Civil War Quiz review 2020

Northern states had what distinct advantage over Southern states at the onset of the Civil War?

• The North had a more extensive railroad network than the South.

• The value of Northern agricultural products exceeded the value of Southern agricultural products

• The military command of the North was more effective than that of the South

• The North had more coastline than the south.

According to the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African Americans who lived in states that were in rebellion, were treated as___________ by Union forces.

• military contraband

• servants

• the militia

• spies

How did the rebellion states attempt to compensate for its disadvantages?

• Southern military leaders devised the Anaconda Plan to end the war quickly.

• Confederate leaders remained within their own territory at all times.

• Southern leaders relied on foreign governments for manufactured goods for war.

• The South quickly began building factories and railroad lines.

Bloodiest single day of the war.

• Battles of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

Place the following events in chronological order from earliest to latest

1. South establishes “King Cotton” as the basis of their economy

2. General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia

3. Sherman utilizes total war

4. President Lincoln is assassinated

5. Battle of Bull Run

6. Ulysses S Grant becomes the general of the Union Army

• 1,5,6,4,3,2

• 3,5,2,4,6,1

• 1,5,6,3,2,4

• 5,1,4,3,2,6

What was the south's reason for why they seceded from the Union?

• Lincoln could not end slavery because he did not win more than fifty percent of the popular vote

• The southern states believed that the Union should be preserved at all costs.

• they believed Lincoln would try to overturn their sovereignty.

• The southern states would have seceded regardless of who won the Election

Border States’ decision to stay with the Union was important for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:

• Border states allowed the Confederacy to move its capital to Richmond.

• Border States would have increased the South’s white fighting population by 45%

• Border States that stayed in the Union weakened the South’s argument for seceding to protect slavery.

• Border States decreased the manufacturing capacity in the South

General Lee will take fighting in the north

3 day battle with 51,000 casualties

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

Winning what battle will boost morale in the Union and get Lincoln Re-elected?

• Battle of Atlanta

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Bull Run

All African American regiment that bravely defended Ft. Wagner:

• 54th Massachusetts

• Glory Regiment

• Bull Run Regiment

• 49 Raiders