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What was a major cause leading to the Civil War?
a) Territories
b) Colonialism
c) Sectionalism
d) Europe

How long did the Civil War last?
a) 4 years
b) 2 months
c) 5 years
d) 18 months

In what year did the Civil War begin?
a) 1891
b) 1865
c) 1860
d) 1861

What event led to South Carolina's secession?
a) March to the Sea
b) Lincoln's Election
c) Shots at Fort Sumter
d) Union army

What was the first major battle of the war?
a) Bull Run
b) Antietam
c) Gettysburg
d) Atlanta

Which word means to break away from?
a) secede
b) sectionalism
c) abolition
d) popular sovereignty

Which word refers to siding with others in your particular region?
a) secession
b) literacy
c) sectionalism
d) states' rights

Which was the first stage of the Anaconda Plan?
a) capture the Mississippi River
b) capture Richmond
c) burn Atlanta
d) blockade ports

What best describe's the South's strategy?
a) capture Union cities
b) defend
c) charge Union soliders
d) controls the Union's rivers

Who was the President of the Confederacy?
a) Jefferson Davis
b) Ulysses S. Grant
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) William Sherman

Which event happened at the Appomattox Courthouse?
a) surrender
b) Pickett's charge
c) first shots
d) election of Lincoln

What was the name for a secret route for escaping slaves?
a) Freedom Trail
b) Union Pathway
c) Underground Railroad
d) Tubman Route

What was the name given to the northern states?
a) Confederacy
b) Union
c) Slave states
d) Rebels

Where were most of the battle fought?
a) North
b) near the Mississippi River
c) western territories
d) south

Which river was important to the North and the South?
a) Ohio River
b) Mississippi River
c) Missouri River
d) Tennessee River

Where did the Confederate army hope to get supplies from?
a) Europe
b) Canada
c) the Union
d) Mexico

Who was responsible for burning parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina?
a) Davis
b) Sherman
c) Lincoln
d) Grant

Which was a way people spread information speaking out against slavery?
a) anti-slavery societies and magazines
b) newspapers and loud speakers
c) speeches and television
d) rumors and radio

Which is a way women's roles changed during and after the war?
a) they fought more with men
b) they owned more buildings
c) they could not have children
d) they took on more jobs

Who won the Civil War?
a) South
b) Confederacy
c) Union
d) Western territories

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