USI Chapter 8 Assessment

What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Firing on Fort Sumter

What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?

• Southern leaders were not allowed to hold a government office

• All new states added to the Union had to be free of slavery

• All enslaved African Americans in states not controlled by the Union were free

Which of the following TWO states were part of the Union forces at the end of the Civil War?

• Virginia

• Ohio

• Alabama

• West Virginia

What did the Gettysburg Address state was the purpose of the Civil War?

• To preserve a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people"

• To free all enslaved African Americans in the South

• To show the supreme power of the federal government over states' rights

In which battle did the North gain control of the Mississippi River?

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Vicksburg

During the Civil War, what name was given to the states shown in light grey on this map?

• Confederate states

• Border states

• Union states

What important event occurred at Appomattox Court House in 1865?

• The first Confederate victory of the Civil War was won

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson received his nickname at this battle

• Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War

Which of the following slave states did NOT secede from the Union?

• Ohio

• Alabama

• Kentucky

• Virginia

Ulysses S. Grant was the

• general of the Union army that defeated Lee

• skilled Southern general who led Confederate troops at the Battle of Bull Run

• president of the United States during the Civil War

Who created the American Red Cross?

• Clara Barton

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln