Civil War

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

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

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

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Fort Pillow
• Fort Apache

What was a major strength of the Union?

• education
• slavery
• more churches
• factories

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What was a major weakness of the Confederacy?

• more factories
• smaller populations
• larger populations
• poor populations

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What was the major goal of the Confederacy at the onset of the Civil War?

• To overthrow the government and set up a monarchy
• To become independent
• To spread slavery to the North
• To eliminate slavery in the border states

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery
• to end British control of the Western territories
• to make a profit selling war supplies
• to preserve the Union

This freed the slaves in Confederate states.

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Gettysburg Address 
• The Battle of Antietam 
• The Emancipation Proclamation

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