HY 103 CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Shiloh - ✔✔-fought by Grant in an attempt to capture the railroad of the South
-one of bloodiest battles of war
-confederacy's strong resistance promised would not be a short, easy war for union
✔✔United States Colored Troops - ✔✔-sections of union army for blacks to enlist after
emancipation proclamation
-union stops just using blacks as camp hands and use as field soldiers
-runaway slaves literally fighting for life (cannot surrender)
-54th Massachusetts free northern black men
✔✔Salmon P. Chase - ✔✔-U.S. secretary of the Treasury under lincoln
-legal tender act
-internal revenue act
✔✔Legal Tender Act - ✔✔-created a national currency
-"greenbacks"
-backed by the credit of the United States
✔✔Internal Revenue Act - ✔✔-created taxes for union to fund civil war
-taxed vices (playing cards, liquor, tobacco, billiards tables), rich (carriages and yachts),
stamp tax
-first ever income tax (on extremely wealthy)
✔✔USS Monitor - ✔✔-first ironclad warship ever by US Navy
-very small, only two guns
-specifically made for defense
✔✔Gail Borden - ✔✔-invented condensed milk
-US (north) bought entire factories output for duration of the war
✔✔Julia Ward Howe - ✔✔-Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic
, -abolitionist
✔✔The Battle Hymn of the Republic - ✔✔-linking the judgment of the wicked in end
times with the American Civil War
-make a sacrifice to end slavery like Jesus made a sacrifice to save humanity
✔✔Elizabeth Blackwell - ✔✔-First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
-founded the US Sanitary Commission
✔✔United States Sanitary Commission - ✔✔-an organization that provided medical
assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals
-pays nurses to clean up war hospitals
✔✔Vicksburg - ✔✔-Grant rejects reinforcements
-orders assault and loses (his biggest regret)
-lays siege; cuts off food supply to confederacy
✔✔The "March to the Sea" - ✔✔-Sherman's march from atlanta GA to savannah
-wrecks rails in atlanta to cut off food supplies
-wants southern women to feel effects of war
-offers savannah surrender (they take it)
-continues to south carolina---> not so forgiving
-pries lee off of richmond
✔✔Proclamation on Amnesty and Reconstruction - ✔✔-issued by Lincoln: offered full
pardon to Southerners who would take oath of allegiance to the Union and acknowledge
emancipation
-only need 10% to rewrite state constitution
-argued Lincoln too lenient
-effort to chip away at confederacy
✔✔Wade-Davis Bill - ✔✔-Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for
reconstruction
-required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-
confederates to vote for a new state constitution
-Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it
✔✔Special Field Order 15 - ✔✔-Forty acres and a mule
-ordered by Sherman because tired of freed slaves following his army and using up
provisions
-became extremely problematic because property of rebels until stays seized until
owners death, then returns to heir
✔✔Andrew Johnson - ✔✔-started with nothing
-southerner
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Shiloh - ✔✔-fought by Grant in an attempt to capture the railroad of the South
-one of bloodiest battles of war
-confederacy's strong resistance promised would not be a short, easy war for union
✔✔United States Colored Troops - ✔✔-sections of union army for blacks to enlist after
emancipation proclamation
-union stops just using blacks as camp hands and use as field soldiers
-runaway slaves literally fighting for life (cannot surrender)
-54th Massachusetts free northern black men
✔✔Salmon P. Chase - ✔✔-U.S. secretary of the Treasury under lincoln
-legal tender act
-internal revenue act
✔✔Legal Tender Act - ✔✔-created a national currency
-"greenbacks"
-backed by the credit of the United States
✔✔Internal Revenue Act - ✔✔-created taxes for union to fund civil war
-taxed vices (playing cards, liquor, tobacco, billiards tables), rich (carriages and yachts),
stamp tax
-first ever income tax (on extremely wealthy)
✔✔USS Monitor - ✔✔-first ironclad warship ever by US Navy
-very small, only two guns
-specifically made for defense
✔✔Gail Borden - ✔✔-invented condensed milk
-US (north) bought entire factories output for duration of the war
✔✔Julia Ward Howe - ✔✔-Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic
, -abolitionist
✔✔The Battle Hymn of the Republic - ✔✔-linking the judgment of the wicked in end
times with the American Civil War
-make a sacrifice to end slavery like Jesus made a sacrifice to save humanity
✔✔Elizabeth Blackwell - ✔✔-First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
-founded the US Sanitary Commission
✔✔United States Sanitary Commission - ✔✔-an organization that provided medical
assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals
-pays nurses to clean up war hospitals
✔✔Vicksburg - ✔✔-Grant rejects reinforcements
-orders assault and loses (his biggest regret)
-lays siege; cuts off food supply to confederacy
✔✔The "March to the Sea" - ✔✔-Sherman's march from atlanta GA to savannah
-wrecks rails in atlanta to cut off food supplies
-wants southern women to feel effects of war
-offers savannah surrender (they take it)
-continues to south carolina---> not so forgiving
-pries lee off of richmond
✔✔Proclamation on Amnesty and Reconstruction - ✔✔-issued by Lincoln: offered full
pardon to Southerners who would take oath of allegiance to the Union and acknowledge
emancipation
-only need 10% to rewrite state constitution
-argued Lincoln too lenient
-effort to chip away at confederacy
✔✔Wade-Davis Bill - ✔✔-Proposed far more demanding and stringent terms for
reconstruction
-required 50% of the voters of a state to take the loyalty oath and permitted only non-
confederates to vote for a new state constitution
-Lincoln refused to sign the bill, pocket vetoing it
✔✔Special Field Order 15 - ✔✔-Forty acres and a mule
-ordered by Sherman because tired of freed slaves following his army and using up
provisions
-became extremely problematic because property of rebels until stays seized until
owners death, then returns to heir
✔✔Andrew Johnson - ✔✔-started with nothing
-southerner
