Civil War Pretest

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Gone with the Wind
• Across the Lines
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg

One of General Lee's most important generals who waqs known be strong, sturdy, and tough during battles and was accidentally killed by his own men.

• Jefferson Davis
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

War between people of the same country

• secede
• state's rights
• civil war
• slavery

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army and lost a major battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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

The 1^st and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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

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

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

An abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking an armory at Harpers Ferry, VA.

• Fort Sumter
• Sherman's March to Sea
• state's rights
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

This caused widespread fear in the South about the future of slavery

• the election of Jefferson Davis
• High tariffs
• the election of Abraham Lincoln
• the death of Stonewall Jackson