Civil War Final Exam Review

The Battle of Vicksburg was important in the Civil War because it --

• allowed the Confederate army to seize Washington D.C.
• broke the Union blockade along the Gulf of Mexico
• enabled the Confederate army to seek French assistance
• gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to 

• uphold national honor
• prevent foreign involvement
• free all slave 
• preserve the Union

What advantage did the South have the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing
• more effective navy
• better government
• more capable military leaders

Showing loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country is known as

• states' rights
• secede
• sharecropper
• sectionalism

The Southern economy was based MOSTLY on:

• Paid workers
• Industry
• Agriculture
• Goods & Services

The Northern economy was based MOSTLY on:

• Unpaid workers

• Industry

• Agriculture

• Goods & Services

This state was the site of the first battle of the Civil War and the 1st to secede

• North Carolina
• Georgia
• South Carolina 
• Middle Carolina

This battle was the single bloodiest of the Civil War

• Antietam 
• Gettysburg
• Shiloh
• Vicksburg

This battle was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg
• Antietam 
• Fort Sumter
• Vicksburg

This battle is considered a turning point in the war, after which the North began winning

• Antietam
• Gettysburg 
• Fort Sumter
• Shiloh