Civil War (Quizziz)
How many lives were lost in Civil War
600,000
The President during the Civil War was ______________________.
Abraham Lincoln
Where did the south finally surrender unconditionally?
Appomattox
When did the Confederate army surrender?
April 9, 1865
Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.
Border States
Which side won all the early battles of the Civil War?
Confederacy
Which of the following is a reason that the South felt their states' rights had been violated?
Congress passed tariffs that raised the price of imported goods and hurt the South's economy.
This caused widespread fear in the South about the future of slavery
Election of Abraham Lincoln
What event freed the slaves?
Emancipation Proclamation
The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?
Fort Sumter
How did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry influence the Civil War?
It led many southerners to believe that it would take bloodshed to protect the South's way of life
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the leading general of the Confederate army?
Lee
Where is the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
The belief that states had rights and powers within the Union.
States' Rights
Which battle allowed the Union Army to cut the supply routes to Confederate troops and destroy the industrial railroad center of the South?
The Atlanta Campaign
Which of the following conclusions were drawn by both the North and South after the Battle of Bull Run?
The soldiers needed training and victory would be difficult
Who was the Union general in the West that gained the only victories for the Union?
Ulysses S. Grant
The name given to the North was what?
Union
The South were fighting a(n)
defensive war
Lincoln ends his speech by stating "that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from earth." What idea is he describing?
democracy
What was Sherman's strategy of total war?
destroying all civilian and military resources
According to how the Emancipation Proclamation was written it ...
freed the slaves in the Confederate States that were still in a state of rebellion against the Union.
legal order that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court
habeas corpus
Which of the following was an advantage that the Confederacy had?
home field advantage
Which of the following was an advantage that the Union had?
more troops
A technological advancement during the Civil War which made the firing of guns much more accurate was
rifling the barrels
Which word means to leave or become unassociated with?
secede
The South's system of forced labor force in which people were treated as property
slavery
In Lincoln's (first) Inaugural speech in 1861, he tried to convince the South the government would not do WHAT
start a war
The two major causes of the Civil War were slavery and.....
states' rights
What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?
to preserve the Union
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?
to remind Americans of why the Civil War was being fought