Unit 11 Civil War Unit Test Review

_______________senators were afraid they would be outvoted in the Senate if there were more free states than slave states.

• southern

• northern

• American

• Confederate

1.    After reading _____________________, many more people wanted to abolish slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Sectionalism

_______________ had a sworn duty to preserve the Union and not let it be torn apart.

• Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Americans

• John C. Calhoun

While southern states felt they had a right to _______________, northerners viewed them as traitors.

• secede

• abolish

• ironclads

• vote

The South had strong __________________.

• military leadership

• ironclads

• secede powers

• treason

_______________were not allowed to fight for either side in the Civil War, although they did help in other ways.

• women

• northerners

• southerners

• Confederates

_____________were used for the first time during the Civil War making wooden warships obsolete.

• ironclads

• wooden warships

• voting booths

• total war

When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, only slaves in rebellious, or ________________, states were free.

• Confederate

• Union

• Treason

• Wilmot Proviso

Sherman’s March to the Sea, through Georgia, was an example of ___________

• total war

• ironclads

• Confederate Warfare

• secession

Although Grant could have had Confederate troops stand trial for __________ after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, he chose not to in order to avoid further suffering and in an effort to return the Union back to normal as quickly as possible.

• treason

• ironclads

• preservation

• seccesion