Civil WAr

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?

• to help slaves escape to freedom

• to provide an underground train that slaves could ride on

• a way to sneak soldiers across enemy lines

• a plan to end the Civil War

What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?

• to help slaves escape to freedom

• to provide an underground train that slaves could ride on

• a way to sneak soldiers across enemy lines

• a plan to end the Civil War

More factories, more railroads, more soldiers, and a better navy were all ______________.

• Confederate advantages

• Union advantages

• reasons for a Confederate victory

• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

Southern General from Virginia who led the South's largest army and lost a major battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

General Sherman led his troops through Georgia toward Savannah and destroyed  things that Southerners needed for war.

• Sherman's March to the Sea
• Fort Sumter
• Gettysburg
• John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Why was the battle of Antietam an important turning point in the war?

• It made President Lincoln happy.

• The Union win allowed President Lincoln to give the Emancipation Proclamation.

• It made the Confederacy too scared to fight.