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1. 
What was the purpose of General Sherman's March to the Sea?
A.
To capture Confederate president Jefferson Davis in Savannah, Georgia
B.
To fight a French fleet that had arrived in the United States to help the South
C.
To destroy everything in Georgia so that the south would lose hope that they could win
D.
To punish Southerners for the assassination of President Lincoln
2. 
What was the purpose of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859?
A.
To show he was angry and could be violent
B.
To arm the slaves against their owners
C.
To give the sourthern states weaponry
D.
To steal as much money as he could for the Union
3. 
Robert E. Lee was a general for the:
A.
Union army
B.
Confederate army
C.
British army
D.
Sumter army
4. 
One major victory for the Union that was considered the turning point of the Civil War occurred at:
A.
Atlanta Campaign
B.
Bull Run
C.
Gettysburg
D.
Chancellorsville
5. 
The main causes of the Civil War were
A.
States' rights and Feedman's Bureau
B.
States' rights and slavery
C.
Slavery and farming
D.
Factories and farming
6. 
Why did 11 southern states, led by South Carolina, secede from the U.S. right after Abraham Lincoln was elected president?
A.
He was a republican and they didn't like republicans
B.
He was a democrat and they didn't like democrats
C.
He was going to raise taxes on slavery
D.
The south feared he might try to end slavery
7. 
After the Civil War many things had changed in the U.S. Select each TRUE statement about how the U.S. changed after the Civil War.
A.
The North's economy did very well after the war because many factories and railroads had been created to help the war effort.
B.
The South's economy boomed after the war because it's cotton plantations could return to normal
C.
The former slave owners recognized how wrongly they had treated their former slaves and made it right by giving them jobs, land and fair wages after the war
D.
The South was destroyed because almost the entire war had been fought on their land and their businesses were ruined because they had lost their workers
8. 
What was the novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stoew to describe the horrors of slavery?
A.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
B.
Harriet Tubman's Life Story
C.
Abraham Lincoln's Views on Slavery
D.
The Biography of John Brown
9. 
The United States passed a law that made a higher tariff (tax) on cotton that was shipped to Europe. The south didn't like the new law and felt like they should get to decide the taxes on things that were sold by their state. The north felt the new tax was good, because the U.S. made more money and they didn't sell cotton like the southern states, so they weren't the ones getting taxed. This paragraph best describes which well known reason for the start of the Civil War?
A.
States' rights
B.
Slavery should still be allowed
C.
Economic unfairness
D.
Federalism
10. 
Choose the answer choice that places the following events in order from first to last: 1) The Union forces surrendered Fort Sumter; 2) Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 3) Appomattox Courthouse surrender; 4) Sherman's March to the Sea
A.
1, 2, 3, 4
B.
1, 3, 2, 4
C.
1, 2, 4, 3
D.
3, 4, 1, 2