Civil War Test Review

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100

• The winner of the 1860 presidential election was:__________
• a. James Buchannan                         c. Stephen Douglas 
• b. John C. Breckenridge                    d. Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

200

• Lincoln was a member of the ________________ Party, which formed out of its opposition to slavery.

Republican

300

• The commanding general who will oversee the Union Army’s victory in the Civil War was:_________

Ulysses S. Grant

400

• The president of the Confederate States of America was:_________

Jefferson Davis

500

• The commanding general of Confederate troops during the Civil War was:__________

Robert E. Lee

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100

• The Civil War started with which battle:___________

The Battle of Fort Sumpter

200

• An important lesson learned from the First Battle of Bull Run was:__________

The Civil war was going to be a long conflict

300

The Battle of ____________ marked the bloodiest day in American history

Antietam

400

• After the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln was influenced to write this document:________

The Emancipation Proclamation

500

Where did Robert. E Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?

Appomattox

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100

Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth

200

Who becomes president after Abraham Lincoln?

Andrew Johnson

300

What amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?

The 13th 

400

When were the Southern States readmitted to the Union?

1870

500

What employment method of black southerners was seen as a return to slavery:________

Sharecropping

True or False

100

Slavery was mainly an invention of the U.S. and countries in Europe.

True or false

False

200

The Compromise of 1820, or the Missouri Compromise, allowed Missouri to be admitted as a free state while creating a new slave state called Maine.

True or False

False

300

The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the Confederate States.

True 

400

The Emancipation Proclamation stated that slavery would end on the condition that the U.S. won the Civil War.

True or False

True

500

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln mentions the birth of a “new freedom” for Americans. This “new freedom” refers to the freedom of enslaved people.

True or False

True

Vocab

100

The _________________________ was the line that separated the Southern States from the Northern States.

Mason-Dixon Line

200

As the general of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant put into place a policy of ________________, where civilians were seen as enemy combatants in addition to soldiers.

Total War