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THIS was one of the most unpopular acts of
the Union government during the Civil War
that was necessary for obtaining the adequate
manpower for the huge armies that would be
needed to crush the South
What is imposing CONSCRIPTION
100
This aspect of Union conscription was
especially hated by working class
Northerners and resulted in draft riots in
New York City in which hundreds were
killed
1863
What is the provision that allowed a
drafted individual to avoid service by
hiring a substitute or paying $300
1863
200
The Confederacy , with its much smaller
manpower pool had instituted conscription
in 1862. THIS provision of the Southern
conscription act led poorer southern whites
to complain that it was a “rich man’s war
and a poor man’s fight”
What is the provision of the
Southern conscription act
allowing one man to stay home
as overseer for every twenty
slaves
most of the Southern population was made up of NON-
Slaveholding whites
1862
300
The low morale of the South in the
latter part of the war is indicated by
THIS
What is draft-dodging and
desertion in epidemic proportions
400
Southern discontent over the scarcity of
food and other consumer good in the
South as well as high prices led to
further desertion of soldiers who left
the ranks to car for their starving
families and in THIS in Richmond
What was the “bread riot” in
Richmond ?
500
THE nations first of THIS was used
along with high tariffs to finance the
Northern side of the war
What is the nation’s first income tax
100
The treasury department under the
Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P.
Chase issued THESE as un-backed
fiat (vs. specie) currency which at
least fared better than (in terms of
inflation) than the Southern paper
money because of the greater
confidence in Northern victory
What were Greenbacks
200
To facilitate the financing of the
war through credit expansion ,
Congress passed THIS
What is the National Banking
Act was passed in 1863 ?
In 1863, Congress passed the National Bank Act in an attempt to retire
the greenbacks that it had issued to finance the North's effort in the
American Civil War. This opened up an option for chartering banks
nationally. As an additional incentive for banks to submit to Federal
supervision, Congress began taxing any issue of bills of credit a standard
rate of 10%, which encouraged a large majority of state banks to become
national ones.
The National Bank Act of 1863 created a system of banks throughout the
United States that were chartered by the federal government.
300
The confederate government , with its
scant financial resources, and weak
national government responded to the
inflation it created by doing THIS
What is imposing taxes in kind and
impressment , the seizing of produce ,
livestock, by Confederate agents in return
for payment according to an artificially set
schedule .
Since payment was in worthless inflated currency this
amounted to confiscation which led to lack of
cooperation with Confederate impressment agents by
southern citizens
400
To quell the threat of secession in
Maryland , Lincoln had done THIS
stretching presidential powers to
the limit or perhaps beyond the
limit of the Constitution
What is suspended the writ of
Habeas corpus and imprisoned
numerous suspected
secessionists without charges or
trial ,ignoring the insistence of
southern Chief Justice Roger B.
Taney
500
Southern Chief Justice Roger B.
Taney in THIS Supreme Court
decision (1861) ruled that Lincoln’s
suspension of habeus corpus in
Maryland was unconstitutional;
Lincoln ignored his ruling
WHAT is ex Parte
Merryman (1861) ?
100
This was the name given to the
northerners such as Clement
Vallandigham of Ohio who opposed the
war denounced Lincoln as a tyrant and
would be dictator bur remained a
minority . Though occasionally subject
to arrest and/or deportation for their
activities they were generally allowed
freedom to voice this dissent
WHO were the copperheads
– the group of anti-Lincoln
northerners ?
