Module 18 Test -- The Civil War

Last Name, First Name

1. True or False: After 34 hours of cannons firing at Fort Sumter, the Civil War began?

• True
• False

2. The states of Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and _________________ were border states.

• Tennessee
• Virginia
• North Carolina
• Missouri

3. There were many casualties (a soldier who was wounded, captured, killed, or missing in action) during the Civil War. What single day battle saw the most casualties of any in American History?

• Antietam
• Gettysburg
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Battle at Shiloh

6. A military order given by Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves only in areas under confederate control that went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863

• Abolitionist Movement
• Emancipation Proclomation
• Gettesburg Address
• Northern Draft

7. The Confederacy captured a Union ship, armored it with heavy metal and called it the Virginia. We call these types of ships:

• Monitor
• Merrimack
• Ironcaps
• Ironclads

8. Her work formed the basis for what would become the American Red Cross. She provided needed medical attention to soldiers

• Clara Barton
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth
• Beyonce

9. The Civil War is said to have taken how many lives during the 4 year battle?

• 300,000-400,000
• 400,000-500,000
• Almost 620,000
• 200,000

10. There was not a lot of destruction and property being destroyed in the final years of the war in the the south. True or False

• True
• False

11. Which Union General was most famous for using "Total War" in the final years of the war?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Stonewall Jackson
• William Tecumseh Sherman