Civil War Review

The Confederates were fighting a(n)

• offensive war
• defensive war

Even though these were states where slavery was legal, they did not secede and join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Fort Pillow
• Fort Apache

Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to seced?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln

What were the reasons for the start of the civil war?

• economy, slavery, new states
• economy, jobs, income
• slavery, new states
• economy, new states

Bloodiest Battle day of the war (23,000 casualties) Confederates lost 1/3 of their army.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of the Bulge
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Fort Sumter

First "battle" of the Civil War- fought for 2 days. The Union eventually surrendered.

• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Battle of Red River

First real battle of the war. It was fought in Virginia. Kept the North out of Richmond; gave South confidence

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle Shiloh
• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse
• Battle of Little Big Horn

Ended Southern control of the Mississippi River Valley; fought in Tennessee

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Fort Sumter