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Civil War Test
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The causes of the Civil War include | salvery and sectionalism |
| Why was the south opposed to high tariffs? | Only helped Northern industry it hurt the South's trade with Great Britain. |
| U.S House of Representatives is based on population. Why did the South have lower representation? | The South had a lower population |
| The_________had more farms and more slaves to work on plantations. | South |
| 3 events that led to the Civil War was | The Kansas-Nebraska Act, The Missouri Compromise, and Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| An Abolitionist who was executed for his raid that freed slaves was | John Brown |
| who was the President of the Confederate States? | Jefferson Davis |
| The general who led the Confederate army was | Robert E Lee |
| The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were both meant to deal with the issue of __________________ | slavery in new territories |
| The Union (north) wanted the Untied Sates to remain_________________ | united |
| The North population was larger and created an _________over the South during the war. | advantage |
| The North used naval blockades as a _____________to defeat the South. | strategy |
| General Sherman march to the sea and burn Atlanta wee examples of the ___________strategies | Total war |
| The first shots of the Civil War were fired in South Caroline at Fort____________ | Sumpter |
| Lincoln made a statement during the war freeing the slaves called the | Emancipation Proclamtion |
| Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a major turning point for the North during the Civil War? | There were many causalities on both side but the South lost so many men and supplies they could not recover |
| when Lincoln was elected President in 1860, the South decided to leave the Union or ______________ | secede |