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