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Civil War Review/Study Guide: **  Civil War    ** **  Study Guide   ** 26-30. Identify each of the following key Civil War leaders. 26. Abraham Lincoln 27. Jefferson Davis 28. Ulysses S. Grant 29. Robert E. Lee 30. Frederick Douglass 31-33. Identify each of the following important Civil War battles. 31. Antietam 32. Gettysburg 33. Appomattox 34. Why did the Battle of Antietam mark a new stage in the Civil War?
 * 1)  Who was the Republican candidate for president in 1860?
 * 2)  In the 1860 presidential election what political party split over the issue of slavery?
 * 3)  Who easily won a majority of the electoral votes in the 1860 presidential election and became the sixteenth president of the United States?
 * 4)  What states refused to accept Lincoln’s election as president?
 * 5)  Why did these states refuse to accept Lincoln’s election as president?
 * 6)  What did several southern states do in late 1860 and early 1861?
 * 7)  What did it mean for a state to secede from the Union?
 * 8)  What new nation did the Southern states establish after they seceded from the Union?
 * 9)  Who became president of the Confederate States of America?
 * 10)  What position was Jefferson Davis holding when he was elected president of the Confederacy?
 * 11)  From what fort did President Abraham Lincoln refuse to evacuate federal troops in April 1861?
 * 12)  Where was Fort Sumter located?
 * 13)  Where did the Civil War begin?
 * 14)  When did the Civil War begin?
 * 15)  What were the dates of the Civil War?
 * 16)  What is a civil war?
 * 17)  How did Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas react to President Lincoln’s call for troops after the Confederates’ attack on Fort Sumter?
 * 18)  What two factors led to the Civil War?
 * 19)  What have the Virginia Standards of Learning for U.S. History identified as the seven causes of the Civil War? (In your answer please include all three parts of #1.)
 * 20)  What action did the secession of the southern states trigger?
 * 21)  Define emancipation.
 * 22)  What early nineteenth century debate reached a climax during the Civil War?
 * 23)  What was at risk during the Civil War?
 * 24)  What depended on the outcome of the American Civil War?
 * 25)  How do the casualties in the Civil War compare to those of other wars in which American have fought?
 * 1)  Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
 * 2)  What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
 * 3)  How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the character of the war?
 * 4)  Why did the Emancipation Proclamation discourage both Great Britain and France from interfering in the American Civil War?
 * 5)  How did Lincoln describe the Union in the Gettysburg Address?
 * 6)  How had the Southern states viewed the Union?
 * 7)  In the Gettysburg Address what dual purpose did Lincoln believe the Civil War was fulfilling?
 * 8)  Why did Lincoln consider the Civil War a “Second American Revolution”?
 * 9)  On what three groups of people did the Civil War have a big impact?
 * 10)  In what two ways did the Civil War impact African-Americans?
 * 11)  How did the Civil War affect the common soldier?
 * 12)  How do historians know about the life of the common soldier during the Civil War?
 * 13)  What did Southern soldiers often find when they returned home after the war?
 * 14)  How did the Civil War physically affect many soldiers on both sides?
 * 15)  During the Civil War, what roles were women required to assume on the home front?
 * 16)  Describe many women’s role during the Civil War?
 * 17)  What new roles did women also assume during the Civil War?