Civil War Study Guide

Questions
1. Who wanted the new states to be slave states?

2. Who led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?

3. The south's economy was based on ___________ and relied heavily on ________

4. What was the Underground Railroad?

5. Who was Harriet Tubman?

6. Who were the abolitionists?

7. Why was West Virginia created?

8. What was the first major battle in the Civil War?

9. What happened to John Brown?

10. What were the two sides called in the Civil War?

11. Who were General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant?

12. Who led a raid at Harper's Ferry, VA to try and start a slave rebellion?

13. Where and when did the Civil War end?

14. What was the capital of the Confederacy?

15. What battle did Confederate Stonewall Jackson play an important part in?

16. Who finally surrendered to end the Civil War?

17. What were the Monitor and Merrimack?

18. Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?

19. How did President Lincoln use the Navy?

Answers
1. The south (confederacy)
2. Nat Turner
3. plantations, slave labor
4. a secret route from the south to the north that escaped slaves took to become free
5. An African American woman who worked on the Underground Railroad
6. People who wanted to end slavery
7. The eastern part of Virginia wanted slavery and the western part wanted to abolish slavery
8. The Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA
9. He was captured and hung
10. Union (north) and Confederacy (south)
11. Lee = Commander of the Confederate troops
Grant = Commander of the Union troops
12. John Brown
13. Appomattox Court House in Virginia in April 1865 where General Lee (Confederacy) surrendered to General Grant (Union)
14. Richmond, VA
15. The Battle of Bull Run
16. Confederate Leader Robert E. Lee
17. Monitor (Union) & Merrimack (Confederate) were ships that fought in an important sea battle near Norfolk. The battle was a draw (no one won).
18. Abraham Lincoln
19. To block southern ports