Leaders & Major Events of the War

​Leaders & Major Events of the War

Multiple Choice

What was true about many military leaders before the Civil War?

• They had never met before

• They trained together at West Point

• They lived in different countries

• They were all farmers

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Multiple Choice

What was the main purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• To start the Civil War

• To give land to soldiers

• To free enslaved people in Confederate states

• To end the war immediately

Multiple Choice

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by which U.S. President?

• George Washington

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S Grant

Multiple Choice

Why did Lincoln wait to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?

• He forgot to announce it

• He was not a president yet

• He needed money to use it as a military strategy

• He designed it to be a military strategy so he withheld it until there was a Union victory

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Multiple Choice

The Gettysburg Address was given at the dedication of a national cemetery following a major battle. In the Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln honored the soldiers who died and talked about the importance of:

• creating a new system of taxation.

• building monuments to all of the leaders.

• continuing the fight for freedom and equality.

• moving the nation's capital city.

Multiple Choice

Read the passage.

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation … dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here … and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

—Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863

Which quotation from this speech addresses the main conflict that led to the Civil War?

• “... brought forth on this continent a new nation ...”

• “... that all men are created equal …”

• “... never forget what they did here …”

• “... shall not perish from the earth.”