Georgia in the Civil War

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

The place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant.

• Fort Sumter
• Sherman's March to Sea
• Appomattox Court House
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed this calling for slaves in the Confederacy to be freed and making the Civil War's focus on slavery

• Free Slave Bill.

• Emancipation Proclamation.

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to 

• uphold national honor
• prevent foreign involvement
• free all slave 
• preserve the Union

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Which of the following were causes of the Civil War?

• Debate over Slavery

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Different lifestyles in the north and south

• All of the above

The plan to blockade Southern ports, gain control of the Mississippi River and capture the South's capital city was called

• the Anaconda Plan

• the Squeeze Play

• the Great Divide.

• Operation Breakdown

Secede

• Organized, secret system to help slaves in the South escape to freedom in the North

• The idea that the states could decide and make their own local laws

• To leave or separate from the union of the United States; to break away from

• Term used to describe someone who wanted to get rid of slavery

This city was the capital of the Union during the Civil War?

• Gettysburg, PA

• Washington D.C.

• Jackson, MS

• Richmond, VA