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CIVIL WAR TEST – STUDY GUIDE
Name: ____________________________
1. Define: Abolition :
2. Define: Emancipation :
3. Define: Nullification :
4. Define: Popular Sovereignty :
5. Define: Secession :
6. Define: Underground Railroad :
7. Explain the greatest difference between the North and the South.
8. Name the most important crop grown and sold in the South during the 1840s – 1860s.
9. Why did countries like England consider recognizing the Confederates as a separate country?
10. Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which state was admitted to the Union as a slave state?
11. How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to free the slaves?
12. Approximately how many slaves did Tubman save?
13. Name the escaped slave who spent his life speaking and writing for the abolition movement.
14. Name the abolitionist whose famous raid helped cause the Civil War.
15. Name the military genius and general who led the Confederate troops. His greatest defeat was at the Battle of
Gettysburg. He later became president of Washington College in Virginia.
16. Who was the Union general who fought against Robert E. Lee in a series of battles in Virginia?
17. Under the Compromise of 1850, which state was admitted to the Union as a free state?
18. Name the method in which voters would determine whether slavery would be banned or permitted under the
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
19. Fighting between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces in Kansas earned the state what nickname?
20. Answer the following questions regarding the Dred Scott case. According to the Court, were African Americans
citizens? Was the Missouri Compromise constitutional? Did whites have the Constitutional right to own slaves?
21. Name the town where John Brown attacked the federal arsenal.
22. What did the South do shortly after Lincoln was elected President in 1860?
23. In what speech did Lincoln state: “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may
have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
24. In what speech did Lincoln state: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth to this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
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25. During which debates did Lincoln argue: “‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this nation
cannot endure half slave and half free.”
26. In what document did Lincoln state: “All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the
people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
27. In 1861, who became president of the Confederate States of America?
28. The capital of the Confederate States of America was located in what city?
29. Before sunrise on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on what fort?
30. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
31. What was Lincoln’s primary objective during the Civil War?
32. Describe the results of the Battle of Antietam.
33. Answer the following questions about the Emancipation Proclamation. Who issued it? 2) On what date did it take
effect? What Constitutional amendment did it lead to?
34. Name one of first African American fighting regiments to fight in the Civil War.
35. Answer the following questions about the Battle of Gettysburg. How many days did the battle last?
Approximately how many casualties were there?
36. What effect did Sherman’s march through Georgia have on the Union?
37. Why was the Battle of Gettysburg important?
38. Where did Robert E. Lee officially surrender to U.S. Grant?
39. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
40. Summarize the Thirteenth Amendment. What does it outlaw?
41. Summarize the Fourteenth Amendment. What does it guarantee?
42. Summarize the Fifteenth Amendment. What does it guarantee?
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