Advantages /
Disadvantages
War Time
Strategies
Battles of the
Civil War
War Time Politics
Chapter 1
Potpourri
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This participant in the Civil War had the
advantage of population
What is the Union?
This participant in the Civil War had the
advantage of having the best military
Generals
What is the
Confederacy
This manufacturing advantage
allowed the North to engage in a War
of Attrition against the South
What is
industrialization
This new technological
advantage named the
Merrimack allowed the
Confederates to break the
blockade around Hampton
Roads VA
What is an Ironclad
The North’s ability to do
this would inevitably lead
to their victory over the
South
Replace men and
equipment at a faster rate
than the Confederacy
In hopes of ending the war quickly
Lincoln order General McClellan to
take this city in Virgina
What is Richmond?
The Confederacy believed if they
withheld cotton exports they could force
these two European nations into the
War on their side
What is Britain and France
The Union’s plan developed by
Winfield Scott called for a blockade of
southern ports as well taking control of
the Mississippi river.
What is the
Anaconda Plan?
By 1863 and after the
Confederate victories at
Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville. The Southern
strategy changed to this.
What is hold out
until the 1864
election
In 1863 Robert E Lee led the
Confederate Northern Virginia Army
into Southern PA looking to find supplies
as well hoping to do this.
What is provoke a confrontation and
decisively defeat the Union on Northern
soil - Hoping to turn the tide of
Northern public opinion against Lincoln
This battle marked the beginning
the American Civil War
What is the Battle of Ft. Sumter
This was the first major land battle
of the Civil War
What is the First
Battle of Bull Run
or 1st Manassas
The Union gained access to
the Cumberland River
after winning these two
battles
What is Ft. Henry and Ft. Donelson
After the South won these two
battles some northern leaders began
to talk about making peace with the
South
What is Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville
The results of this battle gave the Union
control of the Mississippi and thus cut
the South in two.
What is Vicksburg
Both the North and South created this
in an effort to increase the numbers in
their armies
What is the Draft
The North enacted the first
one of these in American
history in an effort to raise
money for the war.
What is an income
Tax
Without southern democrats in
congress the republican controlled
congress was able to do this
Pass a law calling for
the building of the
Transcontinental
Railroad
To guarantee that Kentucky, as a
border state, would stay in the Union
and not succeed Lincoln imposed this
on Kentucky.
What is Martial Law
In an effort to suppress anyone
who opposed the war among the
Northern population President
Lincoln suspended this
What is the writ of
habeas corpus
Archeologists think the first
Americans may have
traveled over a land bridge
between Alaska and….
What is Asia?
After the French and Indian War
Britain
Abandoned their policy of
Salutary Neglect because of this.
What is they wanted the
Colonies to help pay for the
War?
This man, the Father of the
Constitution, believed that,
through proper
government people could
take control of themselves
Who is James Madison
This 1803 landmark
supreme court case gave
the Supreme Court the
ability to rule on the
constitutionality of
legislation thus creating the
principle of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v.
Madison
This referred to the idea
that Americans would
inevitably move west and
possess the entire
continental United States
What is Manifest Destiny