8.6: The War's End

Why did both the Union Army and Confederate Army want control of the Mississippi River?

• they both needed water supply for their soldiers

• it linked the eastern and western Confederate states

• the banks of the river were good places to establish military camps

• it provided water for crops

At the Seige of Vicksburg, who won control of the Mississippi River?

• Union

• Confederacy

In Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, he made several major points including:

• the survival of the nation depended on the Union staying together

• all men are created equal

• equality for African Americans was a core purpose of the nation

• all of the above

• none of the above

In Sherman's March to the Sea, why did the Union army burn barns, homes, bridges, and factories?

• to make sure they had an easy path to their next destination

• so they could draw attention with the fire and other Union troops could meet them there

• to make it so the slaves did not have to work anymore

• to destroy anything useful to the South

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Civil War?

• states continued to believe in the idea that they could secede

• the Union was preserved

• slavery ended in the U.S.

• power of the federal government grew