Check Understanding: Civil War Events & People

Put the events in the correct order, first to last:

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Election of 1860

• Firing on Fort Sumter

• Surrender at Appomadox Court House

• Missouri Compromise

Who was the first and only President of the Confederate States of America?

• Robert E. Lee

• Stonewall Jackson

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• Freed enslaved people in Confederate states

• Did not free enslaved people in Border States

• Refocused the war on ending slavery.

• Encouraged former slaves to flee north or revolt.

Match the person to thier importance:

• Skilled Confederate general from VA.

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• Nurse that founded the Red Cross.

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• Hellped create the US Colored Troops.

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• Ran a spy network for the Union.

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Match the person to thier importance:

• African American Navy Captian.

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• Union Generall.

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• Spy in the Confederate White House.

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• Worked as Union spy and scout.

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• Confederate Generall.

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He was the President of the United States during the Civil War:

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee...

• Surendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.

• Was offered command of Union forces, but didn't want to fight agains Virginia.

• Opposed secession, but didn't want the union held together by force.

• Urged southerners to acept defeat after the Civil War.

Sort the battles into the catteogry for how they were influenced by geography:

Groups:

(a) Controll of Waterways

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(b) Controll of Capitol Cities

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(c) Other/More than One

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Surrender at Appomattox Court House

• First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

• Fort Sumter

• Battle of Vicksburg

Three Ways geography influecned battles in the Civil War:

• Control of Waterways

• Control of Capital Cities

• Control of the High Ground

• Control of Resources

The Anaconda Plan is an example of what infleucne of Geography?

• Control of Waterways

• Control of the Capitol Cities

• Control of the High Ground