WorksheetsSlavery and the Civil War
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Worksheet time: 43mins
What is a "Border State"?
A state that borders New York
A state filled with restless children when their WI-FI goes out
A slave state that stayed loyal to the United States
A state that is next to another state
Which of the following were Union Advantages heading into the Civil War? Select all that apply
Large population
More railroads
More money
Better Generals
Which of the following were Confederate advantages heading into the Civil War? Select all that apply
Better generals
Fighting a defensive war to preserve their way of life
Cotton-to trade with European countries
Amount of slaves to fight in the war
Better knowledge of firearms and horses
General Sherman's March to the Sea is best described as an example of...
Marching
Apriling
Total War
Mostly War
"Total War" is best described by...
Allowing the navy to trade with enemy
Destroying farms, town, cities, railroads to hurt the civilian life and destroy enemy morale
Women and children being involved in fighting the enemy
Twice the amount of "Half War"
Which TWO battles are considered the turning points of the Civil War?
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Antietam
Chancelorsville
Why did President Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address? Select all that apply
To honor those soldiers that fought and died in the Battle of Gettysburg
To continue the goals of the Union, to fight to end slavery and bring the nation together
To look to the future and see a nation united by the citizens
To celebrate the capture of the Mississippi River
How did General Ulysses S. Grant show General Robert E. Lee respect at Appomattox Courthouse? Select all that apply
Grant allowed Lee to keep his personal weapon
Grant allowed Lee to ride out on his horse leading his men
Grant allowed Lee to continue to fight against the Union
Grant followed President Lincoln's words "to have malice toward none, charity for all"
What did President Lincoln mean when he said at his Second Inaugural Address, "With malice toward none, with charity for all."
The United States must allow the former Confederacy to easily and respectfully enter back into the nation
The United States must punish the former Confederacy to punish them for their betrayal
The former Confederacy must apologize for the Civil War and promise to never do it again
The former Confederacy cannot have any representatives in the United States Congress anymore
The Union states were located in the _____ and the Confederate states were located in the _____.
North
South
South
North
North
East
West
East
How did the Union hope to damage Confederate trade and transportation during the Civil War?
By patrolling rivers and the Gulf of Mexico
By attacking railroads
By blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River
By taking over Southern farms and factories
Why was the surrender at Vicksburg crucial to the success of the Union campaign in the West?
It allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River
It allowed the Union to surround the Capital city
It allowed the Union to Blockade important railroads
It allowed the Union to occupy new territories
This 1857 ruling declared slaves are property and not citizens therefore they had no rights.
What battle was the single, bloodiest day in the Civil War?
Bull Run
Antietam
Gettysburg
Manassas
Who was the commander of the Union Army after 1864?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
At which fort did the first hostilities of the Civil War take place?
Fort Wagner
Fort Sumter
Fort Hood
For Warren
Which of the following was the first all volunteer African American Company from Massachusetts?
The 54th
The Sons of Liberty
The Avengers
The Army of Northern Virginia
What was Douglas's solution in the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would allow the people in the territories to determine whether they would be slave or free?
Habeas Corpus
Popular Sovereignty
Divine Right
Manifest Destiny
John White led a slave revolt
Which sequence of events correctly identifies a rise in tensions, bringing the nation closer to war?
John Brown's Raid, Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Raid on Harper's Ferry.
Compromise of 1850, Missouri Compromise, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown's Raid.
Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Compromise of 1850.
What event occurred right before the southern states started to secede?
Lincoln elected president
Slavery was outlawed in the North
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War?
to promote domestic industries of the South
to strangle the shipment of supplies and trade to and from the confederacy
to motivate enslaved African Americans to migrate North
To prevent Southern states and their sympathizers from rejoining the Union
What was a significant impact of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Slaves in Northern states were freed
The war became a moral contest over slavery
Slaves in Border States were immediately freed
African Americans were admitted into the Confederate army
Which event was the catalyst for the secession of the first seven Southern
states in 1861?
passage of a higher protective tariff
issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation
the election of Abraham Lincoln as President
the shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter
What were the major consequences of the Civil War?
the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal
government
recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify
federal laws
an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality
throughout the nation
the abolition of slavery in all Northern states and in all federal territories
north of 36° 30' N
Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War?
Southerners feared that Northerners intended to abolish slavery.
Southern states wanted a free hand in suppressing local slave revolts.
The
Dred Scott
decision led Northern state officials to defy federal law.
Northerners opposed the shipment of Southern cotton to Great Britain.
The excerpt below is from a recently written history of the Civil War.
What were the rights and liberties for which Confederates contended? The
right to own slaves; the liberty to take this property into the territories; freedom from the coercive powers of a centralized government.
—James McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom
What contradiction does this Civil War historian find in the secession of the Southern states?
Confederates were outnumbered by Northerners
Confederates demanded the freedom to enslave others
Confederates believed that states had the right to leave the Union.
Confederates felt that slaves were better treated than Northern factory
workers.
Use the following chart to answer the question that follows.
According to the bar graph, what region had the larger share of resources in the United States?
