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History II Review

States

Question: What two states were brought into the Union under the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
Answer: Missouri and Maine

Question: Which states were free of Missouri and Maine?
Answer: Missouri was slave
Maine was free

Question: Which state left the Union first?
Answer: South Carolina

Question: What was the capital city of the Confederacy?
Answer: Richmond, Virginia

Question: What are the names of the other six states that left the Union?
Answer: MIssissippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas

Battles

Question: Where was the first battle of the Civil War fought?
Answer: Fort Sumter

Question: What was the turning point of the Civil War?
Answer: the Battle of Gettysburg

Question: What battle put the MIssissippi River under Northern control?
Answer: the Battle of Vicksburg

Question: What was the name of the first Southern ironclad ship?
Answer: Merrimac

Question: What was the name of the first Northern ironclad ship?
Answer: Monitor

Union Army

Question: What was America often called during the Civil War period?
Answer: the Union

Question: Who was elected President in 1860?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: What were the Northern soldiers called?
Answer: Billy Yanks, Yank, or Yankees

Question: Which Union general marched his troops to the sea, destroying everything on the way?
Answer: General William T. Sherman

Question: How many states stayed with the Union?
Answer: twenty-two

Confederate

Question: What name did the Southern states choose for their new nation?
Answer: the Confederate States of America

Question: Who was the president of the confederate States of America?
Answer: Jefferson Davis

Question: What were the Southern soldiers called?
Answer: johnny Rebs or Rebels

Question: How many states made up the Confederacy?
Answer: eleven

Question: Who was the General of the Confederate army?
Answer: General Robert E. Lee

Other Facts

Question: Who was the command of the Union Army?
Answer: General Ulysses S. Grant

Question: Who shot and killed President Lincoln?
Answer: John Wilkes Booth

Question: Who became President after Lincoln's death?
Answer: Andrew Johnson

Question: Who invented the cotton gin?
Answer: Eli Whitney

Question: What two things did the Civil War make certain?
Answer: 1. no state could leave the Union
2. There would be no more slavery in the United States.