FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 14

PDF Download

FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH: CHAPTER 14

EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -20 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Sherman's March to the Sea

Answer:

during the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along there way.

Question 2: Scorched Earth Policy

Answer:

Grant and Sheridans tactic of burning crops and killing livestock during wartime so that the enemy cannot live off the land

Question 3: Jefferson Davis

Answer:

Mississippian, former U.S senator/secretary of war . An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865

Question 4: Radical Republicans

Answer:

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. consisted of salmon chase, charles sumner, and thaddeus stevens.

Question 5: Abraham Lincoln

Answer:

16th President saved the Union during the Civil War, emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.

Question 6: greenbacks

Answer:

Used in the Legal Tender Act of 1862. was the Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural)

Question 7: Habeas Corpus

Answer:

An order to produce an arrested person before a judge.

Question 8: King Cotton

Answer:

Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry, and that North needed South's cotton. Coined by James Hammond

Question 9: Crittenden Compromise

Answer:

attempt to prevent Civil War by Senator Crittenden , offered Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slaves, compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves

Question 10: Emancipation Proclamation

Answer:

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

Question 11: William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer:

2nd most important Union General who introduced total war in "the march to the sea." He destroyed crops, towns, and farms everywhere he went.

Question 12: George McClellan

Answer:

general for north command of Army of the Potomac 1861; "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice.Won against the war of Antietam, but let Lee escape.

Question 13: Total war

Answer:

A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields.

Question 14: Hard War/Total War

Answer:

The philosophy and tactics used by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, by which he treated civilians as combatants.

Question 15: War Democrats

Answer:

Sub-division of democratic party. Consist of patriotically supported the Lincoln administration. These democrats did not pose as big a threat to the Union as the Peace Democrats or copperheads. had vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended

Question 16: Ulysses S. Grant

Answer:

an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Question 17: draft (conscription)

Answer:

The Confederacy impose the first legally binding.

• New laws required existing solders to serve for the duration of the war and mandated three years of

military service from all men between the ages of 18 and 35

Question 18: Robert

• Lee

Answer:

Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force. was a colonel, career officer who resigned from the US army and became the confederates general

Question 19: Peace Democrats

Answer:

Sub-division of the fractured democratic party. Tens of thousands who did not support the Lincoln Administration. The hippies of the civil war. called for "the cessation of hostilities" and a constitutional convention to negotiate peace.

Question 20: "contrabands" (p. 463)

Answer:

Slaves who fled plantations and sought protection behind Union lines during the Civil War.