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