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Civil War Study Guide Answer Key
1. Life was hard in the South on the home front because _____
Prices were high and there was not enough food.
2. Sherman’s strategy of total war included _______ Attacking
and destroying anything the enemy could use to continue
fighting.
3. After the Civil War, President Lincoln wanted ____ Defeated
Confederate states to set up new governments and rejoin the
Union quickly.
4. At the end of Reconstruction:
True or False: African Americans lost political power.
True or False: The president told federal troops to leave
the South.
True or False: Segregation was enforced.
5. Why did Jim Crow laws harm African Americans?
________________ They enforced the segregation of African
Americans from other Americans.
6. What are some advantages the North had during the Civil
War? ___ The North had more factories for making weapons
and supplies.
7. What took the place of slavery?
______Sharecropping______________________
8. The Union was also known as the ____The North and The
Yankees_________________________
9. Why did Southern states leave the Union _______ To protect
their own right to own slaves
10.
Who won the battle at Gettysburg? ______the
Union_______________________________
11. Before the Civil War, why did tension increase between
the northern and southern states? __ They disagreed about
whether or not slavery should continue
12.
Who was the president of the Union during the Civil
War? ___Abraham Lincoln__________
13.
Who led the Confederate troops at the Battle of Bull Run?
___Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson______
14.
What is the name of the famous speech Lincoln gave
during the Civil War? ____________Gettysburg
Address___________________________
15. What was the Underground Railroad? ______ a system of
escape trails that led slaves to freedom
16.
The battles of the Civil War were mostly fought
________in the South____________
17.
What Constitutional Amendment ended slavery in the
United States? _______13th
________
18.
Southern states passed ______Jim Crow
Laws__________ to keep African Americans separated from
other Americans.
19.
Why was Thomas Jackson’s nickname “Stonewall?”
_____________He never backed down in a
battle____________________________
20.
The South was also known as the ___________The
Confederacy and the Rebels_____________
21.
Who was the main general of the Union army?
________Ulysses S. Grant________
22.
What did Congress create to provide help to freed slaves?
___Freedmen’s Bureau_________
23. What does “states’ rights” mean? __ The idea that states,
not the federal government should decide matter that effect the
state
24. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the war?
__ It made the war a war to end slavery in the heart of the
South.
25.
Which constitutional amendment gave African Americans
the right to vote? _______15th _
26. What important event took place at Appomattox Court
House in 1865? ________ General Lee surrendered to General
Grant.
27.
The Civil War began when ____________Confederate
troops attacked Fort Sumter_______
28.
The 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments are known as the
_____The Voting Rights Amendments_____.
29.
What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?
___________to help enslaved people escape
slavery_______________
30.
What abolitionist fought slavery by raiding a U.S. Army
post at Harpers Ferry, Virginia and was hung for what he did?
_______John Brown___________________
31. Why did the Confederate army get weaker? ___ The
Confederate government had no money for supplies or more
soldiers.
32.
Which amendment declared that the states could not limit
the rights of citizens? ________14th
________________________
33.
What kind of conditions did soldiers in the Civil War
face? ____lived in tents; often didn’t have enough to eat; died
of diseases ______________________
34.
Who was the main general of the Confederate troops?
_____Robert E. Lee____
35.
The period when the south rejoined the Union is called
____Reconstruction_
36. What was the South like during Reconstruction? Many
people were poor and it was hard to earn a living.
37.
Sherman’s soldier’s march to Savannah became known as
____________Sherman’s March to the
Sea________________________
38. How did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin increase tensions between the North and the South? ___
The South thought the book gave a false picture of slavery.
The North felt a new sympathy for the slaves.
39.
Who was the new president of the southern states new
country, The Confederacy? ___________Jefferson
Davis___________________________
40.
Who led the army that captured the city of Atlanta,
Georgia? _____________William Tecumseh
Sherman___________________________________
41.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said
_____enslaved people where property and had no
rights___________________
42.
Why did John Brown attack the army post at Harper’s
Ferry? _____start a slave rebellion by arming
slaves____________________
43.
What allowed people in the North to see what was
happening during the Civil War? ____a new technology called
photography________________________
44.
What was the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin about ___the
cruelty of slavery_____________