USI.9d & 9e, People and Events of the Civil War

Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War, who believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

Control of the High Ground was extremely important in this battle in July of 1863.

• The First Battle of Manassas

• The Battle of Vicksburg

• The Battle of Antietam

• The Battle of Gettysburg

Located in Northern Virginia near Washington D.C., this battle was the first major battle of the Civil War.

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• 1st Battle of Manassas or Bull Run

• Appomattox

_______________________ worked as an advisor for President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. He will will advise Lincoln on how to use colored troops during the war.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• William T. Sherman

Who believed the United State was one nation (a Union), not a collection of individual states? If necessary, it should be held together my force.

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

This Civil War General was offered the job as the head of the Union Forces when the war began, but he turned it down, because he did not want to fight against his native Virginia.

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

__________________________ will serve as the only President of the Confederate States of American from February 1861 until 1865.

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall)

The document that said that all enslaved people in slave states that openly rebelled against the United States were now free was called the _______________________ .

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Bill of Rights

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Rights

Naval Blockades were important in helping the North gain victory in the Civil for this reason.

• Because they wanted to gain allies with European Countries

• Because they wanted to help increase trade with other countries

• Because they liked sailing along the coastline

• Because they wanted to cut off supplies, trade, and travel for the Confederacy

The Battle of ______________________ was considered the turning point of the Civil War.

• Chancellorsville

• Bull Run

• Vicksburg

• Gettysburg