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

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Lee's Surrender to Grant- End War

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Union Army leader - after Gettysburg

• General Grant

• Surgeon- Civil War , Medal of Honor

• Mary Walker

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Union Advantages

,

(b) Confederacy Advantages

,

(c) Union Weaknesses

,

(d) Confederacy Weaknesses

• Poor transportation systems

• Did not expect the war to be so difficult

• More railroad and developed

  transportation systems

• Morale and motivation for war was not

  as high

• No navy whatsoever

• Able to play defensive

• Brilliant generals

• Depended on foreign imports for goods

  cities

• Larger population

• fighting on home turf

• larger and more well trained army

• better weapons and industrial output

• No foreign allinaces or help

• Little industry to provide for the weapons

  needed for war

• Experienced Navy

• Smaller population

• Needed to fight an offensive war as

  opposed to a defensive one

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

• Part of the Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Agreement over slave states & free state

• Border states

• SCOTUS

  enslaved could not sue - not free

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware,

  Missouri

• Compromise of 1850

• popular sovereignty on issue of slavery

• Kansas- Nebraska Act