Civil War

Question 1

What was the cause of the civil war?

Answer 1

The North and the South viewed slavery differently.

Question 2

What were the large farms in the South called?

Answer 2

plantations

Question 3

Why did many people in the south not want to abolish slavery.

Answer 3

They felt they needed slaves to help harvest crops.

Question 4

What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Answer 4

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 5

What was the group of people who helped slaves escape from the south to the north called?

Answer 5

The Underground Railroad

Question 6

Which star showed the slaves which way was north?

Answer 6

Polaris (North Star)

Question 7

How did the moss help the slaves find their way North?

Answer 7

Moss grows on the northern side of trees.

Question 8

Who spoke out against slavery spreading to the new states in 1860?

Answer 8

Abraham Lincoln

Question 9

Why did the southern states leave the union.

Answer 9

Lincoln was elected president and they thought he would stop slavery.

Question 10

What did the southern states name their new country?

Answer 10

The Confederate States of America

Question 11

Who was the President of the Confederacy?

Answer 11

Jefferson Davis

Question 12

Where did the Confederate soldiers attack in 1861?

Answer 12

Ft. Sumter

Question 13

What was the only way that Lincoln and others in the North thought they could save the Union?

Answer 13

Have a civil war.

Question 14

What were the soldiers from the north in the Civil War called?

Answer 14

Union Soldiers/Yankees

Question 15

What were the soldiers from the South called in the Civil War?

Answer 15

Confederate Soldiers/Rebels

Question 16

What did the confederate soldiers call the union soldiers?

Answer 16

Yankees

Question 17

What did the Union soldiers call the Confederate soldiers?

Answer 17

Rebels

Question 18

Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?

Answer 18

General Robert E. Lee

Question 19

Who was The President of the United States during the Civil War?

Answer 19

Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

What document did President Lincoln sign that said that the slaves in the south were free?

Answer 20

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 21

Who was the commander of the Confederate army?

Answer 21

Robert E. Lee

Question 22

Who was the commander of the Union army that replaced General George McClellan?

Answer 22

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 22

What military school did both General Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee attend?

Answer 22

West Point Academy

Question 23

What battle was a turning point in the war, ending General E. Lee’s invasion of the north?

Answer 23

The Battle of Gettysburg

Question 24

Why was President Lincoln angry after the Battle of Gettysburg?

Answer 24

The Union Army didn't pursue, or capture, Lee and his army after their defeat.

Question 25

Who was the first Union General of the Civil War?

Answer 25

General George McClellan

Question 26

Grant kept advancing and attacking until he gradually closed in on ___________, the capital of the Confederacy.

Answer 26

Richmond

Question 27

Which Union General was tearing through Georgia, tearing up railroad tracks, cutting off supplies to the Confederacy?

Answer 27

General Tecumseh Sherman

Question 28

What city in Georgia did General Sherman famously set fire to?

Answer 28

Atlanta

Question 29

What town did General Grant finally capture General Lee and his men and force Lee to surrender?

Answer 29

Appomattox Court House

Question 29

How long did the Civil War last?

Answer 29

4 years

Question 30

What famous female nurse in the Civil War did we study?

Answer 30

Clara Barton