Civil War Review

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

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

2. Who attacked an army post in Harper's Ferry, Virginia? He wanted to start a slave rebellion.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
• Jefferson Davis
• Stonewall Jackson

3. Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Georgia
• Tennessee
• South Carolina
• Florida

4. Why did the Southern states want to leave the union?

• a. They wanted to continue to have slaves
• b. They wanted to be rich
• c. They did not want Jefferson Davis as President
• d. They wanted to be free of England

5. What event started the Civil War on April 12, 1861?

• a. John Brown’s Raid
• b. The battle of Gettysburg
• c. The battle of Fort Sumter
• d. The battle of Vicksburg

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

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

7. Who was the general who burned down Atlanta and then marched his troops toward Savannah, GA?

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• William T. Sherman

8. Who became the president of the Confederate States of America?

• a. Abraham Lincoln
• b. Stonewall Jackson
• c. Jefferson Davis
• d. John Brown

9. General Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia used his strategy of total war. What did he and his troops do in that strategy?

• a. Gave money to the poor Southerners.
• b. Destroyed railroads, burned homes and businesses in the South, stole cattle and grain
• c. Sent supplies to the North
• d. Captured all slaves

10. Why do you think the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was so powerful?

• a. It made people aware of slavery and got people talking about slavery
• b. It was a biography of Lincoln
• c. The book criticized the North for having slaves
• d. The book criticized California for entering the Union as a slave state