| Question | Answer |
| Focus on the interests of one's own region | Sectionalism
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To withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to | secede
| What year did the Civil War begin? | 1861
| What was the main dispute in the Civil War? | Slavery
| What was another name for the North & the South? | Union & Confederacy
| How many states were in the Union | 34
| How many states were in the Confederacy? | 11
| Choose the best definition of the term "border state." | slaves states that remained loyal to the United States
| What was one advantage held by the South during the war? | defending their own territory
| What was one advantage held by the North during the war? | greater industrial resources
| What was the South's main advantage during the war? | better leaders/generals
| Who had more men, weapons, and naval technology? | the Union
| A political party formed to prevent the spread of slavery | Republican Party
| AN Illinois lawyer who became the 16th President of the US by winning the election of 1860. | Abraham Lincoln
| What was the first state to secede? | South Carolina
| What was the name for the Union strategy during the war? | Anaconda Plan
| Who had a strategy that called for fighting a defensive war? | The South
| One part of the Union's strategy called for the capture of __________, the Confederacy's capital. | Richmond, Virginia
| Why did the Union want to take control of the Mississippi River? | to cut the Confederacy in half, stopping troops & supply movements
| What was the purpose of the Union's naval blockade? | to cut-off Southern trade & ruin the Confederate economy
| What effect did the Union blockade have on the South? | created a shortage of supplies
| Who had the advantage fighting to defend their homeland? | The Confederacy
| Who had the advantage in population - 22 million to 9 million? | The Union
| Who had the advantage in war resources - factories, railroads, workers, farmland, etc.? | The Union
| This battle was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. | Antietam
| This battle is considered the turning point in the war. | Gettysburg
| Final battle of Civil War - Lee surrenders to Grant. | Appomattox
| Grant won this battle, taking control of the Mississippi River. | Vicksburg
| Sherman's __________ tore up major rail lines, burned cities, & broke the South's will to fight. | March to the Sea
| What Southern general became famous in the battle of Bull Run? | Thomas Stonewall Jackson
| What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? | Freed the slaves in the South & allowed African-Americans to join the army
| What Amendment outlawed slavery? | 13th Amendment
| Lincoln said our country was conceived in liberty. What did he mean? | founded for freedom
| Lincoln said the soldiers had consecrated the land. What did he mean? | they made it a sacred site
| What was so special about "four score and seven years ago" in the Gettysburg Address? | the Declaration of Independence
| Lincoln believes that victory for the Union will result in. | a new birth of freedom and equality
| The strategy of burning railroads, factories, and farmland. | Total Warfare
| Who was the President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis
| Who was the President of the Union? | Abraham Lincoln
| Who was the General of the Army of Northern Virginia (the South)? | Robert E. Lee
| Who was the General of the Army of the Potomac (the North)? | Ulysses S. Grant
| How was Lincoln assassinated? | he was shot in the back of the head at a theater
| Less than a week after the end of the Civil War ended, Lincoln was assassinated by. | John Wilkes Booth
| Most common cause of death in the Civil War. | Disease/Infection
| Reason for such a high death count during the Civil War. | Old Tactics/New Weapons |
