Civil War Quiz 1

Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army and lost a major battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

One of General Lee's most important generals who would stand like a "Stonewall" during battles and was accidentally killed by his own men.

• Jefferson Davis
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Gone with the Wind
• Across the Lines
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg

The Union General that forced General Lee to surrender at Appomattox.

• Fort Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the Federal Government should not interfere.

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

The 1^st and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Jefferson Davis

The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War

• Sherman's March to Sea
• Gettysburg
• Atlanta Campaign
• Fort Sumter

General Sherman led his troops through Georgia toward Savannah and destroyed  things that Southerners needed for war.

• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Fort Sumter
• Gettysburg
• John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry