The American Civil War ESL

American Civil War

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the United States.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

• Access to a trial. Cannot be arrested without solid proof of a crime and mandatory jailtime.

• Suspension of all civil rights. Have to have a reason to arrest someone.

• The right to be charged with a crime or released. Access to a trial.

Multiple Choice

What law exempted slave owners who owned many slaves from getting drafted during the Civil War?

• 21 Slave Law

• A Handful of slaves Law

• 20 Slave Law

• Emancipation Proclamation

Multiple Choice

This attack through the South was a demonstration of the effectiveness of Total War. Unfortunately, he gained a lot of enemies for this approach including most of the South even today.

• Grant's March to the Sea

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Sherman's March to the Ocean

• Sherman's March to the East

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of 40 Acres and a Mule?

• Force slaves to continue working at the plantations that they had worked beforehand

• Allow slaves to continue working for their former masters for a wage

• Force slaves to get a wage paying job where they own a share of the plantation

• Grant slaves land to restart their lives essentially and make a living for themselves

Open Ended

Organize these events by number:

1. Fort Sumter

2. Battle of Gettysburg

3. Appomattox Court House

4. Battle of Bull Run

5. Election of 1864

Open Ended

What was each side fighting for at the beginning of the Civil War? Did that change over time? How so?