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

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

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

• to abolish 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

The Union's Anaconda Plan called for all of the following except

• blockade Southern ports to prevent imports/exports
• dividing the Confederacy into two parts by controlling the Mississippi River
• capturing Confederate capitol at Richmond Virginia
• assassinating Jefferson Davis

No food, amputations on the battlefield, unsanitary hospitals were some things

• Union soldiers had to endure
• Confederate soldiers had to endure
• British soldiers had to endure
• Both Union and Confederate soldiers had to endure