Civil War

One advantage of the Confederacy was

• superior military leadership

• superior transportation system

• greater financial resources

• a larger population

What announcement encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union and shifted the focus of the war to freedom for all.

• President Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The 13th Amendment

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address____

• allowed Lincoln to celebrate the surrender of all Confederate forces

• explained the purpose of the Civil War in a brief, eloquent statement

• concluded with the phrase "with malice towards none,with charity toward all."

• promised the passage of the 13th Amendment, ending slavery

After the Battle of Vicksburg the Union controlled the Mississippi River and was able to ___

• safely bring freed slaves to the North

• cut off Confederate supplies from the west

• move captured soldiers to prisons more easily

• successfully attack Confederate camps and forts

Walt Whitman's poem O Captain My Captain describes ___

• success of the US Navy

• loss of the Southern way of life

• the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox

• assassination of President Lincoln

Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who was Lincoln referring to when he said, "my dissatisfied countrymen?"

• the audience listening to the inaugural address

• members of Congress who represent northern states

• men who enlisted and served in the Confederate Army

• citizens of states threatening to secede from the Union

Lincoln stated it was his duty as President to protect the US from being destroyed in his

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 2nd Inaugural Address

• 1st Inaugural Address

• Gettysburg Address

Which 3 day battle is considered a turning point which severely weakened the South who never invaded the North again?

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

• Vicksburg

• Ft. Sumter

Who was an immigrant from Chile who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery during the attack on Ft Fisher?

• William Carney

• George McClellan

• Phillip Bazaar

• Ulysses S Grant