Module 3 Study Guide Civil War

What event led to the war with Mexico?

• Annexing the Texas Republic

• Arkansas joining the Union

Select the FALSE statement below on President Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address.

• President Lincoln was present to help dedicate the opening of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

• President Lincoln was the main speaker at Gettysburg.

Read the following line from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address then answer the question that follows.

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

President Abraham Lincoln

[Source: National Archives, 2018]

In this line, Lincoln is giving which of the following?

• A call to quickly end slavery.

• A call to action for Americans.

Union forces were able to outnumber General Lee and bring victory at what location?

• Appomattox Court House

• Richmond

Following the Mexican-American War, the United States paid $15 million and left Mexico City in return for the land these states currently reside.

• New Mexico and California

• Texas

This trail was used for settlers going west for the rain and farmland.

• Oregon Trail

• Santa Fa Trail

What event led to the war with Mexico?

• Annexing the Texas Republic

• Settlers Moving West

Americans moving west found which of the following in doing so?

• Religious Freedom

• Freedom from Debts in the East

• New Prosperity

• All of the Above

Following the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union army started to accept African Americans as soldiers.

• True

• False

The Battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) was shocking because it provided the brutality that would come during the Civil War.

• True

• False