Civil War Test Review (3rd Grade SC Standards)

People who worked to end slavery were...

• abolitionists

• southerners

• blockades

• cartridges

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• He had a plan to raise taxes.

• They believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life.

• He wanted the northern states to secede from the Union.

• They wanted a president who would support abolition of slavery.

One reason South Carolina chose to leave the union was because...

• Our state was too far away from the capital.

• The other states refused to trade with South Carolina.

• People believed our state's rights were being denied.

• Plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses.

What happened at the Secession Convention?

• The leaders all got sick with yellow fever.

• The leaders decided not to secede.

• The leaders got into a fist, and nothing was solved.

• The leaders signed the Ordinance of Secession, which said South Carolina had left the Union.

The firing on Fort Sumter took place because the:

• Confederated wanted to destroy the fort.

• Union wanted to get control of the fort.

• Confederated wanted to punish the soldiers there.

• Confederated were upset that the US still had control over a fort in the South.

Lincoln ordered the blockade of Charleston and the entire South to:

• keep southerners from escaping to the North

• keep the South from getting any supplies

• keep a close watch on the South

• Catch seafood along the coast.

Why did the Union take over Port Royal?

• To get a base in the South where it could keep soldiers and supplies.

• To capture slaves there and make them work for the Union.

• To force the white plantation owners there to leave.

• To have a place in the South where it could build textile mills.

Why did people in Charleston send their families and belongings to Columbia during Sherman's march?

• They wanted to be close to the action of the war.

• Union soldiers forced them to move to Columbia.

• They thought Sherman would attack Charleston and they would be safe in Columbia.

• They were trying to get away from a disease that broke out in Charleston