Quiz #1

The Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to slaves

• in the border states

• in Union-held states and territories

• in Confederate-held states and territories

• in the North as well as in the South

This Civil War-era illustration is showing...

• Grant's victory at Shiloh.

• Sherman’s “March to the Sea”.

• Scott’s victory at Gettysburg.

• The Union blockade of the South.

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• preserve the Union.

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• encourage sectionalism.

• end slavery throughout the entire country.

Finish the statement - Battle of Gettysburg was...

• considered to be the turning point in the war & the most important battle of the war.

• a town in which Union general Ulysses S. Grant accepted the surrender of Confederate general Robert E Lee, ending the Civil War.

• a speech given by Lincoln in which he praised Union soldiers bravery and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War

• the worst defeat for the Union in the Civil War

Which statement BEST compares attitudes of the North and South during the Civil War?

• Leaders of the South were much less experienced than in the North, so soldiers respected them less.

• Soldiers in the South knew they would win the war, so they put in less effort than Northern soldiers.

• Southern leaders felt the war was pointless and wanted to end it, while Northern leaders wanted it to continue.

• Early in the war Southern soldiers felt they were being invaded, so they fought to defend their homeland.

The Union strategy to win the war was to

• do nothing and let the Confederacy come to them

• Put up a naval blockade around the South, so they couldn't export their cotton.

• Ask Mexico to help attack the South

• Attack their capital city, Richmond

Border States were

• Slave states that seceded to the Confederacy

• Free states that remained in the Union

• Slave states that didn't join either side

• Slave states that remained in the Union

What was the purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?

• to accept the South's surrender

• to surrender to the South

• to give an update of how the country was doing

• to motivate the Union to help the war effort

Finish the statement: The Battle of Antietam was...

• a Union Victory at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War that turned the tide against the Confederates

• an act creating two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, where voters would decide the slavery.

• a Union victory in Maryland during the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history.

• a nation formed by the southern states on February 4, 1861; also known as the Confederacy.

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Chickamauga

• Fort Sumter