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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 7 of 9

The Civil War

Slavery, secession and war

What your child practices

How the conflict over slavery led to secession and war, Lincoln's leadership, key events and people from Fort Sumter to Appomattox, and how enslaved people helped win their own freedom.

California Content Standards learning standard: 8.10.1; 8.10.2; 8.10.3; 8.10.4; 8.10.5; 8.10.6; 8.10.7 · state and federal authority, the geography of North and South, secession, Lincoln, the war's leaders and major battles, and its effects

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why did the North have an advantage?

    • Better weather
    • A king's support
    • More people, factories and railroads
    • More cotton

  2. Question 2

    About how many soldiers died in the Civil War?

    • About 600
    • About 6000
    • More than 600,000
    • About 60 million

  3. Question 3

    In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln described the war as a test of whether a nation…

    • Could rule Europe
    • Could build railroads
    • Could win gold
    • "Conceived in liberty" and dedicated to equality could survive

  4. Question 4

    Robert Smalls, an enslaved ship pilot, freed himself and others by…

    • Writing a novel
    • Sailing a Confederate ship to the Union navy
    • Running for president
    • Digging a tunnel

  5. Question 5

    Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 by…

    • Robert E. Lee
    • Ulysses S. Grant
    • Frederick Douglass
    • John Wilkes Booth

  6. Question 6

    What was the Anaconda Plan?

    • A plan to free Canada
    • A Confederate railroad
    • A tax law
    • The Union plan to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi

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