Civil War Quiz Review

The Anaconda Plan by the North included which components?

• Take as many Southern cities as possible

• blockade southern cities/ports and capture Mississippi River

• Invade South Carolina and Alabama

• Take Richmond Last

Why did the "lower South" (deep south) leave / secede from the Union?

• Lincoln's Election

• The Gettysburg Address

• Attack on Ft. Sumter

• A peace treaty was signed recognizing their independence

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

• Robert E Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• James Longstreet

• Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's primary goal at the start of the war was

• To end slavery

• To punish the South for seceding

• To preserve the Union

• To gain wealth through cotton

The Emancipation Proclamation applied to

• Every state in the Union

• Southern States that seceded

• In all western territory

• Only the North

One advantage the Confederacy had in the early years of the war was:

• Better Weapons

• Larger population

• Superior Factories

• Better Military Leadership

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

The name given to army from the North.

• Confederates

• Americans

• Military

• Union

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military