Chapter 4.
Study Guide
Sherry Woods,
Caywood Elementary School
Lexington, TN
Northerners fought in the Civil War
because they thought it was wrong
for the Southern states to leave the
The four border states were:

They were considered
border states because they
didn’t leave the Union, but
some of them owned
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Some people in the border states
fought for the North while others
fought for the __________.

People in the border states remained
citizens of the __________
________ instead of joining the
Confederacy.
What is the name of the system
developed in the South to keep the
plantations operating after slavery
ended.
The organization set up
to help former slaves was
the

General Sherman’s march to the sea
was an effort to destroy everything
in _______________ that could help
the South in the war.
When the Union army
captured
______________________,
the south was cut in two at
the Mississippi River.

The most successful Union
general during the Civil War.

Which battle in 1862 convinced
President Lincoln to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation?
Africans formed every kind of
regiment except cavalry in the Civil
War.
True or False
Reconstruction ended when the last
____________________ troops left
the south in 1877.
One state split in two over the
slavery issue and became the states
of ___________ and ________
______________.
Who took over factory, business,
and farm jobs when the men from
the North and the South went to
war?
Why were most Southerners willing
to fight in the Civil War?

_______________________ was led
by President Johnson as an effort to
bring the country back together after
the Civil War.
People who were not in the military
are known as
___________________. (mostly
women, old men, and children)
The name insultingly given to
Southerners who supported the
government after the Civil War.
What is the practice of separating
people in schools, churches, and
other public places known as?
What is the murder of a
political leader called?

Who assassinated President
Abraham Lincoln?

What was the name of the
famous speech given at
Gettysburg?
Which amendment ended
slavery?
Which amendment gave ALL people
the right to vote regardless of race?
Which amendment gave citizenship
to all people born in the United
States including former slaves?

Once Reconstruction ended, white
southerners again took political
control and passed the ________
________ to limit the rights of
former slaves.
Some southern states elected
_____________ Americans to
Congress after the war ended.
Southern states were allowed to
hold ______________, and choose
their own state leaders after the
Civil War was over.
The Confederate leader who chose
not to lead the north because his
home state, Virginia had joined the
Confederacy.

After President Abraham Lincoln was
killed, his Vice President,
________________________
became the seventeenth President of
the United States.

Which Confederate state was the first
to rejoin the Union after the Civil War
ended?