9D Civil War Leaders

Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee had different views on the nature of the United States. These differing views led to

• a lifelong friendship

• Lee joining Lincoln's Union army

• unavoidable conflict

• Lincoln convincing Lee to change his viewpoint

Match the following

• General of the Union Army

• Grant

• Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia

• Jefferson Davis

• President of the United States

• Lincoln

• President of the Confederate States of America

• Robert E. Lee

Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address said the Civil War was to​ ​ (a)   a government of the people ​ (b)   the people, ​ (c)   the people

• preserve
• by
• for

Abraham Lincoln was... select all that are true.

• He was President of the Confederate States of America

• He opposed the spread of slavery

• He issued the Emancipation Proclamation

• He was determined to preserve the Union, by force if necessary

• He supported the succession of Southern states.

What two things did Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson have in common?

• They are both Confederate generals

• They both had five sons

• They are both from Virginia

• They both worked closely with Lincoln during the war.

At the beginning of the war, Robert E. Lee accepted command of the Union Army going against his home state of Virginia.

• True

• False

Who believed that the United States was one nation and not a collection of independent states?

• Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Grant

• Robert E. Lee

Select all that are TRUE about Frederick Douglass.

• Former enslaved African American

• Did not support the Civil War

• Promoted African American involvement in the Civil War

• Created the United States Colored Troops

​ ​ (a)   urged ​ (b)   to ​accept defeat at the end of the war and ​ (c)   as Americans when some people wanted to fight on.

• Robert E. Lee
• Southerners
• reunite
• Northerners
• break away from