The South
The North
The West
All regions had equal amount of resources
What was the original goal of the Union at the start of the Civil War?
Ban slavery
Restore the Union
Separate from the United States
Make slavery legal everywhere
Disadvantages of the South during the Civil War included having a small navy, fewer railroads, and ______________.
Lack of agricultural land
larger population
Inexperienced military leaders
Lack of industries
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the war?
General Lee surrendered to the Union army after the battle.
There were nearly 48,000 casualties of the battle.
Lincoln emancipated the slaves after the Union victory at the battle.
It was the first major victory in the east for the Union and it raised the troops morale
At the end of which battle did General Grant and his troops secure control of the Mississippi River?
Antietam
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Richmond
Why did southern states feel threatened by the election of 1860?
The South feared that slaves would be given citizenship rights and sue for their freedom.
The South feared that Democrats would gain control of Congress.
The South feared that slavery would be abolished throughout the nation.
The South feared that the new president would prohibit slavery in the western territories.
Why did the battle of Fort Sumter occur?
South Carolinia had seceded and wanted the fort.
The Union wanted the fort.
The Confederacy wanted the gold stored in the fort.
The slaves wanted the fort.
What two states were added to the Union in order to keep free and slave representation even?
Florida and Wyoming
Kansas and Nebraska
Maine and Missouri
Utah and New Mexico
What previous compromise was overturned as a result of the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The Tenth Amendment
The Missouri Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise
Compromise of 1850
What piece of legislation led to the violence in Kansas?
Compromise of 1820
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas Nebraska Act
Who was the violent abolitionist that caused the Pottawatomie Massacre and eventually led the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Henry Clay
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Joseph Smith
What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?
That it was ok to own a slave
That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves
That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin
That slavery was wrong
When was the American Civil War
1941-1945
1775-1783
1861-1865
1846-1848
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Commander of the Union forces and top General in the North
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Commander of the Northern Virginia Army and top General in the South
To withdraw from means
sectionalism
to secede
to be a fugitive
to be a free state
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
To return escaped slaves to back to their owners
To return escaped slaves to freedom
To return southern states back to the Union
To return northern states back to the Union
Union strategy to win the Civil War. Plan was to use a naval blockade to block Southern shipping; cut Louisiana and Texas off from the rest of the South by controlling the Mississippi River, then divide the remaining states in half. Plan was to strangle the South's economy.
Restrictive Plan
Blitzkrieg
Python Plan
Anaconda Plan
1857 Supreme Court case that declared that people of African ancestry could never be citizens of the United States and, as such, had no right to sue in Federal Court. It also declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional as the Federal Government had no right to make decisions regarding slavery for the states.
Dred Scott Decision
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Emancipation Proclamation
Abolitionist Movement
1863 Presidential Proclamation that declared all slaves in States actively participating in rebellion against the United States to be free. This proclamation officially changed the expressed purpose of the Civil War from "A War to Preserve The Union" to "A War to End Slavery," adding a "moral" reason to fight the Civil War.
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
1863. Abraham Lincoln. One of the most famous documents in US History, it is the speech given by Abraham Lincoln dedicating the sight of the Battle of Gettysburg as a national cemetery.
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Lincoln Memorial
Gettysburg Address
Created Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory and allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. The North was outraged. The passage of this Act and the violence that followed have been thought to have hastened the Country into Civil War.
Missouri Compromise (of 1820)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law
Secession by the Southern States
The southern states leaned in on this idea: the rights belonging to the various states, especially with reference to the strict interpretation of the constitution, by which all rights not delegated by the Constitution to the federal government belong to the states.
Federalism
Central Government
Enumeration of Rights
States' Rights
Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican-American War
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Act Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
During the civil war, a devastating total war military campaign, led by union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along their way.
Sherman's March to Sea
Plan of Total Destruction
Union Victory March
Outcome of the Emancipation Proclamation
Which of the following was a major cause of early Confederate battle victories during the Civil War?
Industrial output
Foreign assistance
Immigrant population
Military leadership
Who led the slave revolts in Virginia?
Andrew Johnson
Nat Turner
William Loyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom
Who was the Union General that led the Peninsular Campaign and the Battle of Antietem? He was well known for being too cautious and was eventually fired by Lincoln.
Ullysses S Grant
George Gordon Meade
George B McClellan
Winfield Scott
Which state supplied the first troops to the Union army after Lincoln's call for volunteers in April 1861?
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
This crop became the dominant cash crop of much of the deep south in the 1800's:
Tobacco
Cotton
Indigo
Corn
Grant laid siege to this southern city for 9 months in 1864-1865, they even dug a tunnel which was eventually called the Battle of the Crater. This was the final major battle in the east:
Richmond
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Petersburg
How many soldiers died during the Civil War?
58,000
298,000
620,000
4.5 million
True or false: Most southerners owned slaves.
True
False
I don't know
What was the major problem with leading armies so large as were seen in the American Civil War? Click all that apply
Feeding them
Moving them
Keeping them clean and free from disease
Finding them
