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US History: Civil War

Authored by Jenny Ferguson

Social Studies

8th Grade

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US History: Civil War
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Why did the Civil War begin?

The South did not want to grow cotton anymore for the North

Southern states wanted to secede from the United States and make their own country

Abraham Lincoln won the election and told the South they were not allowed to be part of the country anymore

Southern senators wanted to have a reelection and the North would not let them, so they wanted to create a new country with Mexico and Canada

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Who was Jefferson Davis?

A general for the Union

A Southern senator turned "president" of the Confederacy

Lincoln's secretary of war

A soldier who was a hero at the attack on Fort Sumter

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Who founded the American Red Cross and was nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield?"

Dorothea Dix

Rose Greenhow

Harriet Tubman

Clara Barton

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

tariffs

slavery

states rights

trade with Europe

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What is a civil war?

A conflict between two groups of citizens in one country

A conflict between two different countries

A conflict between two different continents

A conflict between two different hemispheres

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

he had a plan to raise taxes

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

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The name given to army from the North.

Confederates

Americans

Military

Union

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