Civil War Study Guide
***** Make sure to study all other papers that were given to you during the Civil War Unit. *********
1) What are the four main reasons that divided the nation, and lead to the civil war?
a) ________________
c) ________________
b) ________________
d) ________________
2) What was the result of the Compromise of 1820?
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3) What was result of the 1850 Compromise?
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4) What was the result of the Kansas- Nebraska Act?
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5) What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott Decision?
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6) What was the first state to secede from the Union? _______________________________________
7) Who were the presidents of the Union and the Confederacy?
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8) What was the first battle of the civil war? ______________________________________________
9) What was the first major battle of the civil war? _________________________________________
10) What made “freeing the slaves” the new focus of the war? _________________________________
11) Before this battle the North (Union) looked as If they may lose the war to the South (Confederacy). What
was the turning point of the Civil War?
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12) What battle divided the south via (by way of) the Mississippi River?
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13) As the Civil war continued, southern troops faced three problems, increasingly ____________________
troops, more poorly ____________________ and clothed troops.
14) Other than fighting, what was a major killer of troops during the civil war?
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15) List the five Border States? What is a Border State?
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16) Why is Clara Barton Famous?
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17) Please list the four important location and topography factors?
A) ____________________________________________________________________________________
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B) ____________________________________________________________________________________
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C) ____________________________________________________________________________________
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D) ____________________________________________________________________________________
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18) Please name all the effects that the Civil War had.
 Families and friends were often _________________________________________________________.
 Southern troops became increasingly ____________________ and more poorly
____________________ and ____________________.
 Much of the South was devastated at the end of the war (e.g. burning of ____________________ and
____________________).
 ____________________ was a major ____________________.
 ____________________ was brutal and often man-to man.
 ___________________were left to run businesses in the North and farms and plantations in the South.
 The collapse of the Confederacy made Confederate ____________________ worthless.
19) African Americans fought in both ____________________ and ____________________ armies.
20) The Confederacy often used slaves as ____________________ members and ____________________.
21) The Union moved to enlist African American ____________________ early in the war.
22) African American soldiers were paid less than ____________________ soldiers.
23) African American soldiers were discriminated against and served in ____________________ units under
the command of ____________________ officers.
24) Please place these events in chronological order. Place the letter above or below the number that
corresponds to the event.
a. Manassas/ Bull
Run
b. South Carolina
Seceded
c. Appomattox
Court House
3
1
2
d. Election of 1860
g. Compromise of 1850
e. Vicksburg
h. Firing on fort
Sumter
i. Dred Scott Case
f. Gettysburg
5
4
9
7
6
8
j. Kansas- Nebraska
Act
k. Emancipation
Proclamation
l. Compromise of
1820
11
10
12
25) Identify the person and what they are known for in regards to the Civil War.
Name: Frederick Douglass
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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Name: Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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Name: Jefferson Davis
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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Name: Abraham Lincoln
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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Name: Ulysses S. Grant
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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Name: Robert E. Lee
What he is known for: ___________________________________________________
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25) Please identify the significance of each map below.
A. _________________________________
B. ______________________________
C. ______________________________________
D. ________________________________________