The Civil War

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

3 day battle that the South lost and is considered the turning point in the war

• Gettysburg
• Fort Sumter
• The Atlanta Campaign
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The 1^st and only President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

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

Why were the southern states alarmed that Lincoln was elected president in 1860?

• They feared that he wanted to eventually abolish slavery in the U.S.

• Lincoln had campaigned on the promise to expand slavery into the west.

• Lincoln was a slaveholder.

• Northern states wanted Lincoln to expel southern states from the Union.

The states that seceded from the union formed a new country called:

• the Confederate States of America

• the Southern United States of America

• the Federation of America

• the Lone Star Republic

Why did the first Civil War battle take place in Ft. Sumter?

• Northern (Union) soldiers tried to capture the city of Charleston.

• The Confederate Navy wanted to seize control of South Carolina.

• The Confederacy wanted to take control of the fort since it was in Confederate territory.

• Confederate forces wanted to move their capital to Ft. Sumter.

During the Civil War, slave states that decided to stay with the Union were called ____ states.

• confederate

• middle

• border

• blue

In September 1862, Lincoln signed the ________________________________ which freed all slaves in the rebelling Confederate states.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Appomattox Court House

• March to the Sea

• South Carolina

President Lincoln gave a famous speech at the site of one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the Civil War. This speech became known as the __________________________________.

• Bull Run

• Appomattox Court House

• Gettysburg Address

• 13 U.S. Colored Troops

Which of these was the greatest cause of death in the Civil War?

• wounds 
• frostbite
• disease
• starvation