Civil War Quiz

The economy in the northern part of the United States was ________ and depended on manufacturing.

• agricultural
• industrial

• union

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________ campaigned or worked to get the United States government to end slavery

• slave owners
• abolitionist

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

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

The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Fort Western
• Fort Apache

What did the North call its strategy to blockade the South's coastline and gain control of the Mississippi River?

• Anaconda Plan
• Rattlesnake Plan
• Scorpion Plan
• Blockade Plan

This law gave southerners more opportunity to have their escaped slaves caught and returned to their masters in the south.

• Annexation of Texas
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Laws
• Missouri Compromise

Who was the the President of the Confederacy?

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

The President during the Civil War was ______________________.

• Thomas Jefferson 
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay 
• Robert E. Lee

What is the significance of the states shaded light blue on this map?

• These states were the first five to secede.

• These border states allowed slavery but stayed with the Union.

• These states were the last five to secede.

• These border states did not allow slavery but refused to be involved in the war.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation offer?

• All enslaved people across the nation were freed.

• Enslaved people in rebelling states were freed.

• Enslaved people in American territories were freed.

• Enslaved people in the Union were freed.