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