Civil War

During the Civil War, the the North was called:

• The Confederacy

• The Union

Before the Civil War, the South was mainly made up of:

• plantations

• factories

The slave states were mostly in the South

• False

• True

Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

• George Washington

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

The people who wanted slavery to end were called:

• freedom fighters

• patriots

• Pilgrims

• abolitionists

The Underground Railroad was:

• an underground train in the South

• secret caves used by the Confederacy

• a group of people that helped slaves escape by train in the night

• a new railroad built in the North

Harriet Tubman was:

• Abraham Lincoln's mother

• A slave owner

• A woman who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

• a nurse for the Confederacy

To abolish slavery means to

• support it

• to help maintain it

• to get rid of it

• to help pay for it

The Civil war began in:

• 1853

• 1861

• 1862

• 1999

The Emancipation Proclamation was:

• A document that started the Civil War

• The name of the Confederate soldiers

• a bill by George Washington

• a document that ended slavery