History of the Americas Questions

The nineteenth-century U.S. Army was organized into ___________ of about 1,000 soldiers. The Union forces contained a large number of __________ troops, roughly 25 percent. Many units in the Union army were comprised of the same __________. In many cases, these units were drawn from the same local community, with soldiers fighting side by side with neighbors and relatives. The Confederacy's armed forces, conversely, overwhelming consisted of _________ who were __________ into service

The unprecedented scope and scale of the Civil War reached across the _______. Few families were unaffected by the war, as one in every _________ men served. While twice as many American soldiers were killed in the Civil War as were killed in the _________ War, __________, rather than battle, was the greatest threat to soldiers.

The fighting in the Civil War was deeply personal and battles took place in extremely close quarters

The early sentiment in the North that __________ could "go down South for three months and clean up the whole business" was ________ at the _________ —the first large-scale military engagement between Union and Confederate armies. Hundreds of civilians rode to the site of the battle to watch the spectacle.Both sides fought hard and at first the Union thought it had _________ the entire war with this single victory, but when Confederate troops arrived, ____________ directed his forces to charge the Union lines, yelling "like furies," and caused a _________ in the Union troops who ___________. The ___________ victory gave the early advantage in the war to the ___________, as a Union victory now became far from __________ and crushed the belief that this would be a __________ war.

After victories in the South at Vicksburg, the North at Gettysburg, and the West at _________ began to change the momentum of the war, Union commander __________ dramatically changed the strategy of the Union military. He arranged for Union armies in Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana - the three _________ in the Union—to launch an __________ offensive. The Federals would compel the rebel army to __________ until exhaustion and execute a strategy of _________.Grant assigned ___________ to push through the South where, after defeating Confederate forces in Georgia, Sherman burned major sections of __________ and moved on to strike terror in a path of destruction in ___________. At the same time, Grant relentlessly pursued Robert E. Lee. After Grant had surrounded Lee and his _________ troops, Lee agreed to meet at the ____________, where Lee surrendered and the Civil War came to an end.

After the fall of Fort Sumter and the outbreak of the Civil War, civilian supporters of the Union and the Confederacy alike wanted their respective forces to advance slowly and cautiously to avoid an early defeat and to spare as many American lives as possible.

Abraham Lincoln worked with General George B. McClellan—"Little Napoleon"—who was a military strategist, to plan the successful capture of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

Why did a New York newspaper report that Lincoln's bid in the 1864 election was now "in the hands of General Grant, and the failure of the General will be the overthrow of the president"?

The __________ case began with a suit filed in the Missouri courts by a Virginia __________ named Dred Scott who claimed that residence in Illinois made him ________ because slavery was _________ there. A ________ decided in Scott's favor, but the decision was _________ by the state Supreme Court.The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the result was 7-2 _________ Scott, claiming he did not have legal standing because no former slave could be an American ______

Identify the first state to secede from the Union in 1860.

So many men were away fighting the war in the South that the home front became largely the domain of women, children, and slaves.

President Lincoln was equally dedicated to ending both the abomination of slavery and the Confederate secessionist rebellion.

According to Senator John Sherman, the war encouraged prominent capitalists to make "millions as confidently as formerly of thousands" in industries like steel and iron.

The Confederate soldiers at Vicksburg were determined to face horror and hardship rather than consider surrender to the Union.

Most southerners fought for the Union during the Civil War

Identify the government that was formed by the seven states that seceded from the Union after the election of Lincoln.

In the midst of the _________ of southern states, Congress was desperate to reach an agreement in order to avoid a __________. A series of resolutions permitting slavery in new _________ south of the Missouri Compromise line were proposed, but soon after __________ by President-elect Abraham Lincoln.The Senate defeated the _________, but failed at peace talks several weeks later. This was the extent of _________ efforts to save the Union.

The __________ Gold Rush was the greatest ___________ in American history and one of the most _________ events in the first half of the nineteenth century. The infusion of _________ into the U.S. economy contributed to the financial support of the _________ during the Civil War.The gold rush also shifted the nation's attention to the West and galvanized __________, such as railroads and telegraph lines, in the Pacific.

Human casualties and injuries were so great during the Civil War that some southern states spent 20 percent or more of their annual budget on health care for veterans.

readmission to the Union for former Rebel states when at least 10 percent of those who voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Union