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WorksheetsAmerican Civil War
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the 13th amendment?
a)
Abolishment of slavery
b)
Right to vote
c)
Right to a fair trial
d)
equal pay
2.
General of Confederate Forces, (Army of Northern Virginia)
a)
Lee
b)
Grant
c)
Mcgroove
d)
Patton
3.
What is the 14th amendment
a)
Equal Rights
b)
Right to vote
c)
freedom of speech
d)
Right to bear arms
4.
Major battle on the Mississippi River that was a turning point in the west?
a)
Gettysburg
b)
Vicksburg
c)
Fredricksburg
d)
Chancellorsville
5.
What was Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg after the battle?
a)
Gettysburg Address
b)
Emancipation Proclamation
c)
Inaugural Address
d)
Richmond speech
6.
What was the time period after the Civil War called?
a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Revolutionary Era
c)
Reconstruction
d)
Civil War
7.
General of the Union?
a)
Grant
b)
Lee
c)
Jackson
d)
Walburg
8.
16th President and president of the United States during the Civil War?
a)
Trump
b)
Clinton
c)
Roosevelt
d)
Lincoln
9.
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
a)
Appomattox Court House
b)
Mobile
c)
Austin
d)
Vicksburg
10.
First shots of the Civil War were where?
a)
Fort. Sumter
b)
Fort. Hammer
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Twin Peaks
11.
Who had more soldiers ?
a)
Union
b)
Confederacy
12.
Who was the General who created total war by destroying Atlanta?
a)
General Lee
b)
General Patton
c)
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
d)
General Sherman
13.
Union victory defending the North bloody battle?
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battle of Shiloh
c)
Vicksburg
d)
Fredricksburg
14.
Who killed President Lincoln?
a)
John Smith
b)
General Lee
c)
James Bond
d)
John Wilkes Booth
15.
The south's strategy?
a)
Defense
b)
Offense
c)
Aaconda
d)
Tiger plan
16.
What was the original cause of the Civil War
a)
preserving the union
b)
Slavery
c)
sectionalism
d)
President election
17.
What was Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address?
a)
The Union
b)
Confederacy
c)
Slavery
d)
voting
18.
Second inaugural address from Abraham Lincoln spoke of?
a)
That slavery would end and the carnage was caused by it
b)
Reconstruction
c)
treaty
d)
Canada
19.
Who was the first African American senator
a)
Barack Obama
b)
Andrew Jackson
c)
Hiram Rhodes Revels
d)
John Marshall
20.
Reconstruction means what in United States history?
a)
Lincoln to make peace
b)
rebuilding and bringing the south back in
c)
Story of new beginnings
d)
Looking back on the Civil War
21.
What was the organization meant to help newly freed slaves
a)
food stamps
b)
freedmen's bureau
c)
land reform
d)
homestead act
22.
What was meant to take away the rights from the newly freedmen?
a)
federalism
b)
elections
c)
black codes
d)
amendments
23.
What is the Homestead Act?
a)
Federal law that gave government-owned land to small farmers
b)
gave native Americans land
c)
sent Confederates to Brazil
d)
repaid war widows
24.
What is the Dawes Act?
a)
sold land to Canadians
b)
Take land from France
c)
split up Indian land to individual Indian familes
d)
free wagons from the government
25.
What is sharecropping
a)
system in which farm laborers kept some of the crop
b)
selling land
c)
buying slaves for crops
d)
eating cotton
26.
segregation is what?
a)
separating cotton from the seeds
b)
black codes
c)
forced separation of whites and blacks in public spaces
d)
all the above
27.
What is a Jim Crow Law
a)
Law that enforces segregation
b)
Laws against Crows
c)
Laws against communists
d)
law against confederates
28.
Poll tax was what?
a)
money from voteing
b)
tax refund
c)
a tax on brooms
d)
a tax on people before they could vote
29.
What was a key tactic used by the Union
a)
Blockading Confederate ports
b)
human wave tactics
c)
special forces
d)
France coming o help the Union
30.
The Battle of Shiloh was significant
a)
Confederate victory
b)
Union victory but at a heavy cost more than all previous American wars in casualties
c)
resulted in a stalemate
d)
no deaths
31.
How did people dodge the draft in the war?
a)
leaving the country
b)
Being wealthy, providing money or a sub
c)
exploring the west
d)
faking illness
32.
The New York draft Riots were caused by what?
a)
Drafting working people for the army
b)
giving blacks guns
c)
killing the Irish
d)
hiring mercenaries
33.
What was the greater goal of emancipation?
a)
to end slavery
b)
To deny labor force to the Confederacy and to stop France and England from entering the war
c)
to determine the invasion of Canada
d)
To slow the confederacy plans to free the slaves
34.
Who killed the black soldiers in cold blood in the battle of Ft. Pillow
a)
General Bedford
Forest
Forest
b)
General Jackson
c)
General Meade
d)
Lieutenant Dan
35.
What is the Ten-Percent Plan
a)
ten percent of confederates had to die
b)
ten percent of blacks freed
c)
all the above
d)
10% of the former confederate states had to take a oath of loyalty and abolish slavery
36.
The Radicals versus Johnson refers to
a)
Johnson pushing back on reconsturction
b)
Johnson being pro white
c)
Johnson wanting to make a zombie Lincoln
d)
Bro do you even study
37.
Black codes were meant to
a)
codes used by black ops
b)
limit the freedom of Freedmen
c)
limit Confederates votes who owned slaves
d)
laws that allowed killing of former slave owners
38.
President Johnson was almost impeached because of ?
a)
the firing of Stanton
b)
supporting the clan
c)
ending a war with Mexico
d)
Bro for real the final is like in a week study
39.
What was the major battle that was a turning point in the Pennsylvania?
a)
Vicksburg
b)
Antietam
c)
Fredricksburg
d)
Gettysburg
40.
Emancipation Proclamation gave freedom to ?
a)
Slaves in rebel states
b)
Slaves in border States
c)
Irish
d)
Mexican Immigrants
41.
First Major battle of the Civil War? South won
a)
battle Shiloh
b)
battle of Bull Run
c)
Battle of Berlin
d)
Battle of Gettysburg
42.
Norths Strategy in the War
a)
Battle Plan
b)
Anaconda Plan
c)
Operation Freedom
d)
King Cotton
43.
Leader of the Confederate States of America
a)
Clinton
b)
Ford
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Lincoln
44.
White Democrats often used what
a)
Intimation and violence to prevent blacks from voting
b)
bribes
c)
smuggling
d)
Panic
45.
What was the original cause of the American Civil War?
a)
Sectionalism
b)
Slavery
c)
Abolitionists
d)
trade along the Mississippi River
46.
Path of destruction through the South by General Sherman
a)
March on the rebels
b)
March to the Sea
c)
Berlin Airlift
d)
Chernobyl
47.
Who is the General who lead the March to the sea
a)
General Hooker
b)
General Sherman
c)
General Lee
d)
General Burnside
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