CIVILWAR TEST

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

Who won the Civil War?

• Union
• Confederates

WHAT POLITICAL PARTY WAS CREATED TO END SLAVERY?

• DEMOCRATIC
• REPUBLICAN
• WHIGS
• FREEDOM

Which of the following was not an advantage of the Confederate states during the Civil War?

• experienced soldiers and generals

• cotton industry

• Home field advantage

• Larger population

During the Civil War, the North was referred to as...

• The Confederacy

• The Union

Which social change was brought about by the 13th Amendment?

• formerly enslaved African Americans were granted land

• enslaved African Americans were made United States citizens

• African Americans living in the South were given the right to vote

• the practice of enslaving people was outlawed in the United States

The American Civil War started on April 12, 1861 when-

• South Carolina seceded from the Union

• Confederate Army soldiers fired on Fort Sumter

• Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States

• Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States

Lincoln ordered a blockade of Charleston and the entire south to:

• keep a closer watch on the South

• keep the South from getting any supplies

• catch seafood along the coast

• keep southerners from escaping to the North

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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