Civil War Test Review

The following statement is an accurate description of Sherman's March to the Sea;

The March to the Sea was led by General William Sherman. It was the journey of the Union Army from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. During that trip the Union Army destroyed all factories, railroads, and farms along their path. This was known as total warfare.

• True

• False

Northerners who came to the South to take advantage?

• Carpetbaggers

• Native Americans

• Mormons

• Puritans

Who was general of the Union Army?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

The Emancipation Proclamation

• declared ALL slaves free

• declared slaves free in rebellion states

• gave political power to the south

• started the constitution

What was the significance of Robert E. Lee's surrender?

• It had no significance. It was just another battle in a long war.

• It meant that the South had won the Civil War.

• It meant that the Civil War was pretty much over and that the North had won.

Which of the Reconstruction Amendments addressed the right of African-American males to vote?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Identify Letter B in this picture

• Confederate States of America/ Confederacy

• Union

What was the importance of capturing the city of Vicksburg?

• The Confederacy was now divided into two separate parts, which limit their fighting.

• The Union now prevented all imports into the Confederacy.

• The capital of the Confederacy was now in Union hands

• The Union was able to prevent all cotton exports from the South.

Series of laws that restricted the rights of Freedmen

• Voting Rights

• Black Codes

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation immediately set all the slaves in the United States free?

• TRUE

• FALSE