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Civil War Study Guide: Using your guided notes and WINK Workbook, please answer the following
questions.
SOL 9a
1. This region was primarily urban where people lived in big towns/cities and held jobs: NORTH
2. This region was primarily agricultural where people lived on farms/plantations: SOUTH
3. What is another word for a tax or levy that government places on goods? TARIFF
4. Did tariffs INCREASE or DECREASE the price of manufactured goods? INCREASE
5. Which region opposed tariffs being placed on goods? SOUTH
6. Which region approved tariffs being placed on goods? NORTH
7. Why were tariffs good for Northern factories and industries? IT ELIMINATED FOREIGN
COMPETITION
8. What concerned Southerners about tariffs being placed on manufactured goods? THEY WERE
AFRAID THAT ENGLAND WOULD STOP BUYING THEIR COTTON
9. Prior to the Civil War, where was most of the nation’s industrialization happening? NORTH
10. The equipment made in the North had an impact on Southern society: TRUE
11. What are the three major differences that existed between the North and South and led to the Civil
War? 1) CONSTITUTIONAL 2) CULTURAL 3) ECONOMIC
12. Which one major issue increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War? SLAVERY
SOL 9b
13. Which region believed in “States Rights” and wanted increased state power? SOUTH
14. Which region believed the Federal government in Washington D.C. should be supreme? NORTH
15. What did Southerners believe that they could do if they did not like a national law? THEY
COULD DECLARE IT ILLEGAL
16. From which viewpoint did Northerners look at the slavery issue? MORAL
17. What did Southerners believe could possibly destroy their economy? THE ABOLITION OF
SLAVERY
18. According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which state entered as a free state? MAINE
19. According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which state entered as a slave state? MISSOURI
20. According to the Compromise of 1850, which state entered as a free state? CALIFORNIA
21. How was it determined if the Southwest territories would be free states or slave states according to
the Compromise of 1850? THEY WOULD VOTE ON THE ISSUE
22. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for people to have “popular sovereignty” regarding the slavery
issue. What does this mean? THEY WERE ALLOWED TO DECIDE THE SLAVERY ISSUE
ON THEIR OWN BY VOTING
23. What event caused Southern States to secede from the union? THE ELECTION OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
24. Who attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina? CONFEDERATES
25. Why do you think the South was so concerned about the North taking over Congress? THEY
WOULD MAKE LAWS THAT WOULD ABOLISH SLAVERY
26. Who believed that the United States was a union that could not be broken? NORTH
SOL 9c
27. What do we call the northernmost slave states that remained in the Union? BORDER STATES
28. List the four border states: MISSOURI, DELAWARE, KENTUCKY, AND MARYLAND
SOL 9d
29. Who was President of the United States during the Civil War? ABRAHAM LINCOLN
30. Who was President of the Confederate States of American? JEFFERSON DAVIS
31. Who was leader of the Union Army? ULYSSES S. GRANT
32. Which document said that the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the
people, and for the people”? GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
33. What state was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson from? VIRGINIA
34. Which President believed that the Union should be held together, even by force? LINCOLN
35. Why did Robert E. Lee decline the opportunity to lead the Union Army? HE WOULD NOT
FIGHT AGAINST VIRGINIA
36. Who was the leader of the Northern Army of Virginia? LEE
37. Who was a famous abolitionist of the Civil War period? FREDERICK DOUGLASS
38. Who convinced Southerners to lay down their arms and surrender? LEE
SOL 9e
39. Where did the Civil War officially begin? FORT SUMTER, SC
40. Which battle is known as the first major battle of the Civil War? THE FIRST BATTLE OF
MANASSAS (FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN)
41. Which document freed the slaves? THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
42. What were two big reasons that the Battle of Vicksburg was so important? IT DIVIDED THE
SOUTH AND GAVE THE UNION CONTROL OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
43. This battle was the turning point of the war: GETTYSBURG
44. Whose army was repelled following Gettysburg? LEE’S
45. Where did Lee surrender to Grant in 1865? APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE
46. List the three ports that the Union blockaded: SAVANNAH, NEW ORLENS, AND
CHARLESTON
47. What was the capital of the Confederacy? RICHMOND .
48. What was the capital of the Union? WASHINGTON D.C.
49. Which battle was fought to control the high ground? GETTYSBURG
SOL 9f
50. These troops were often young and poorly equipped/clothed: SOUTH
51. This Civil War nurse founded the American Red Cross: CLARA BARTON
52. While men were fighting the war, who was left to run businesses, plantations, and farms?
WOMEN
53. During the Civil War, women ran businesses in the: NORTH
54. During the Civil War, women ran plantations/farms in the: SOUTH
55. African American soldiers were paid less than white soldiers. TRUE
56. This African-American soldier was a national hero during the Civil War and later became a South
Carolina Congressman: ROBERT SMALLS
57. African-Americans fought for the: BOTH ARMIES