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- 1. Multiple Choice
What was one advantage that the Confederate states had during the Civil War?
They received military support from Britain and France.
The largest weapons factories were located in the South.
They were more familiar with the places where most battles occured.
Most people in the Union supported the Confederacy's effort to form an independent country.
- 2. Multiple Choice
During the war, the economy of the Confederacy was:
unchanged because most of the battles took place on Northern soil.
severely strained by the Union blockade and the destruction of Southern land and property.
strengthened due to inflation.
strengthened because bounties were paid to army recruits.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What was one advantage the Union had over the Confederacy?
They had a greater number of troops.
They knew the terrain better than the Southern troops did.
They had stronger military leadership.
They had a strong fighting spirit.
- 4. Multiple Choice
By the end of the war, what percentage of the Union army was made up of African-American soldiers?
0%
1%
10%
20%
- 5. Multiple Choice
The city of Atlanta was burned:
as part of Sherman's total war strategy.
as the result of an accident caused by Union troops marching through.
by Confederate troops trying to stop Union forces from taking the city.
after a freak lightning strike set the docks on fire.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Gaining control of the Mississippi River enable the Union to:
surround the Confederacy
split the Confederacy into smaller parts
force the Confederacy to surrender
defeat the Confederates at Gettysburg
- 7. Multiple Choice
First major battle fought in the north (Maryland) resulting in over 23,000 casualties in the one-day, making it the bloodiest day in American history.
Gettysburg
siege of Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Bull Run
- 8. Multiple Choice
Considered a turning point of the war and was the last time that the Confederacy attempted to invade Union soil. Lee lost about one-third of his army.
Gettysburg
siege of Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Bull Run
- 9. Multiple Choice
The Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River and the Union had split the South in two.
Gettysburg
siege of Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Bull Run
- 10. Multiple Choice
Grant’s soldiers surrounded Lee’s army and forced the Confederates to surrender. The formal end of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
siege of Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Bull Run
- 11. Multiple Choice
The first major battle of the Civil War. After this battle, people realized that the war could be long and difficult.
Gettysburg
siege of Vicksburg
Antietam
Appomattox Court House
Bull Run
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a result of the Battle of Antietam?
The Confederate Army lost one of their best generals in Stonewall Jackson.
The Confederate Army gained foreign support from Britain and France.
Lincoln gained the victory he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Robert E. Lee never attempted to invade the North again.
- 13. Multiple Choice
grants full citizenship to all individuals born in the U.S.
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
- 14. Multiple Choice
prohibits the governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
- 15. Multiple Choice
freed enslaved Americans
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
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