The 1800s Drag and Drop Quiz

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.​ (a)  

• Civil War
• Vietnam War
• Revolutionary War

Answer explanation

The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?​ (a)  

• Freed the slaves
• Gave the South its own slaves
• Divided the North and the South

Answer explanation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Name the United States War between the North and the South.​ (a)  

• The Civil War or the War between the States
• The Spanish-American War
• The Mexican War

Answer explanation

At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War. In the Senate, however, the fall of Sumter was the latest in a series of events that culminated in war.

What did Susan B. Anthony do?​ ​ (a)  

• Fought for women's rights
• Created the first flag
• Penned the national anthem

Answer explanation

Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony's work helped pave the way for the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.​ (a)  

• Slavery
• Land Acquisitions
• Territories

Answer explanation

Many consider a significant starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The crew had seized the Africans from the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jao Bautista.

What is one important thing that Abraham Lincoln did?​ (a)  

• Freed the slaves
• Moved the location of the White House
• Signed the Declaration of Independence

Answer explanation

When Abraham Lincoln, a known opponent of slavery, was elected president, the South Carolina legislature perceived a threat. Calling a state convention, the delegates voted to remove the state of South Carolina from the union known as the United States of America. The secession of South Carolina was followed by the secession of six more states—Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas–and the threat of secession by four more—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. These eleven states eventually formed the Confederate States of America.

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803? ​ (a)  

• The Louisiana Territory
• The Northwest Territory
• The Alaska Territory

Answer explanation

In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory--828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.