Social Studies Civil War Test

What event started the Civil War?

• The Battle of Gettysburg

• The attack on Fort Sumter

• Appomattox Courthouse

• The Atlanta Campagin

Which Northern attack on the Southern countryside left many cities destroyed, the landscape torched, and the livestock killed?

• The Anaconda Plan

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Gettysburg Address

• Attack on Fort Sumter

Which Civil War battle is considered one of  the bloodiest, set in Pennsylvania, and is

      credited as a major turning point for the Union in the war against the Confederacy?

• The Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Atlanta

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• The Anaconda plan

What speech did Abraham Lincoln deliver after the Battle of Gettysburg?

• I Have A Dream

• Gettysburg Address

• We the People

Robert E. Lee met Ulysses S. Grant here so he could surrender.

• Gettysburg

• New York City

• Appomattox Courthous

• Philadelphia

Hero of First Bull Run whose actions inspired Confederate troops. Who am I?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

Led the “March to the Sea” through Georgia.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Barack Obama

• William T. Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

President of the U.S. during the Civil War

• George Bush

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

Who am I? An Abolitionist who lead a rebellion against slavery. I was captured and

         charged with treason, found guilty, and hanged. I was considered a hero by Northerners 

         and Southerners thought I wanted to destroy their way of life. 

• John Brown

• John Hancock

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in response to which law passed by  

         Congress in 1850?

• Black Codes

• Townsend Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Civil Rights Act