Chapter 16 Study Guide

1. The first shots of the Civil War were fired when the Confederates seized Fort Sumter.

2. Ironclads were a new type of military technology introduced in the Civil War.

3. Ironclads were warships that were covered with iron.

4. The first ironclad battle ended in a draw.

5. Two days after the surrender of Fort Sumter Lincoln asked the Union States to provide 75,000 militiamen for Ninety days.

6. The first major battle of the Civil War was the Battle of Bull Run.

7. The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest one-day battle ever fought by Americans.

8. Ulysses S. Grant was an important Union general in the West.

9. A Confederate invasion of the North was stopped at Battle of Shiloh.

10. The Battle of Shiloh was won by Grant's forces.

11. George McClellan was the commander of the Union army in the East.

12. Lee's troops were defeated at the Battle of Antietam.

13. The Battle of Shiloh took place in Tennessee.

14. The Seven Days' Battle saved Richmond from capture by the Union army.

15. The capture of which city advanced the Union's goal of dividing the Confederacy in two? New Orleans

16. Which cautious Union commander failed to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond and was fired by Lincoln? George McClellan

17. On what did the South's strategy to win foreign support depend? King Cotton

18. Which change in military technology most increased the casualty rate? Rifles with minié balls

19. What city would have been surrounded by the Confederacy if Maryland had seceded? Washington, D.C.

20. Some officials in the Northern border states did not want to provide troops to fight against other slave states.

21. Southerners fired on Fort Sumter and triggered the fighting between the North and the South?

22. One Northern strategy for winning the Civil War was to cut off the South's imports and exports with a naval blockade

23. The North had a superior railway system, which could efficiently transport troops and supplies.

24. The North's capture of New Orleans a serious blow to the South?

25. New Orleans was the largest city in the South and a major port.

26. Northerners most eager to go to war not to prevent the spread of slavery but to preserve the Union .

27. Southerners referred to their cotton crop as "King Cotton".

28. The Battle of Antietam resulted in the bloodiest day in all of American history.

29. The leaders of some border states did not want to provide troops to fight against the South.

30. The Union navy’s blockade of the South was designed to weaken the South's economy by cutting off its trade.

31. The South’s strategy for fighting the war was to withhold cotton from the world market to pressure Britain and France to help the South.

32. Fort Sumter was located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

33. The South's economy put it at a disadvantage in the Civil War because the South did not have the industries it needed to make war supplies.

34. Southern forces attacked Fort Sumter the first shots fired to start of the Civil War

35. The South had a poor internal Industrial system because it depended on exports.

36. During the Civil War Diseases spread throughout camp because of unsanitary practices.

37. One advantage the South had was they It did not have to invade and conquer the North in order to win.

38. The Capitol of the Confederacy during the Civil War was Richmond Virginia.

39. Who was the President of the United States during the Civil war? Abraham Lincoln

40. The military strategy developed by Union general Winfield Scott to smother the South's economy became known as the Anaconda Plan.

41. During the Civil War, most of the Railroad, manufacturing and population was located in the Northern States.

42. George Washington (1789-1797)

43. John Adams (1797-1801)

44. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)

45. James Madison (1809-1817)

46. James Monroe (1817-1825)

47. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)

48. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837

49. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)

50. William Henry Harrison (1841)

51. John Tyler (1841-1845)

52. James K. Polk (1845-1849)

53. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)

54. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)

55. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)

56. James Buchanan (1857-1861)

57. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

58. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)

59. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)