Chapter 18 questions

Chap.18 study questions

7.) It allowed them to transport goods all over the country, and they could bring food and supplies to the workers.

8.) It began in Victoria, Texas.

9.) Fertile land, for farming, and the buffalos.

10.) African American settlers, who migrated from southern states into Kansas in the late 1870’s.

11.) There was a lack of moisture, flash floods would wipe out all their crop, and when they planted it down deep the plants would not produce large crop yields.

12.) They slaughtered them, to feed the crews who were building the railroads, and to get them out of the way of the railroad.

13.) Oklahoma

14.) He was the Apache leader who was stuck on an Arizona reservation, he led raids against settlers in the army in Arizona. He escaped to Mexico.

15.) It prevented them from getting into debt. It offered farmers education, fellowship, and support.

16.) Free silver

17.) It created large cities including Denver, but there were many ghost towns as well, and boom towns. Virginia city became very popular.

18.) They needed railroads to transport their cattle.

19.) They got into debt and lost their lands, the cost of crops went down, while the prices to buy went state high.

20.) Actions:

-Put them on reservations
-They forced them to adopt the white ways, like education
- The united states army attacked them

21.) Montana

22.) North-east part of Montana

23.) In the north east part of Arizona

History Quiz questions

CIVIL WAR:

How did the Civil War shape our lives today?
It would still be segregated. It would be different with the blacks. Starts the process of civil rights. The strong central government and weak state governments is finally resolved.
Name three ways the Civil War changed the South.
Destroyed their economy, freed the blacks, lost power in the government, and they even today still have resentment
What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend?
Haydesys corpus: right to have a trial before going to jail and not being able to be jailed forever
List the four border states.
Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware
Why did West Virginia form?
They didn’t want to break from the union like most Virginia
What disadvantages did the South fact?
Didn’t have as many men, didn’t have as such rail road or factories, didn’t have as much money or food, had to ship in all their supplies
Why did the Confederate States believe they had a right to leave the Union?
Thought they had the right to leave if the government was doing something that was destructive to their safety and happiness.
What were the three main strategies of the Union?
Blockade the coast, take control of the Mississippi and take the South Capital.
What was the average age of soldiers who fought in the Civil War?
25
What was the outcome of Bull Run?
It wasn’t going to be a short war but a long bloody battle
Discuss the Battle of Shiloh.
First huge battle with a lot of casualties. Grant Vs Johnston. 25,000 casualties over 3 days
What were Lincoln’s reasons for the Emancipation Proclamation?
Political strategy, it would passify some of his enemies in the north. Allowed the slaves to run away from the south.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Said blacks were equal, freed them
How was the Civil War a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight?
The rich men could get out of fighting while the poor had to. Taking away the Slaves effected the rich people the most.
Discuss the draft laws in the north.
All men were drafted to fight and when called had to go but if you had 200 dollars you could pay to get out of it
Discuss the importance of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
Big wins for the Union, gave them hope and revival. Gettysburg Lee lost a lot of his army so they could never invade the south.
How did Sherman use “Total War” against the South?
He marched right down the middle and burned and destroyed everything in his path
Who were the Presidents of the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War?
Union: Abe Lincoln
Confederates: Jefferson Davis

What, exactly, did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It didn’t really free any slaves but just gave hope

