Civil War Review

Civil War Review

​The United States of America  (The Union)

​Reason for Fighting:   

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1)  To keep the Union together.

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2)  In the beginning, abolishing _______________

​ was not an official goal

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Multiple Choice

Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

​The Confederate States of America  (The South)

​Reason for Fighting: 

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1)  Believed they had a

right to leave the Union

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2)  Keep their traditional

way of life, including

slavery

Multiple Choice

Who was President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• John Calhoun

• Jefferson Davis

• Alexander Stephens

Multiple Choice

REVIEW TIME!!!

More Factories

• Northern Advantage

• Southern Advantage

Multiple Choice

Fewer Railroads

• Northern Disadvantage

• Southern Disadvantage

Multiple Choice

Smaller Population

• Northern Disadvantage

• Southern Disadvantage

Multiple Choice

            

Knew the land....able to fight a defensive war

• Northern Advantage

• Southern Advantage

Multiple Choice

                

Better generals

• Northern Advantage

• Southern Advantage

Multiple Choice

                  

Strong Navy

• Northern Advantage

• Southern Advantage

Multiple Choice

                

Weaker government

• Northern Disadvantage

• Southern Disadvantage

Multiple Choice

          The Civil War begins at __________ in South Carolina.

• Bull Run

• Chancellorsville

• Shiloh

• Fort Sumter

​Emancipation Proclamation

​Originally the war was fought to save the Union not end SLAVERY

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• “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I  could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1862

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On January 1, 1863

Lincoln issues the

Emancipation

Proclamation

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​The Emancipation Proclamation ​freed slaves ONLY in

the Confederacy

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Could slaves really be freed with this??  

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Why?? 

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The Emancipation Proclamation changed the PURPOSE of the war.

 

NOW, Union troops

are fighting to end

slavery.  AS WELL AS

to save the UNION.       

​HARD LIFE OF SOLDIERS

​New Technology:

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CONE-SHAPED bullets

made rifles twice as accurate.

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Improved cannons hurled

shells several miles.

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​The most common form of surgery was....?

​Sanitary conditions were poor and minor wounds

​became infected. 

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Disease/Infection 

killed more men than

guns or cannons.

Multiple Choice

What key battle fough in Pennsylvania (July 1863) was a major Union victory and is considered the turning point in the Civil War?

• Chattanooga

• Fredericksburg

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

Multiple Choice

15,000 Confederate troops marching to their death across open ground

                  during the battle of Gettysburg is now known as ...?

• Meade’s      Massacre      

• Stonewall’s Scuffle

• Pickett’s Charge

• Tanchak's Tragedy

Multiple Choice

What key battle in July 1863 saw the Union win control of the Missississppi River and split the Confederacy into 2 parts?

• Vicksburg

• Fredericksburg

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

GGeneral Ulysses S. Grant (Union)

Grant's plan for ending

the war:  TOTAL WAR

Destroy the South’s ability

to FIGHT. Destroy food,

equipment, and anything

else they found that might

be USEFUL tothe enemy.

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Multiple Choice

General William Tecumseh Sherman cut through a large portion of the South (using total war) in what is known as

• “Rampage to the Atlantic”

• “March to the Sea”

• “Terror through Dixie”

• “Raid on the Heartland”

​Robert E. Lee becomes trapped by Union troops and SURRENDERS on April 9th, 1865 (Appomattox Court House)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a major result of the Civil War?

• The Democrats became the dominant political party

• Many states were still threatening to secede.

• The federal government became weaker.

• Slavery ended in the United States.