Mrs. Hart's Civil War Quiz

Causes of the Civil War

• States' Rights, Bleeding Kansas, 1860 Election of President Lincoln

• many casualties, ironclad ships, Emancipation Proclamation

• blockades, enlist, Rebels and Yankees

• Lincoln Memorial, new amendments, suffering

Effects of the Civil War

• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

• secession

abolitionist

• a monument built in honor of someone

• suffer patiently

• to give up or quit

• a person who felt slavery was evil and wrong

states' rights

• an article added to the U.S. Constitution

• the rights and powers held by individual states

• to withdraw or break away from the whole

• join the military

Another name for the Northern States is what?

Another name for the Confederacy is what?

blockade

• to give up or quit

• a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out

• a ship covered in iron plates

• a large number of people that share a common history, culture, or language

Who was the Confederate General who stood his ground like a stone wall?

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Frederick Douglass

Who was a Civil War nurse and then later started the American Red Cross?

• Harriet Tubman

• Clara Barton

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Wilkes Booth

Who killed President Lincoln?

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

• John Wilkes Booth