Civil War Review

People/Places 1

100

This person was the most successful Northern general in the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

200

This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee

300

This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

400

Conflict before the start of the Civil War that was caused by popular sovereignty. 

Bleeding Kansas

500

Name the 5 border states (100 each)

Hint: Border states are Union states that allowed slavery

Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland

People/Places 2

100

This person wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which spoke about the cruelty of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

200

Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

John Brown

300

This person led the capture of Atlanta, Georgia, which gained Lincoln popular support to get reelected

William T. Sherman

400

Confederate offensive led by General Lee into Maryland which led to a Union victory that boosted Northern morale. 

Battle of Antietam (1862)

500

Name two ways that African Americans contributed to the war effort

African Americans: worked and fought for Union Army, fled their masters, stopped working on their plantations/sabotage

Events

100

How did the Civil War begin?

Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina

200

First major battle of the Civil War that ended in a Confederate victory

Battle of Bull Run

300

What was the main cause of the Civil War?

The tension between North and South over the issue of slavery

400

The two major Union victories known as the turning points of the war 

Gettysburg and Vicksburg

500

What were the only 2 battles fought in the North?

Battle of Antietam (1862) and Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

North/South

100

What is sectionalism?

Loyalty to a state or region, rather than to the country or nation

200

What labor force did the North depend on?

Immigrants

300

What are two advantages the North had over the South?

More industrialization, more people, more railroads, more money

400

What are two advantages that the South had over the North?

Better military leaders and its position of defending the homeland 

500

What were the North's motivations for going to war before the Emancipation Proclamation?

They wanted to preserve the union

Slavery

100

What cash crop did farmers primarily grow in the South? 

Cotton/Tobacco

200

Supreme Court Case decision that ruled Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

300

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

Law that required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves, even in free states.

400

What is the Emancipation Proclamation? What year was it?

Declaration from Abraham Lincoln stating that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free. (1863)

500

What were Lincoln's views on slavery before the war?

He viewed it as wrong, but he did not want to interfere with it the states it existed.