8th Grade Fourth Quarter Review

Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of

• Confederate headquarters.
• Robert E. Lee's surrender.
• a bloody battle.
• Union headquarters.

Before they could join the Union, Southern states had to ratify the

• Sixteenth Amendment.
• Fourteenth Amendment.
• Thirteenth Amendment.
• Fifteenth Amendment.

Enforcement of the Fugitive Act led to

• an end to the struggle.
• more anger in the North.
• recognition of Southerners' rights.
• compromise.

Famine caused people to immigrate to the United States from which country ?

• Spain
• Ireland
• Mexico
• Germany

In the Civil War, for the first time, thousands of women served as

• Generals
• Commanders
• Spies
• Nurses

Pickett's Charge took place during the Battle of

• Chancellorsville
• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Fredericksburg

Southerners justified secession with the theory of

• federal rights.
• States' Rights
• Slave's rights
• The Union's errors

The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because

• it would create sectionalism.
• it would upset the balance.
• the Senate was proslavery.
• the Senate was antislavery.

The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of

• Shiloh
• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Chancellorsville

The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to

• end slavery.
•  be recognized as independent.
• punish the South.
• eunite the country.