Chapter 18 study questions

7.) It allowed them to transport goods all over the country, and they could bring food and supplies to the workers.

8.) It began in Victoria, Texas.

9.) Fertile land, for farming, and the buffalos.

10.) African American settlers, who migrated from southern states into Kansas in the late 1870’s.

11.) There was a lack of moisture, flash floods would wipe out all their crop, and when they planted it down deep the plants would not produce large crop yields.

12.) They slaughtered them, to feed the crews who were building the railroads, and to get them out of the way of the railroad.

13.) Oklahoma

14.) He was the Apache leader who was stuck on an Arizona reservation, he led raids against settlers in the army in Arizona. He escaped to Mexico.

15.) It prevented them from getting into debt. It offered farmers education, fellowship, and support.

16.) Free silver

17.) It created large cities including Denver, but there were many ghost towns as well, and boom towns. Virginia city became very popular.

18.) They needed railroads to transport their cattle.

19.) They got into debt and lost their lands, the cost of crops went down, while the prices to buy went state high.

20.) Actions:

-Put them on reservations
-They forced them to adopt the white ways, like education
- The united states army attacked them

21.) Montana

22.) North-east part of Montana

23.) In the north east part of Arizona

Civil War Journey Questions

1) A) One of the North’s strategies was to take the offensive and blockade the southern ports. B) The Confederate’s Ironclad warships were called blockade runners. C) The war was broke up into three parts: the union, or north; the south, or confederates; and the boarder states, who weren’t completely sure which side to support. D) Lincoln suspended the right of Habeas Corpus which was sort of like the draft where it was a law that said men between 18 and 35 had to serve in the army for three years.

2) 2) 1861-1865

3) 3) They fought on familiar territory; Strong support its white population gave to the war; and defending their land, homes, and way of life.

4) 4) Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States, and Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy.

5) 5) She helped out with the medical part of the war. She supplied the doctors with bandages and medical supplies; she kept the doctors going and gave aid to many. She also started the American Red Cross and served as its president for 20 years.

6) 6) So it would stop their selling of cotton to Britain and that way they didn’t get money which would help support the war. Also because it stopped the import of infantry and food to the south from Britain.

7) 7) The Union won.

8) 8) It was to free all enslaved African Americans in the South.

9) 9) In the south African Americans labored on plantations and in vital iron, salt, and lead mines as well as nurses in military hospitals and cooks in the army. In the north a lot of African Americans joined the Navy because they weren’t allowed to join the army. However, in 1862 congress passed a law that allowed African Americans to join the Union army, and they did.

10) 10) It ended slavery in the south, and the slaves were the ones who picked cotton, which was their main economy.

11) 11) That the Confederate soldiers had to lay down their arms, and were free to go home on their horses. Grant also ordered three days worth of food to be sent to Lee and his troops.

12) 12) By organizing 48 Virginia counties which then got them considered as a separate state called West Virginia.

13) 13) It was vital to the South because it was one of its main shipping lines. The north thought they needed to take it over so that way the south couldn’t use it anymore to ship goods and also to split the Confederacy.

14) 14) They saw them as more people to fight in the war. Also because they didn’t really have a life to the Americans, so it wasn’t a huge loss if they died, especially in the north.

15) 15) I think he was affective because he knew when and where to attack; ha had good timing. He also took risks which worked for him a lot of the times, and he had a group of men who were extremely motivated to fight.

16)

Event	Year	Significance
Attack on Fort Sumter	April 12, 1861	The Union surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederates. No one died.
Monitor v. Merrimack	March 9, 1862	It was a naval war between two ironclad ships. They weren’t able to sink one, but the Merrimack was kept in the harbor, so the North sort of won.
Emancipation Proclamation issued	January 1, 1863	It was a document that would free all enslaved African Americans from the south.
Lincoln is reelected	(October) 1864	He was the right guy to be in office when the war ended.
Appomattox Court House	April 9, 1865	Lee and his troops surrender to Grant, officially ending the war.

17) 17) Cemetery Ridge

18) 18) Ewell

19) 19) Ewell, Lee, Hill, Longstreet, and Pickett.