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27 Week Test Review
Name_______________________________
Date _______________
Matching.
A
1. Missouri Compromise
C
2. Compromise of 1850
B
3. Kansas-Nebraska Act
A. Missouri was a slave state and Maine
was a free state.
B. People decided about the slavery issue.
C. California was a free state and the
Southwest territories would decide
about slavery.
Complete each sentence.
4. The North believed that the nation was a Union and could not be divided.
5. The South was afraid that the North would take control of Congress and began to
proclaim States Rights’ as self - protection.
6. Following Lincoln’s election, the southern states seceded from the union.
Matching.
F
7. President of the United States,
Opposed slavery, issued the
Emancipation Proclamation and
Wrote the Gettysburg Address
A. Ulysses S. Grant
B. Jefferson Davis
C. Robert E. Lee
A
D
8. General of the Union that defeated
Lee.
9. Former slave who escaped to the
north and became an abolitionist.
D. Frederick Douglass
E. Thomas Jackson
F. Abraham Lincoln
B
10. President of the Confederacy.
E
11. Skilled Confederate from VA
C
12. Leader of Army of Northern VA
27 Week Test Review
Name_______________________________
Date _______________
Describe each.
13. Fort Sumter – First shots of the Civil War. Confederate in South Carolina fired on a
Union fort beginning the Civil War.
14. Battle of Manassas – First major battle of the Civil War. Confederate Army defeats
the Union at Bull Run.
15. Battle of Vicksburg – Union victory. Union seized control of the Mississippi River
dividing the Confederacy in half.
16. Battle of Gettysburg – Turning point of the Civil War. Robert E. Lee invades the
north, but is defeated at the battle of Gettysburg.
17. Appomattox Courthouse – Lee surrenders to Grant in this town in 1865.
Describe where each of the following occurred.
18. Control of the high ground – Gettysburg or any major battle
19. Capture of capital cities – Confederacy: Richmond, VA/Union: Washington, D.C.
20. Control of Mississippi River - Vicksburg
21. Blockade of southern ports – Charleston, Atlanta, New Orleans
Fill in the blanks.
22. Clara Barton , a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross.
23. Southern troops became increasingly younger and more poorly clothed.
24. Women were left to run the businesses in the North and the farms and plantations in
the South.
25. The collapse of the Confederacy made Confederate money worthless
26. Robert Smalls was honored for his heroism and bravery.