Civil War Study Guide
***** Make sure to study all other papers that were given to you during the Civil War Unit.*********
What are the four main reasons that divided the nation, and lead to the civil war?
a) ____constitutional __ b) _Economic___ c) _cultural _____ d) _slavery_____
1) What was the result of the Compromise of 1820? Missouri enters as a slave state; Maine enters as a
free state, a Temporary fix.
2) What was result of the 1850 Compromise? California was added to the Union as a free state.
Stronger fugitive slave laws. Southwest territories would decide about slavery (Utah and New
Mexico Territories are open to slavery). The result was a temporary fix with a more complex
balance.
3) What was the result of the Kansas- Nebraska Act? People in each state would decide the slavery
issue (“popular sovereignty”).Bloodshed in Kansas territory , fighting in Congress.
4) What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott Decision? The Supreme Court decides that
slaves are property, and property cannot be taken away from people, so you can’t ban slavery.
Also property can’t sue its owner.
5) What was the first state to secede from the Union? South Carolina
6) Who were the presidents of the Union and the Confederacy?
Union- Abraham Lincoln
Confederate – Jefferson Davis
7) What was the first battle of the civil war? Fort Sumter
8) What was the first major battle of the civil war? Manassas
9) What made “freeing the slaves” the new focus of the war? Emancipation Proclamation
10) 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?
The battle of Gettysburg
11) What battle divided the south via (by way of) the Mississippi River?
The battle of Vicksburg
12) As the Civil war continued, southern troops faced three problems, increasingly younger troops,
more poorly equipped and clothed troops.
13) Other than fighting, what was a major killer of troops during the civil war? Disease.
14) What are the five boarder states and what is so important about them? Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri (Don’t Make West Virginia Kick Monkeys)
15) Why is Clara Barton Famous? Clara Barton, a Civil War nurse, created the American Red Cross.
16) Please list the four important location and topography factors?
A. Battle locations were influenced by the struggle to capture capitals cities. Richmond was
Confederacy capital, and Washington D.C. was the Unions.
B. Control of the Mississippi- (Battle of Vicksburg)
C. Union Blockade of southern Ports- Savannah, Charleston, New Orleans
D. Control of the high ground (during battles). A great example of this is the Battle of Gettysburg.
17) Please name all the effects that the Civil War had
 Families and friends were often pitted against one another.
 Southern troops became increasingly younger and more poorly equipped and clothed.
 Much of the South was devastated at the end of the war (e.g. burning of Atlanta and
Richmond).
 Disease was a major killer
 Combat was brutal and often man-to man.
 Women were left to run businesses in the North and farms and plantations in the South.
 The collapse of the Confederacy made Confederate money worthless.
18) African Americans fought in both Confederate and Union armies.
19) The Confederacy often used slaves as naval crew members and soldiers.
20) The Union moved to enlist African American sailors early in the war.
21) African American soldiers were paid less than white soldiers.
22) African American soldiers were discriminated against and served in segregated units under the
command of white officers.
23) 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
d. Election of 1860
g. Compromise of 1850
e. Vicksburg
h. Firing on fort Sumter
f. Gettysburg
i. Dred Scott Case
j. Kansas- Nebraska
Act
k. Emancipation
Proclamation
L. Compromise of
1820
L
J
1
3
D
5
H
K
E/F
7
9
11
2
4
6
8
G
I
B
A
10
F/E
12
C
24) Identify the person and what they are known in regards to the Civil War.
Name: Frederick Douglass
Known for: Was a former slave who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist
Name: Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Known for: Was a skilled Confederate General from Virginia
Name: Jefferson Davis
Known for: President of the Confederate States of America
Name: Abraham Lincoln
What he is known for:
-was President of the United States
-Opposed the spread of slavery
-Issued the Emancipation Proclamation
-Determined to preserve the Union-by force if necessary
-Believed the United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states
-Wrote the Gettysburg Address that said the Civil War “was to preserve a
government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Name: Ulysses S Grant
Known for: General of the Union Army that defeated Robert E. Lee
Name: Robert E. Lee
Known for: Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
Was offered command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war but chose not
to fight against Virginia.
Opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force.
Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the end of the war and reunite as Americans
when some wanted to fight on
25) Please identify the maps below.
A. Missouri Compromise/ Compromise of 1820
B. Civil War
C. Compromise of 1850
D.Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854