Civil War Test Review

Why did the Southern States leave the Union?

• To keep Slavery

• To end slavery

• To make more money

• To keep slavery and make their own county

Jefferson Davis was President of the 

• United States

• Union

• Confederate States

• North

Abraham wanted to ____________ and__________________.

• Keep the country together and end slavery

• keep the country together and continue slavery

• make his own country and end slavery

• make his own country and continue slavery

The Civil War was a war between

• Slaves and abolishionists

• East and west

• Union and Confederacy

• Great Britain and France

Most of the battles of the Civil War were fought in the North.

• True

• False

To keep the South from selling crops and buying supplies, the North ________________ their ports.

• closed

• amputated

• blockaded

• destroyed

Clara Barton was one of thousands of women to do what for the first time during the Civil War?

• Cook

• fight as soldiers

• spy

• work as nurses

General _____________ wanted to punish the South, so he had his army burn Georgia as they marched.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• William Sherman

• Jefferson Davis

What else did Sherman want to do with his March to the Sea?

• Stop Georgia from supporting the Confederacy

• Destroy food, crops and railroads the Confederacy could use

• None of the above

• Both 1 and 2 are correct

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves

• Everywhere

• Only in the Confederacy