Civil War Test Review

A __________________________________________ is a state in which it was not legal to own slaves.

• Slave state

• Union

• free state

• Confederacy

The site of an 1863 Civil War battle won by the North that was a turning point in the war was ________________________________________________.

• Reconstruction

• Underground Railroad

• Gettysburg

• Emancipation Proclamation

A person who wanted to end, or abolish, slavery was known as an _________________________________________.

• Union

• Underground Railroad

• Abolitionist

• Free state

A ______________________________________ was a state in which it was legal to own slaves.

• Slave state

• free state

• Union

• Confederacy

To ________________________ means to officially withdraw from a government or a country.

• Reconstruction

• Union

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Secede

The ________________________________ was the government, armies, and citizens of the states that chose to remain a part of the United States during the Civil War.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Free State

• Gettysburg

The ______________________________________ was a system in which abolitionists secretly helped escaping slaves reach freedom.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction

• Free State

• Underground Railroad

The ______________________________________________ was President Abraham Lincoln’s order to free slaves in states that were still fighting the Union, and to allow African Americans into the Union army and navy.

• Abolitionist

• Slave State

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Reconstruction

______________________________________ is the process by which Congress tried to rebuild the South and reunite it with the Union after the Civil War.

• Gettysburg

• Confederacy

• Secede

• Reconstruction

The ___________________________________ is the nation that was formed by the 11 states that left the Union.

• Confederacy

• Union

• Reconstruction

• free state