Civil War Vocabulary Quiz

Before the Civil War, many northerners __________ slavery as a terrible evil, but yet wanted to go to war because of it. Abraham Lincoln, too, personally hated slavery but was prepared to accept it if by doing so the Union could be preserved.

Once the war began, however, many in the North argued that the time had come to __________ slavery once and for all.

In 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the enslaved in the states of the Confederacy, __________.

Abraham Lincoln’s enemies called him a(n) __________ because he exercised so much power during the war.

Illustrators and photographers accompanied Union troops during some of the war’s bloodiest campaigns, leaving us an important __________ record of the horrors experienced by the soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

Some African Americans who have __________ from enslaved families have shared dramatic stories of their ancestors’ experiences.

Without enough water, plant fibers dry out and become __________. If a drought lasts for a long time, plants and crops die.

If too many plants die, insects have no food, and the birds and animals that __________ on insects then lose their food supply, too.

The threat of __________ can drive animals great distances in search of food.

If these animals do not __________ their hunting area, they too will starve.