Events of the Civil War

What was the order given on Jan. 1, 1863 by Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves?

• Ft. Sumter
• Battle of Bull Run
• Gettysburg Address
• Emancipation Proclamation

The first battle of the American Civil War and signaled the start of the war. 

• Ft. Sumter
• Gettysburg
• Antietam
• Bull Run

It was the bloodiest battle in American history, Union victory there led to the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Ft. Sumter

The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865.

• Appomattox Courthouse
• Ft. Sumter
• Bull Run
• Missouri Compromise of 1850

How is the event pictured important to the Civil War?

• Passing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• After 4 years of war, the war was over.

• Abraham Lincoln was shot.

• South won on northern soil.

Why was the loss of the Mississippi River help in the defeat of the Confederacy?

• The river was a physical barrier between slave and free states.

• Water from the river helped power factories in the South.

• River was used to gain access to the Union's military bases.

• Losing the river split the Confederacy in half and cut off its supplies.

This event shows what importance to the Civil War?

• Confederate attack was the first shots fired in the war.

• Confederates defended the fort which lengthened the war.

• Invasion of a Confederate capital ended up in the surrender of the Confederacy.

• Union wins and divides the Confederacy along the Ohio River.

The Union had a lot of advantages over the Confederacy, but the Union specifically had-

• strong generals and were more comfortable with living outside.

• more economic advantages and more ways of communicating.

• most battles were fought on their own territory and used guerilla warfare.

• more military resources than the South.