Unit 11: The Civil War

What was the reason Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address?

• To rally the Union troops in Gettysburg
• To announce the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
• To dedicate a new national cemetery
• To announce that the Union had won the Civil War

What document gave freedom to the slaves (in name only) and allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union Army and Navy?

• The 10% Plan

• The Wade-Davis Bill

• The 3/5th Law

• The Emancipation Proclamation

More factories, larger population, and more railroads 

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• Reasons for  Southern victory
• Cause of the battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending homes, don't have to go on the attack

• Union advantages
• reasons North won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons Minecraft is fun

The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Bull Run
• Manassas

All of the following are included in the Confederacy's military plan for the war EXCEPT:

• Invade the North before they can invade the South

• Capture Washington, D.C.

• Get support from the British and French

• Play defense, only invade North if opportunity arises

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?

• to expand slavery

• to end British control of the Western territories

• to make the Southern economy not dependent on cotton

• to preserve the Union

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation changed the focus of the war, declaring that

• all slaves in the Confederacy are free
• all slaves in the US freed
• slaves in the Union free
• all slaves in the West free

Which Civil War battle lasted three days in Pennsylvania, ended in a cemetery, resulted in Union victory, and was the turning point of the war? 

• Bull Run 
• Gettysburg 
• Antietam   
• Vicksburg 

Lee invades Maryland. At that point in the war, bloodiest day in U.S. history. McClellan is slow to attack despite finding Lee's battle plans. Confederates eventually withdraw, McClellan doesn't follow. Union claims victory. Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation.

• Gettysburg
• Shiloh
• Antietam
• Fort Sumter