US History: Standard 9

The place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant.

• Fort Sumter
• Sherman's March to Sea
• Appomattox Court House
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

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

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

3 day battle that the South lost and is considered the turning point in the war

• Gettysburg
• Fort Sumter
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

More factories, population, and a better navy

• Southern advantages
• Northern advantages
• Reasons for  Southern victory
• Cause of the battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending homes, don't have to go on the attack

• Northern advantages
• reasons North won the battle of Antietam
• Southern advantages
• reasons Minecraft is fun

What was a major strength of the Union?

• education
• slavery
• more churches
• factories

What was a major weakness of the Confederacy?

• factories
• smaller populations
• larger populations
• poor populations