Civil War Quiz

6. What were the people who fought to end slavery called?

• a. Terrorists
• b. Freedomists
• c. Pilgrims
• d. Abolitionists

1. What was a major cause of the Civil War?

• a. land
• b. economy
• c. Taxes
• d. Slavery

Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America.

• State's rights

• Confederacy

• Reconstruction

• Union

Union

• The United States; also the Northern States that remained part of the nation and fought against the Confederacy in the Civil War.

• Together, the Southern states that left the United States and formed their own nation; the Confederate States of America.

• The division of groups of people, usually by race

• A person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.

20. Which of the following is true about the end of the Civil War?

• a. Grant surrendered to Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
• b. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
• c. Lee surrendered to Grant at Richmond Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
• d. The Union surrendered at the battle of Gettysburg. This ended the war.

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military

13th Amendment

• Abolished Slavery

• Gave all males the right to vote regardless of race.

• Guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens; granted citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in the US.

• The division of groups of people, usually by race.

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

Secession

• A system in which someone who owns land lets someone else "rent" the land to farm it.

• The separation of the state from a nation.

• Before the Civil War, a series of secret routes out of the South along which escaped slaves traveled to freedom in the North.

• The division of groups pr people, usually by race.

What event led to Southern states seceding from the Union?

• Confederates fired on Fort Sumter

• the election of Lincoln as President

• The Missouri Compromise

• the annexation of Texas