Unit 2 Topic D - Civil War Review

How many states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America?

• 9

• 10

• 11

• 13

What invention in 1793 resulted in the need for cheap labor and slavery in the South?

• Steel-tipped Plow

• Power Loom

• Mechanical Reaper

• Cotton Gin

What event ignited the southern states to secede from the Union in 1860?

• Bleeding Kansas Incident

• The passing of the Fugitive Slave Law

• Election of Abraham Lincoln as President

• The attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina

Where did the American Civil War officially begin?

• Fort Knox, KY

• Fort Sumter, SC

• Fort McHenry, SC

• Fort Yorktown, VA

The two main generals for the North during the Civil War were Ulysses S. _____________ and William T. Sherman.

All of these were important leaders (generals) of the southern army EXCEPT

• Pierre Beauregard

• Robert E. Lee

• Stonewall Jackson

• Ulysses S. Grant

How many total American soldiers (North and South) died during the Civil War?

• 650,000

• 65,000

• 1.6 million

• 160,000

All of these were important battles of the Civil War EXCEPT

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Saratoga

In what year did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

• 1861

• 1862

• 1863

• 1865

At what battle on April 9, 1865 did the Northern General Ulysses Grant accept the surrender of the South by General Robert E. Lee ending the fighting in the Civil War?

• Antietam

• Appomattox Court House

• Saratoga

• Yorktown