Civil War Review

The Emancipation Proclamation

• made slavery legal

• began slavery

• ended slavery in the Confederate states

• ended slavery only in the North

Lincoln came to believe the only way he could save the Union is if he did what?

• Put the Irish in Prison
• Let the South win the war
• Emancipate the Slaves
• Ask France to fight for the Union

Slaves would only be set free in what parts of the country?

• Only the states still at war with the Union
• In the four loyal slave states
• Confederate lands already captured by the Union
• Kansas

Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who won the Civil War?

• The Union

• The Confederacy

• Mexico

• Europe

What was Lincoln’s primary purpose for delivering the Gettysburg Address? 

• to commemorate a great Union victory
• to dedicate a cemetery
• to launch his reelection campaign
• to consecrate the ground

According to Lincoln, men gave their lives at Gettysburg ______.

• to hallow the ground
• that the nation might live
• to stop the Confederate advance into Pennsylvania
• so that slavery would be abolished

What does perish mean? 

• continue
• liberate
• spoil
• die

Which one of these states was a border state during the Civil War?

• Texas
• Maryland
• Virginia
• West Virginia

Which word means to leave or withdraw from?

• Secede

• Ironclad

• Border State

• Casualty