BTMS_USI9D: Civil War Leaders

Which of the following was NOT a belief held by Abraham Lincoln?

• The states had freely joined the union and could freely leave it.

• The United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states.

• The Union should be preserved by force if necessary.

• We needed to preserve a government that was "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

Who was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia even though he opposed secession and slavery?

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis was _____.

• President of the United States

• a Union naval captain

• a great Southern general

• President of the Confederate States

Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?

• The leader of the Army of Northern Virginia.

• The leader of the Northern forces.

• A skilled Confederate general from Virginia

• A former enslaved African American who became an important abolitionist.

Ulysses S. Grant was the _____.

• skilled Southern general who led Confederate troops at the first Battle of Manassas

• general of the Union army that defeated Lee

• person who crafted the Compromise of 1850

• President of the United States during the Civil War

_____ was president of the United States.

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

_____ issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

_____ was offered the command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war, but chose not to fight against Virginia.

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln gave the _____ which said that purpose of the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

• Articles of Government

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Declaration of Sentiments

_____ was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War.

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert Smalls

• Frederick Douglass

• Ulysses S. Grant