Civil War Review

What are the main reasons the American Civil War began?

• slavery and secession

• slavery and states rights

• Abraham Lincoln

• cotton

In the South, the economy was largely based on...

• farming

• factories

• oil

• imports

In 1860 ______ was elected the 16th President of the United States.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E.Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

The first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election was...

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Georgia

• Florida

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when confederate troops fired on ______ in Charleston, SC.

• Fort Sumter

• Fort Lincoln

• Gettysburg

• General Lee

Lincoln's ________ in 1863 stated that all slaves in the South/ Confederacy were freed.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Civil War

• Slavery

The 13th Amendment's goal was to ...

• give women the right to vote

• allow states to leave the Union

• free the slaves

• win the war

Who was the Confederacy's leading General?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Harriet Tubman

• Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant was the Union army's leading General. What happened to him after the war?

• He died

• He became President

• He joined the Confederacy

• He killed Abraham Lincoln

The Civil War completely devastated the ____ because most of the war was fought there.

• North

• South

• England

• slaves