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Civil War3
8th grade SS TAKS Review
Question | Answer |
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The 1st battle of the Civil War | What is Fort Sumter? |
Siege that split the south in half | What is the Siege of Vicksburg? |
The bloodiest battle in all of American history | What is the Battle of Antietam? |
Battle which secured almost all of the Mississippi River for the Union | What is the Battle of New Orleans? |
Naval duel in which neither ship could defeat the other | What is the Monitor vs. Merrimack? |
President during the Civil War | Who was Abraham Lincoln? |
Commander of the Union army | Who was Ulysses S. Grant? |
President of the Confederacy | Who was Jefferson Davis? |
Commander of the Confederate army | Who was Robert E. Lee? |
Black person who urged Lincoln to make the Civil War a war against slavery | Who was Frederick Douglass? |
Lincoln’s speech commemorating the people who died at Gettysburg | What is the Gettysburg Address? |
Union general who was almost fired for the Union deaths in battle | Who was General Ulysses S. Grant? |
The main source of income for the Confederacy | What is cotton? |
Plan that called for a blockade of the South | What was the Anaconda Plan? |
The idea that caused the South to secede | What is States’ Rights? |
December 20 1860 | When did South Carolina secede? |
1861-1865 | When was the Civil War? |
April 9 1865 | When did Lee surrender? |
Speech on November 19 1863 | When did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address? |
Battle on July 4 1863 | When was the Siege of Vicksburg? |
Freed some slaves and was considered to be a military action | What is the Emancipation Proclamation? |
Laws in 1862 and 1863 that required people to serve in the military | What were the Draft Laws? |
Banned slavery everywhere in the U.S. | What is the 13th Amendment? |
1861 tax on workers’ earnings | What is income tax? |
Where Lee surrendered to Grant | What is Appomattox Court House? |