Civil War Study Guide 2022

Why was the Battle of Gettysburg an important turning point in the war?

Who suggested the Missouri Compromise?

What month and year did Abraham Lincoln become President?

What reason did Dred Scott argue that he should be free?

What was one of Abraham Lincoln's major accomplishments?

Secret escape routes that lead enslaved people to free lands

Lincoln's plan to weaken the South was to give soldiers to them.

At the Battle of Antietam more soldiers died in 1 day than the rest of the war.

Short speech given by Abraham Lincoln to dedicate a new cemetary for Union soldiers

Someone who escapes from the law

What was an advantage of the Union army in fighting the Civil War?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved workers in what area?

Lincoln's plan to weaken the South was to block the Southern ports.

The Confederate Strategy for winning the war was to defend the South against Union invasion and make the war last.

To leave

A tax on imports

To free

The Union strategy for winning the war was to block the Southern ports and then invade it.

Lincoln's plan to weaken the South was to stop the South from getting weapons and supplies.

What month and year did Virginia secede from the Union?

What is a strategy?

What did the Supreme Court rule about enslaved people after the Dred Scott case?

Why was the North surprised at the outcome of the Battle of Bull Run?