Game 7: Civil War

Mrs. Seger and Mrs. Castleberry

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  1. The economy in the northern part of the United States was ________ and depended on manufacturing.
  2. Your answer:
    agricultural
    trading
    industrialized


  3. The economy in the southern part if the United States was agricultural and relied on ______.
  4. Your answer:
    slave labor
    water power
    factories


  5. _____ states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be “free states.”
  6. Your answer:
    Western
    Southern
    Northern


  7. Southern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory to be ______.
  8. Your answer:
    free states
    slave states
    United States


  9. _____ led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia in 1831.
  10. Your answer:
    Harriet Tubman
    Nat Turner
    John Brown


  11. ________ campaigned or worked to get the United States government to end slavery.
  12. Your answer:
    Politicians
    Abolitionists
    Crusaders


  13. _____ established a secret route that runaway slaves took to free states or to Canada.
  14. Your answer:
    Harriet Tubman
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Nat Turner


  15. The secret route that runaway slaves used became known as the ________.
  16. Your answer:
    Underground Railroad
    Freedom Trail
    Turner Route


  17. John Brown led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at _____, Virginia in 1859.
  18. Your answer:
    Williamsburg
    Harpers Ferry
    Richmond


  19. John Brown wanted to arm the ____ and start a war. He was stopped when he was captured by United States Marine troops.
  20. Your answer:
    farmers
    slaves
    factory workers


  21. After ______ became President of the United States in 1860, seven southern states seceded from the Union.
  22. Your answer:
    Abraham Lincoln
    James Monroe
    John Adams


  23. Virginia seceded from the Union along with other southern states to form the ______.
  24. Your answer:
    Confederate States of America
    United States of the Confederacy
    United States of the South


  25. The capital of the Confederacy was ____.
  26. Your answer:
    Washington
    Richmond
    Williamsburg


  27. Conflicts grew between the _____ counties of Virginia that relied on slavery and _____ counties that favored the abolition of slavery.
  28. Your answer:
    northern, western
    eastern, western
    northern, southern


  29. Virginians were divided about secession from the Union which led to the formation of ____.
  30. Your answer:
    Tennessee
    West Virginia
    Kentucky


  31. What was NOT an issue during the Civil War?
  32. Your answer:
    Taxation
    Slavery
    States' rights


  33. A civil war is a war between _________________.
  34. Your answer:
    people of the same race
    people of the same country
    two different countries


  35. The Civil War began in ______.
  36. Your answer:
    1865
    1861
    1860


  37. The first Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) was the first major battle of the Civil War. _______ played a major role in this battle.
  38. Your answer:
    Andrew Jackson
    John Brown
    Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson


  39. Who was President of the United States of America during the Civil War?
  40. Your answer:
    Robert E. Lee
    Abraham Lincoln
    Jefferson Davis


  41. The Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia who defeated Union troops in a battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1862 was General ________.
  42. Your answer:
    Ulysses S. Grant
    Stonewall Jackson
    Robert E. Lee


  43. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which ______ all slaves living in those parts of the South that were fighting against the Union.
  44. Your answer:
    welcomed
    freed
    identified


  45. ________ accepted command of the Confederate Army.
  46. Your answer:
    Jefferson Davis
    Robert E. Lee
    Ulysses S. Grant


  47. President Lincoln used the Union navy to blockade southern ports. An important sea battle between two iron-clad ships, the ____ (Union) and the _____ (Confederate) took place in waters near Hampton and Norfolk.
  48. Your answer:
    Monitor, Manassas
    Monitor, Merrimack
    Saratoga, Merrimack


  49. The two ironclads battled for more than three hours, the battle was fought to a ______.
  50. Your answer:
    sinking
    draw
    victory


  51. The Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865 at _______.
  52. Your answer:
    The White House
    The Capitol building in Richmond
    Appomattox Court House


  53. Who won the Civil War?
  54. Your answer:
    The North (Union)
    the "freed slaves"
    The South (Confederacy)


  55. When did the Civil War end?
  56. Your answer:
    April, 1864
    April, 1863
    April, 1865



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