Civil War Study Guide

Test Format

15 - Multiple Choice

6 – Ordering

5 – Labeling

4 – Matching

2 of 4 – Short Response

Important Terms, People, Events

Abraham Lincoln

abolitionist

Ulysses S. Grant

Missouri Compromise

Election of 1860

Candidates

Harriet Tubman

Civil War

secede

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Slavery

Expansion

Resistance

Underground Railroad

Confederacy

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Petersburg

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Emancipation Proclamation

Capitals

Confederate

Union

Ordering – Be able to put these events in order

Abraham Lincoln’s Election

Fort Sumter

Appomattox Court House

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

South Carolina Secedes

Gettysburg Address

Battle of Gettysburg

First Battle of Bull Run

Battle of Shiloh

Labeling – Tell which side these states were on

South Carolina

Georgia

Mississippi

New York

Rhode Island

Maine

Missouri

Kentucky

Massachusetts