Civil War Quiz

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the ____________

• Union
• Confederacy
• Border States
• All the United States

The first battle of the Civil War was....

• Gettysburg
• Vicksburg
• Fort Sumnter
• Bull Run

Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

The name give to the north was what?

• Confederacy
• Rebels
• Union
• Revolutionaries

Which of the following was an advantage that the Union had?

• More experienced military leaders

• Defensive Strategy

• Greater population

• High motivation to fight for independence

What did the North call its strategy to blockade the South's coastline and gain control of the Mississippi River?

• Anaconda Plan
• Rattlesnake Plan
• Scorpion Plan
• Blockade Plan

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the early years of the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery

• to end British control of the Western territories

• to make a profit selling war supplies

• to preserve the Union

According to the Missouri Compromise, any new territory that becomes a state NORTH of the 36-30 line would be a _____ state.

• Free

• Slave

• Sovereign

• Abolitionist

The Kansas Nebraska Act caused many problems between abolitionists and southern slave owners. What was this conflict known as?

• Punctured Kansas
• Bleeding Kansas
• Nebraska No
• Breathing Kansas

The President of the United States during the Civil War was ______________________.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• Robert E. Lee