Jefferson Davis also encountered obstruction from various groups that
made the Confederate government less effective than it might have been
200
By mid 1862 Lincoln under pressure from
radical element of his own party and
hoping to cerate a favorable impression on
foreign public opinion , determined to
issue THIS as soon as the North should win some sort of
victory (as suggested by Seward) so it did not appear to be an act of
panic and desperation in view of the string of defeat the North had
recently suffered on the battlefield s of Virginia
WHAT is
the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
300
The Emancipation Proclamation did
NOT in reality free any slaves BUT it
declared this and symbolically
changed the purpose of the war to
one of abolishing slavery
What is declared that all
slaves in areas still in
rebellion (i.e. not under
Union control) as of
January 1, 1863 would
be free
400
The battle that provided a semi-Union
victory was THIS after which the
Emancipation Proclamation was issued
What is the Battle of Antietam
500
1863
Although the Radical Republicans ,
pre-war abolitionists for the most
part , supported the Emancipation
Proclamation lack of enthusiastic
support for it from Northern public
opinion was indicated by THIS
outcome in 1862
What is the Republicans suffered major
losses in the November 1862
congressional elections
100
THESE two battles marked the only
two times that the Confederacy tried to
advance into Union territory
What is
Antietam (near Sharpsburg,Maryland)
and
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania)
Both of these battle resulted in Union victories in the sense that
the advances failed
200
The battle of Antietam resulted in
Lincoln taking these TWO actions
What is
Lincoln
1. issued the Emancipation
Proclamation
2. removed McClellan from
command for failing to pursue
Lee’s retreating Confederate army
which if destroyed would have
meant the end of the war
300
This is the general Lincoln
replaced McClellan with
Who is General Burnside
who promptly demonstrated his unfitness for command by
blundering into a lopsided defeat in the battle of
Fredericksburg
400
This is the general Lincoln
replaced Burnside with
Who is General Joe Hooker
who was outgeneraled in the Battle of
Chancellorsville – another Union defeat
500
THIS important and valuable
Confederate general was killed in
the Battle of Chancellorsville
Who is Stonewall Jackson
100
This is the union general was
in command of the union army
of the Potomoc during the
Battle of Gettysburg
Who is General George
Meade ?
200
THIS famous 3-day battle was the bloodiest
of the Civil War , that defeated but failed to
pursue and destroy Lee’s retreating
confederate army
What is the Battle of
Gettysburg
This battle did destroy the Confederate armies ability to
mount another invasion into the North
1863
300
General Grant led a brilliant
campaign to take this confederate
fort on the Mississippi River for a
union victory on July 4, 1963
1863
What is
Vicksburg
Port Hudson surrendered 5 days after the surrender of
Vicksburg giving the Union complete control of the
Mississippi River
400
After Union forces under General
Rosecrans suffered an embarrassing defeat
at the Battle of Chickamagua in
northwestern Georgia , Lincoln named
THIS general as the overall commander of
Union forces in the WEST
Who is General Grant
500
Union victory under the command
of General Grant in the battle of
Chattanooga put union forces in a
a position to drive into THIS
southern state
What is Georgia
100
Early in 1864 Lincoln made THIS
general commander of all Union
armies
Who is General Grant
200
In a series of bloody battles (the
Wilderness, Spotsylvania and
Cold Harbor) Grant (in spite of
huge casualties) drove to Lee to
the outskirts of this city
1864
What is Richmond
?
The siege of Richmond and Petersburg began
resulting in a stalemate that lasted some nine
months
300
Once Atlanta fell into Union hands after a
lengthy siege, Sherman’s advance through
Georgia became known as this leaving
behind a 60 mile wide swath of destruction
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea
from Atlanta to Savannah
the brutality of the march was designed to impress
on Southerners that continuation of the war could
only mean ruin for all of them and was a practice in
TOTAL WAR
400
By 1864 the South’s best hope was
that Northern war weariness would
bring about THIS
What is the defeat of Lincoln and
the victory of a peace candidate in
the election of 1864
500
FINAL
JEOPARDY
Election of
1864
Lincoln ran on the ticket of THIS
party, essentially the Republican
Party with loyal or “War” Democrats
. His vice-presidential candidate
was Andrew Johnson a loyal DEMOCRAT
from Tennessee.
AND
The Democrat’s candidate was THIS
man on a platform labeling the war
a failure and calling for a
negotiated peace settlement even if
that meant Southern independence
What is
the National Unity Party (Lincoln’s
party)
AND
General George McClellan (the
opposing candidate of the
Democratic Party)