Civil War Test

Question 1

What were some differences of the north?

Answer 1

• Involuntary servitude was not allowed
• Known for industry (weapons, factories)
• Majority of more people
• Republicans
• Federal Rights
• Wanted Slavery Abolished throughout the whole country

Question 2

What were some differences of the South?

Answer 2

• Allowed Involuntary servitude
• Very heavily agriculture (great temp. for crops, good soil, perfect environment)
• Lots of space
• democrats
• State Rights

Question 3

What was the difference between Federal Rights and State Rights?

Answer 3

Federal Rights are rights that are associated with the whole country. States rights are rights associated with individual states.

Question 4

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 4

• A compromise to keep power between free and slave states equal.
• Maine and Missouri were the states that would keep the power equal and balanced.
• Was deciding to be a confederate state or a union state

Question 5

What is Federalism?

Answer 5

The system between the National and state governments

Question 6

What does secede mean?

Answer 6

To separate

Question 7

Who was the first state to secede and why?

Answer 7

South Carolina was the first state to secede because they didn’t want slavery abolished and Lincoln was going to become President.

Question 8

Who becomes the president of the confederate states of America?

Answer 8

Jefferson Davis

Question 9

Where does most of the war take place?

Answer 9

In the south and also the North (Gettysburg PA)

Question 10

What were the North’s Advantages?

Answer 10

• More weapons/ammunition manufactured there
• More people (22 million)
• Railroads
• More Factories

Question 11

What were some of the South’s advantages?

Answer 11

• Supplies were close
• Home Field advantage (they know the land)
• More fight to protect their land
• Superior generals and soldiers
• England supplying weapons for cotton

Question 12

Why did Lincoln win the Presidency?

Answer 12

He won because of the electoral vote, not because of the popular vote

Question 13

What did the Confederacy Constitution do?

Answer 13

It claimed slavery legal

Question 14

Where did the civil war begin?

Answer 14

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Question 15

What was the Battle of Antietam?

Answer 15

• Happened in the southern states
• Bloodiest Battle DAY in history
• 23,000 men lost their lives that day.
• The Union won that battle

Question 16

What was the result of the Battle of Antietam?

Answer 16

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 17

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 17

• Declared that all slaves should be set free in the confederacy
• Allowed black men to serve in the union and the navy
• Changed focus of the war to slavery

Question 18

Why did the South ignore the Proclamation?

Answer 18

They had a different president and believed they didn’t have to obey because they’re a different “nation”

Question 19

What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 19

• One of the bloodies BATTLES of the war
• was 3 days
• Almost 60,000 men were killed or wounded
• The Union won
• was the turning point of the war
• Confederacy would never invade their territory again

Question 20

What are the beginning of the words of the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 20

“Four score and seven years ago”
- Referring to 1776, which was 87 years before 1863

Question 21

Who surrenders during the War?

Answer 21

General Lee of the confederate army surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army

Question 22

Where is Abraham Lincoln Assassinated?

Answer 22

Ford’s Theater

Question 23

Who assassinated him?

Answer 23

John Wilkes Booth

Question 24

When was Abe assassinated?

Answer 24

April 14, 1865