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What was the goal of the Union in the Civil War?
a) To end slavery
b) To preserve the Union
c) To keep slavery
d) To protect states' rights

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
a) John Wilkes Booth
b) Robert E Lee
c) Ambrose Burnside
d) George McClellan

What Confederate general surrendered at the end of the Civil War?
a) Robert E Lee
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) George Meade
d) William T Sherman

Where did the South surrender at the end of the Civil War?
a) Appomattox Courthouse
b) Richmond
c) Bull Run
d) Savannah

What general engaged in a march to the sea destroying all Southern resources in his path?
a) Robert E. Lee
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) William T Sherman
d) George Meade

What was the capital of the Union during the Civil War?
a) Washington D.C
b) Montgomery
c) New York City
d) Philadelphia

What is the term for destroying all resources that would be valuable to your enemy?
a) Anaconda Plan
b) Total Warfare
c) Shermaning
d) Carpetbagging

What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?
a) Atlanta
b) Richmond
c) Chattanooga
d) Montgomery

What city did Sherman capture that helped Lincoln win the Election of 1864?
a) Richmond
b) Atlanta
c) Chattanooga
d) Savannah

What was name of Grant's plan to surround the Confederates on all sides?
a) Anaconda Plan
b) Gettysburg Plan
c) Total Warfare
d) Grant's Plan

Why did it look like Lincoln might lose the Election of 1864?
a) The North was losing the war
b) People didn't care about slavery anymore
c) People were tired of the war
d) The South had won the war

Who was appointed the Union General after the Battle of Vicksburg and remained the Union General until the end of the war?
a) Robert E Lee
b) Ambrose Burnside
c) Ulysses S. Grant
d) Irvin McDowell

What was the message of Lincoln's Gettysburg address?
a) To boost morale and explain that the war was about freedom
b) To surrender after the Battle of Gettysburg
c) To get supplies from the British
d) To free all of the slaves

Which battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River?
a) Fredericksburg
b) Gettysburg
c) Vicksburg
d) Bull Run

Which battle convinced the British and French not to aide the Confederacy?
a) Gettysburg
b) Antietam
c) Fort Sumter
d) Vicksburg

Which battle was considered the turning point of the war because the South was becoming low on resources and morale?
a) Gettysburg
b) Vicksburg
c) Antietam
d) Bull Run

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation unsuccessful?
a) It wasn't
b) Lincoln didn't have the power to free slaves in the South
c) The Northern states had no slaves to free
d) The slaves rebelled

Which battle convinced Lincoln to create the Emancipation Proclamation?
a) Antietam
b) Gettysburg
c) Vicksburg
d) Fredericksburg

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
a) To free all slaves in the South
b) To inspire the American people
c) To sign a treaty between the North and South
d) To gain allies from the British

What was the goal of the Confederates during the Civil War?
a) Protect slavery
b) Preserve the Union
c) Establish states rights
d) Establish states rights in order to protect slavery

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