Civil War Test Review

The death of a large number of young men was a loss for the..

• North

• South

• Both the North and the South

• West

Word for states leaving the Union.

• Confederacy

• States' rights

• Secession

• Liberty

What was the cause for the Southern states to secede?

• Lincoln's election of 1860

• They didn't like the clothes the North wore

• The North was taking all of the slaves from the South because they needed help farming

What did the South fear with Lincoln's election?

• He would increase the amount of slavery used

• He would keep the North and South separated

• He would abolish slavery

• None of the above

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Gone with the Wind
• Across the Lines
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg

The place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant.

• Fort Sumter
• Sherman's March to Sea
• Appomattox Court House
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

An abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking an armory at Harpers Ferry, VA.

• Fort Sumter
• Sherman's March to Sea
• state's rights
• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

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