University:
Southern New Hampshire University
Course:
HIS 200 | Applied History
Academic year:

2022
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155

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1
Author:

Shyanne Johnson

Civil War Unit Study Guide Fill in the blank with the correct answer or answer the question in complete sentences: 1. How did The North mostly make a living? Industry, factories 2. How did the South make money for their economy? Farming, Cash crops 3. Who was the conductor of the Underground Railroad, and what was the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman; a system of safe houses that people let slaves stay in on their journey to freedom. 4. What was Lincoln against? Lincoln did not mind having slavery where it already existed, but he was against the spread of slavery into new states 5. What did Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln have in common? They were both Presidents and Commander-in-Chief of their armies. 6. What was the result of the election of 1860? Lincoln was elected as President, and the South seceded from the Union 7. What was the boundary between the North and the South called? The Mason-Dixon Line. 8. How many states seceded from the Union? 11 9. What event started the civil war? Battle of Fort Sumter 10. Who was the general of the Confederate Army? Who was the general of the Union Army? Confederate – Robert E. Lee; Union =Ulysses S. Grant 11. Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War? Gettysburg 12. At the beginning of the war which army was the weakest? Union 13. Who became President when the South seceded? Jefferson Davis 14. Why did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address? To honor all the soldiers who died fighting at the battle of Gettysburg 15. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Lincoln passed this act that freed all the slaves in the Confederate states.