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Study Guide Part 1

Directions: On a separate sheet of paper answer questions 1-3 using the word
bank. You may use your book, notes, and any other research tool to complete the
guide.
1. Which states seceded from the Union? (THERE ARE 11)
2.

Which four slave states stayed in the States that remained in the Union Border States?

3. Where were the other states that remained in the Union located? Free states
(THERE ARE 20)
*Note: Western counties of Virginia that refused to secede from the Union
WORD BANK:
Alabama
Arkansas

Illinois

Florida

North
Carolina

Tennessee

Oregon

Kansas

Mississippi

California

Virginia

South
Carolina

Maryland

Delaware

Michigan

Iowa

Maine

New York

Georgia

Wisconsin

Ohio

Kentucky

Louisiana

Minnesota

Rhode
Island

Pennsylvan
ia

Missouri

Texas

Massachus
etts

New Jersey

New
Hampshire

Connecticu
t

West
Virginia*

Indiana

Vermont

Important People:

Abraham Lincoln

Robert E. Lee

Jefferson Davis

Ulysses S. Grant

Frederick
Douglass

1. President of the Union during the Civil War

2.

President of the Confederacy

3.

Commander of the Union forces who accepted Lees surrender

4. Commander of the Confederate Army; was offered command of the Union Army by Lincoln
at the beginning of the war.
5.

Former enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist

Places:
Antietam
Washington, D.C.
Union

Appomattox Court
House
West Virginia
Richmond, VA

Bull Run (Manassas)

South Carolina

Vicksburg
Gettysburg Battle

Fort Sumter, S.C.

6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.

Capital of the Union

.
Capital of the Confederacy
.
Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
.
First major battle; The Confederacy won here twice
.
The bloodiest day of fighting during the Civil War
.
Battle that was the turning point of the war; the Union had the advantage of defending high
ground
.
12. Last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that gave the Union control of the river,
thereby dividing the South
.
13. Robert E. Lee surrendered here ending the Civil War
.
14. The western counties of Virginia that refused to secede from the Union.
.
15. South Carolina First state to secede from the Union
.
16.
Won the Civil War
.
Match the following events to their description.
17. ________ Fort Sumter
18. ________ Battle of First Manassas or Bull Run
19. _______ Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
20. ________ Battle of Vicksburg
21. ________ Battle of Gettysburg
22. ________ Appomattox Court House
a. battle in which the North took control of the Mississippi River and thus split the South in two
b. firing here began the Civil War
c. made freeing the slaves the new focus of the Civil War
d. site of Lees surrender to Grant that ended the Civil War
e. where the North repelled Lees invasion; battle was the turning point of the war
f. first major battle of the Civil War

Complete the chart by putting a check in the box for the North or
the South for each description.

NORTH

South

23.

Most of the devastation occurred here

24.

Had more well-trained officers

25.

More battles were fought here

26.

This side won the war