2nd Grade CKLA Knowledge 9 Assessment (U.S. Civil War)

Are plantations large farms where crops are raised?

I commanded the Union Army.

Was the Confederacy the collection of northern states that didnot secede from the United States?

When a team loses a game, can we say they experienced a defeat?

I was president during the U.S. Civil War.

I wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation say thatslavery would be abolished in the Confederate states?

I surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox.

List two ways that the North and the South were different.

Did abolitionists want to keep slavery?

I helped wounded soldiers get the medical supplies and care they needed.

Did President Lincoln use many advisors to help him makedecisions during his presidency?

Was the Union made up of the northern states that did not secedefrom the United States?

I founded the American Red Cross.

Did the Yankees fight for the Union?

I was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Did the northern economy depend more on factories, and thesouthern economy depend more on growing crops?

Why did some southern states secede, or break away from, the UnitedStates?

Does a broken pencil have great value when you are trying to take atest?

Were the Rebels the Union soldiers?

What did the end of the U.S. Civil War mean for the North and the South andfor enslaved Africans?

Who was the most interesting person you learned about from the U.S. Civil War?

Was the issue of slavery one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War?

I was an enslaved African who escaped to Pennsylvania to gain my freedom.

I commanded the Confederate Army.

I was a spy for the Union Army because I knew the roads and the secret trailsaround Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Will a balloon pop if it continues to expand too far?

What caused the U.S. Civil War?

In slavery, is the enslaved person paid for his or her work?

Is a civil war a war between different groups of people or regionswithin one country?

How was the song “Follow the Drinking Gourd” important during the time ofthe U.S. Civil War?

What was the Underground Railroad?