weaknesses

• better weapons and industrial output

• Larger population

• Little industry to provide for the weapons

  needed for war

• Morale and motivation for war was not

  as high

• larger and more well trained army

• Poor transportation systems

• Needed to fight an offensive war as

  opposed to a defensive one

• Able to play defensive

• Depended on foreign imports for goods

  cities

• No navy whatsoever

• Brilliant generals

• Experienced Navy

• Did not expect the war to be so difficult

• No foreign allinaces or help

• fighting on home turf

• Smaller population

• More railroad and developed

  transportation systems

General Sherman defeated the south using this tactic:

• Total War

• Guerilla Warfare

• The Anaconda Plan

• Emancipation of Slaves

What were the major causes of the Civil War? (List all that apply)

• Expanded Fugitive Slave Laws

• Slavery

• Westward Expansion

• Lincoln winning the election of 1860

• All of these

What Amendment grants citizenship to all person born on American soil except for Native Americans.

• The 14th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

• The 13th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

Slavery is outlawed in the US by this amendment:

• The 13th Amendment

• The 14th Amendment

• The 15th Amendment

• The 16th Amendment

Match the following

• SCOTUS

  enslaved could not sue - not free

• Dred Scott Decision

• popular sovereignty on issue of slavery

• Compromise of 1850

• Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,

  Missouri

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Agreement over slave states & free state

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Part of the Compromise of 1850

• Border states