ADD ON: CIVIL WAR TEST

Which of the following is true of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• It abolished slavery in the United States
• It helped Lincoln get elected in 1860
• It freed slaves in the Confederacy, but not the border states
• It made it illegal for African Americans to join the Union Army

Who was the President during the Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Jefferson

Who won the Civil War?

• The Union

• The Confederacy

• Mexico

• Europe

Which side fought for slavery during the Civil War?

• Confederacy

• Union

• French

• British

What was the cause of the Civil War?

Which battle is known as the first battle of the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter

• Vicksburg

• The Alamo

• San Jacinto

On what battlefield did Abraham Lincoln give his famous Gettysburg Address speech about unifying the country?

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox Courthouse

Where did General Lee surrender to the Union ending the U.S. Civil War?

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Vicksburg

What does the word secede mean?

• When one group asks to join another group

• When one group voluntarily leaves another group

• When one political territory is added to another

• When you accomplish something

Why did John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry help cause the Civil War?

• The slave revolt that he caused spread fear of African-Americans among abolitionists

• The shots that he fired at Harpers Ferry are considered part of the first battle of the Civil War

• Abolitionists became angry at Southerners for putting him to death

• Southerners were upset with their local government for hanging him.