  1. What happened when the Southern states seceded?

  They broke their ties to the United States forming their own country, called the Confederate States of America.

  2. Who was president of the Confederacy?

  Jefferson Davis

  3. What was the Confederacy?

  The slaveholding states that seceded from the Union.

  4. What was Ulysses S. Grant’s major role in the Civil War?

  General appointed to lead the Union army to victory

  5. He was the leading general of the Confederacy.

  Robert E. Lee

  6. What is the name of the fort where the Civil War began?

  Fort Sumter

  7. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that

  enslaved persons in the Confederate states would be freed.

  8. What was the first battle of the Civil War fought on Northern soil?

  The Battle of Bull Run

  9. This was where the surrender of the Civil War was signed.

  Appomattox Court House

  10. What body of water is the Siege of Vicksburg near?  Why was the battle important to the outcome of the war?

  The Mississippi River  Whoever won the battle controlled the river

  11. Abraham Lincoln

  President of the United states during the Civil War  Gave the Gettysburg Address  Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

  12. John Wilkes Booth

  Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

  13. Appomattox Court House

  Where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War

  14. Reconstruction effected Texas how?

  Texas had to write a new constitution in order to rejoin the Union

  15. The Freedman’s Bureau gave former slaves what advantage?

  Economic independence

  16. How did the economy of Texas change after the Civil War?

  It became a sharecropping based economy

  17. How were former slaves affected by the new Texas constitutions written after the Civil War?

  It gave the male former slaves the right to vote.

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