Civil War Test Review

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

The name given to army from the North.

• Confederates

• Americans

• Military

• Union

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military

This was the president of the Confederate States.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis

This was the President of the Union.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

What is the name for people who wanted to put an end to slavery?

• Underground Railroaders 
• Suffragists
• Bushwackers
• Abolitionists

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

Match the following events to their impact on the U.S. Civil War

• Turning point in the South; Union control of Mississippi River

• Battle of Antietam

• Turning Point in the North

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Confederacy surrenders

• Battle of Vicksburg

• First Battle of the Civil War

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Bloodiest 1-day battle in American history

• Battle of Gettysburg

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After General Robery E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the main priority United States was to-

• elect a new president and vice president

• complete construction of the Capitol

• establish Union forts in the former Confederate states

• implement a plan to bring Confederate states back into the Union.