Civil War

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

• agricultural
• industrial

• union

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CCSS.RL.8.9

The economy in the southern part if the United States was agricultural and relied on ______.

• immigrants
• slaves

Southern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be ______.

• free
• slave

Virginia seceded from the Union along with other southern states to form the ______.

• Confederate States of the Union
• Confederate States Of America
• Confederate Union

The capital of the Confederacy was ____.

• Washington
• Williamsburg
• Richmond

Virginians were divided about secession from the Union which led to the formation of ____.

• Tennessee
• West Virginia
• Kentucky

The Civil War began in ______.

• 1865
• 1860
• 1861

The first Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) was the first major battle of the Civil War. _______ played a major role in this battle.

• Andrew Jackson
• John Brown
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

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CCSS.RL.8.9

The Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia who defeated Union troops in a battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1862 was General ________.

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Stonewall Jackson
• Robert E. Lee

President Lincoln used the Union navy to blockade southern ports. An important sea battle between two iron-clad ships, the ____ (Union) and the _____ (Confederate) took place in waters near Hampton and Norfolk.

• Monitor, Manassas
• Monitor, Merrimack
• Saratoga, Merrimack