Chapter 15 Review Sheet – Roark
Why did Lincoln want to hold Fort Sumter?
Why was West Virginia created?
What did one Georgia woman say about what Southerners wanted from the North?
What military strategy did the Confederacy devise to exploit its advantages?
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Who was Josiah Gorgas and what did he accomplish?
How high did inflation get in the Confederacy?
What happened at Bull Run in 1861?
What did George B. McClellan lack?
What two very effective men did Robert E. Lee have to help him fight the Union armies?
What happened to the Army of Northern Virginia after the battle of Antietam?
What mistake did Burnside make at Fredericksburg?
What did Grant say about the “art of war?”
How effective was the Union blockade?
What did Lincoln offer to calm Northerners’ racial fears?
What did the Times (a paper in London) write about the Emancipation Proclamation?
What did the Militia Act of July 1862 do?
How did the Union Army treat black soldiers?
What did the Southern policy of impressments do?
What did the Legal Tender Act of February 1862 create?
What did Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton do?
What caused the New York City draft riots?
Who were the “Copperheads?”