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

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

4.   2. Who was president of the Confederacy?

5.   Jefferson Davis

6.   3. What was the Confederacy?

7.   The slaveholding states that seceded from the Union.

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

9.   General appointed to lead the Union army to victory

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

11.   Robert E. Lee

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

13.   Fort Sumter

14.   7. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that

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

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

17.   The Battle of Bull Run

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

19.   Appomattox Court House

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

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

22.   11. Abraham Lincoln

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

24.   12. John Wilkes Booth

25.   Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

26.   13. Appomattox Court House

27.   Where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War

28.   14. Reconstruction effected Texas how?

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

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

31.   Economic independence

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

33.   It became a sharecropping based economy

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

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

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