Chapter 16

1. The blockade was an offensive move used by the union.
2. The confederate army had many blockade runners, along with the first ironclad warship
3. There were four border states that didn’t know whether or not to side with the Union or the confederates.
4. Two of Lincolns moves that helped the Union win was to draft soldiers and also on those within union borders but were against the Union, jail them without enforcing habeas corpus
5. 1861- 1865
6. They were fighting a defensive war, had better leaders at least at first, and they had more will to fight
7. The United States president was Abraham Lincoln and the Confederates was Jefferson Davis
8. She gathered medical supplies and supplied them to the Union along with medical help at the front line
9. To prevent them from getting supplies
10. It was the Unions first big win that gave them confidence for future battles
11. That any enslaved person in a state of rebellion was now free
12. On the North side they fought both in the Navy and in the Army and for the South they worked the land so the white men could fight and this supplied the South
13. It destroyed it, since most the war was fought in the South, a lot of stuff was destroyed and the south laid in ruins. Farmland was destroyed, and railroad were torn up. There was an inflamtion of 9000 percent.
14. Lee and his men could go home even with their horse so long as they left their arms
15. They disagreed with it so they formed West Virginia and seceded from Virginia and joined the Union
16. To the North, it divided the Confederate and prevented them from shipping or receive supplies. The South used to the transport supplies
17. It was really a fight for their freedom so they had passion for the war and there were so many of them that if you used them you had more people and a better chance at winning
18. We was a very strategic man and planned attacks well, he was also good to his men and they respected him and he got things done
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Event	Year	Significance
Attack on Fort Sumter	1861	Confederates first attack, start of the civil war
Monitor V. Merrimack	1862	It marked a new age in naval warfare (first battle between two metal- covered ships
Emancipation Proclamation issued	1863	Showed that we were also fighting for slave freedom
Lincoln is reelected	1864	It meant the Union would keep pushing to get the Confederates to rejoin the union and not just make peace with the south
Appomattox Court House	1865	Where Lee surrendered at, ending the War

1. Cemetery Ridge
2. Ewell
3. Ewell, Lee, Hill, Longstreet, and Pickett

Don't know much about history part 2

Reading Questions for "Don't Know About History"

1) Why does the author suggest that John Brown had a sense of humor?

- He makes a joke, when President Buchanan put a price of $250 on Browns head, Brown responded with a bounty of two dollars and fifty cents on Buchanan’s

2) What was John Brown's plan?

His plan was to march south, arm the slaves who would flock his crusade and establish a black republic in the Appalachians to wage war against the slaveholding South

3) Why did John Brown become a symbol? To the North he became a symbol of a martyr in a just cause, He was a forceful and eloquent spokesman for the cause of abolition. South, he represented yankee interference in the souths way of life taken to its extreme.

4) When and why did South Carolina succeed from the Union?

1860, many reasons, what brown did. The south felt it was being over powered by the north, and the south way of life was being threatened.

5) List some of the advantages of the North at the beginning of the war. List some of the advantages of the South at the beginning of the war.

North: More people, more money, more industrialized, it vastly outproduced the south, they had a better way of increasing their wartime supplies.

South: was in a defensive war, they had beeter commanders, were better riders, better with weapons, and showed a greater martial spirit.

6) List some of the (5) famous battles of the Civil War with a brief description of each.

First battle of the bull run: First major battle of the war. 30000 Union soldiers and about the same number of Confederate soldiers. Fought in Manassas Virginia. Both green armies. Confederates beat the Union, chasing them back to DC.

Battle of Ball’s Bluff: takes place in Virginia. Another rout of Union Forces with some 1,900 Union troops killed.

Battle of Shiloh: Confederate forces under Albert Johnston attack Grant’s army. Union Forces are nearly defeated, but reinforcements arrive and drive off the Confederate army. 13,000 Union troops and 11,000 Confederate troops are lost in 2 days.

The seven Days’ battle: Lee attacks McClellan and eventually drives him away from Richmond ending the Peninsular Campaign.

Battle of Gettysburg: Confederate troops in search of shoes run into a group of Union troops. A three day battle where many are killed (Confederates lost 28,000). Final turning point in the war, Union army turns back repeated Confederate assaults.

7) How do you view Lincoln's suspension of "the writ of habeas corpus"?

I honestly think it was a good move at the time. It was a move to help the Union within Union boundries. He did what he had to do, if you were supporting the South but living in the North you could only expect to be watched more closely.

8) What if Lee's plan had not been found at the battle of Antiem?

I really think the south would have won. If Lee hadn’t been found out he the south would have gotten the support of the foreign nations.

9) What was the reconstruction?

It was the process of joining the nation back together. Letting the Southern States readmit to the Union.

10) Why did the Klu Klux Klan form?

It was a post civil war group of white southerners formed to as a backlash to reconstruction. They wanted to prevent blacks in politics.

11) Discuss Andrew Johnson's impeachment.

He was impeached for trying to dismiss an official who had been appointed with Senate consent without getting senate approval and this man Johnson tried to dismiss was an ally of the Radical Republicans.