Question | Answer |
Who were the presidential candidates of the election of 1860? | Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckinridge |
Southerners justified secession with the theory of _________. | states' rights |
In 1860 Kentucky and West Virginia were both ______________. | Union slave states. |
Which presidential candidate did not appear on the ballot of most Southern states during the election of 1860? | Abraham Lincoln |
With other workers of the same skills, workers formed | trade unions |
What was "king" and the main topic of conversation in the South? | cotton |
Most enslaved people on plantations worked as | field hands |
Most factory workers lived in | slums |
What group of Southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled? | plantation owners |
The main topic of the Lincoln–Douglas debates was | slavery |
What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more? | Dred Scott decision |
What battle was named after a small church? | Shiloh |
The bloodiest day of the entire Civil War was the Battle of | Antietam |
William Tecumseh Sherman's "march to the sea" headed toward | Savannah, Georgia |
What guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed? | habeas corpus |
What battle began when the Union cavalry surprised the Rebel infantry raiding the town for shoes? | Gettysburg |
The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to | reunite the country |
Confederate ships that broke through the North's line of defense were called | blockade runners |
What April battle lasted only two days, but included some of the most bloody fighting of the war? | Shiloh |
Clara Barton worked with wounded soldiers and later founded the | American Red Cross |
Appomattox Court House is famous because it is the site of | General Robert E. Lee's surrender |
The doctrine of states’ rights helped to bring on the Civil War by asserting that states have a right to ____. | secede |
General Ulysses S. Grant began his command of Civil War Union forces in what part of the country? | along the rivers of the midwest |
What state was so divided over secession that it split into two states in the early 1860s? | Virginia |
Disagreement over new states being free states or slave states was a cause of the | Civil War |
Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln signed a document that freed all slaves in the south. This document is called the | Emancipation Proclamation |
Who was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War? | Jefferson Davis |
At the beginning of the Civil War, whose main goal was to bring the Southern states back into the Union? | the North |
At the beginning of the Civil War, whose main goal was to be recognized as an independent nation? | the South |
Who served in regiments separate from white regiments in the Union Army? | African American soldiers |
What 1865 constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States? | thirteenth amendment |
Lincoln was unable to carry out his Reconstruction plan because he | was assassinated |
Which Civil War general became president in 1869? | Ulysses S. Grant |
The Southern economy after the Civil War was mainly based on | agriculture |
With whom did senator Stephen A. Douglas debate the issue of slavery in the Senate race of 1858? | Abraham Lincoln of Illinois |
The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was | South Carolina |
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired? | Fort Sumter |
The first major battle of the Civil War was called the | Battle of Bull Run |
The capital city of the Confederacy was | Richmond, Virginia |
In what role did thousands of women serve during the Civil War? | nurse |
What 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen? | fifteenth amendment |
The phrase "separate but equal" refers to the rights of | African Americans and whites |