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Civil
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Battles
Famous Abolitionists
Economy of North & South
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War Heroes
100
What were the names of the two Civil War iron-clad ships that fought in Virginia waters?
Monitor & Merrimack
100
____________was a slave who helped many other slaves escape before the Civil War.
Harriet Tubman
100
Before the Civil War the South relied on ___________ labor for its economy.
slave
100
The Northern and Southern states in the United States differed on the subject of __________.
slavery
100
_____________was president of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
200
Near which two cities did the only Virginia sea battle occur?
Norfolk & Hampton
200
_______________was an abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by stealing arms from the Arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
200
The _____________wanted the practice of slavery to end because its economy was not dependent on enlavened Africans.
Northern states
200
The western counties of Virginia wanted to become a free state that they named __________.
West Virginia
200
This Confederate General, ___________________, earned his nickname at the Battle of First Bull Run (Manassas).
Stonewall Jackson
300
The first major battle of the Civil War was the Battle of ____________.
Bull Run or Manassas
300
______________was a slave who tried to start a slave revolt, resulting in the death of sleeping plantation owners, their wives, and children.
Nat Turner
300
The cheap, dependable labor of enslavened Africans was needed in the _____________.
South
300
The states in the __________part of the United States wanted all new states to become slave states.
southern
300
______________led the Army of Northern Virginia to victory at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Robert E. Lee
400
General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia defeated the Union army at the Battle of ____________.
Fredericksburg
400
______________was the president of the United States who promised to abolish slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
400
Because the economy of the South was _________, slave labor was needed to work on cotton plantations.
agricultural
400
The _________states wanted all new states to become free states.
northern
400
_____________burned Richmond after winnng at battle there near the end of the war.
General Ulysses S. Grant
500
The Civil War ended at ____________.
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
500
Which of the following men was not an abolitionist?
Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson, Harriet Tubman, John Brown
500
Because the economy of the North was _______________, the labor of enslavened Africans was not needed.
industrialized
500
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused the Southern states to _________and form a new country, _____________________.
secede, Confederate States of America
500
______________surrendered to ___________ to end the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant