Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
63 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
What did Lincoln say regarding secession?
|
"physically speaking, we cannot separate"
|
|
|
Name two problems of uncontested secession.
|
Nation debt?
Fugitive slave law enforced? |
|
|
Where was location of beginning of civil war?
|
Fort Sumter SC Charleston
|
|
|
Lincoln said he wished to ____ the fort not to _____
|
provision not reinforce
|
|
|
Following Fort Sumter Lincoln called for
|
assembling of 75 thousand troops
and blockade of southern ports |
|
|
After Fort Sumter four states joined secession.
|
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, NC
|
|
|
New capital at
|
Richmond Virginia instead of Montgomery Alabama
|
|
|
Name the border states
|
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia
|
|
|
"mountain white" area
|
WV
|
|
|
Lincoln said he hope to have god on his side, but had to have _____
|
Kentucky
|
|
|
Mini civil war in which state
|
Missouri
|
|
|
Notable Indian tribe that owned slaves and sided with south
|
Cherokees
|
|
|
Who did the Confederate states invite to their congress?
|
Native Americans
|
|
|
Senator Crittenden of Kentucky had...
|
a union son and a confederate son
|
|
|
Leader of south
Chief lieutenant |
Robert Lee
"Stonewall" Jackson |
|
|
New technology of war...
South failed to realize importance of.... |
Federal Mortar
Railroad |
|
|
What was the South's greatest weakness and the North's greatest strength
|
economy
|
|
|
Von Moltke said Civil war was fought by
|
"armed mobs"
|
|
|
Civil war soldiers represented ___% of pop
|
10
|
|
|
Stereotype for each side
|
"billy yank"
"Johnny Reb" |
|
|
What took twice as many lives as bullets?
|
disease
|
|
|
Pop of North
Pop of South |
22M
9M |
|
|
Northern leader
|
Ulysses Grant
|
|
|
What have previous sucessful revolutions relied upon?
|
foreign intervention
|
|
|
What caused france and Britain not to intervene?
|
Uncle Tom's Cabin angered many citizens to side of North
|
|
|
% of American cotton in Britain
|
75
|
|
|
Two new producers of cotton
|
Egypt and India
|
|
|
First Crisis with Britain
|
Trent affair
|
|
|
Notable pirate like confederate ship that captured more that 250 Yankee ships
|
Alabama
|
|
|
After releasing prisoners of Trent, Lincoln said...
|
"one war at a time"
|
|
|
"British pirate"
|
Alabama
|
|
|
American minister in Britain
|
Charles Adams
|
|
|
Third crisis with the building of the...
|
Laird rams
|
|
|
Adams said _____ if ships were released from British harbor
|
"this is war"
|
|
|
Alabama captain name and escape by?
|
Semmes escaped aboard English yacht
|
|
|
Who often invaded Canada?
|
Irish
|
|
|
British establish ___ in 1867
|
Dominion of Canada
|
|
|
Napoleon III of france sent ____ to ____ which defied the _____
|
Maximilian, Mexico, Monroe Doctrine
|
|
|
Mexican national hero
|
Benito Juarez
|
|
|
One of problems of South
|
getting states to send troops outside their state bounds
|
|
|
Three things Lincoln did that were unconstitutional
|
Proclaimed a blockade
increased size of federal army advanced 2M to private civilian for security suspended writ of habeas corpus |
|
|
first what law in civil war?
|
conscription
|
|
|
unfair to the poor... rich could ______
|
pay 300 to avoid conscription
|
|
|
they were named
|
"three hundred dollar men"
|
|
|
Certain riot on issue of conscription
|
New York Draft Riots
|
|
|
% of union volunteers
|
90
|
|
|
ages for conscription in south?
|
17-50
|
|
|
slaveowners who had ___ slaves were exempt
|
20 or more
|
|
|
many complained the war was a
|
"rich man's war but a poor man's fight"
|
|
|
New tax levied in North
|
Income tax
|
|
|
Congress passed a _____ raising existing duties by 5-10 %
|
Morrill Tariff Act
|
|
|
Key part of Repub party
|
protective tariff
|
|
|
Currency supported by gold in north
|
Greenbacks
|
|
|
Financial landmark of war
|
National Banking System
|
|
|
inflation % in N/S
|
S 9000%
N 80% |
|
|
Machine that changed fabricating of uniforms
|
sewing machine
|
|
|
____ allowed farm boys to go off to war
|
reapers
|
|
|
What was discovered in 1859?
|
petroleum
|
|
|
Only northern industry that suffered because of war?
|
ocean carrying trade
|
|
|
First female physician.. she formed the
|
Blackwell... US Sanitary Commission
|
|
|
New profession that came out of war for women
|
nursing
|
|
|
Superintendents of nurses for Union army
|
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton |
|
|
Ran a Richmond infirmary for wounded Confederate soldiers and was awarded the rank of captain
|
Sally Tompkins
|
