The Civil War

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

• The 10% Plan
• The Wade-Davis Bill
• The 3/5th Law
• The Emancipation Proclamation

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.
• Gain recognition from other nations
  
• Play defense, only invade North if opportunity arises

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

True/False:  Habeas corpus was the legal process that Lincoln suspended to deal with war opponents in the Union by making it possible to imprison someone without a trial

• True
• False

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

• John Brown
• John Wilkes Booth
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• John Hinckley Jr.