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WorksheetsCivil War
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This battle is when the Confederacy was divided by the Union, and therefore weakened.
a)
Battle of Vicksburg
b)
Battle of Bull Run
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Antietam
2.
This was the bloodiest battle day in American History.
a)
Battle of Fort Wagner
b)
Battle of Bull Run
c)
Battle of Antietam
d)
Battle of Vicksburg
3.
The First Black Regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, fought this battle.
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battle of Fort Wagner
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Bull Run
4.
This first major land battle showed both North and South the war was going to be long.
a)
Battle of Bull Run
b)
Battle of Gettysburg
c)
Battle of Vicksburg
d)
Battle of Fort Wagner
5.
This battle of was the turning point of the war after the Confederate army could no longer attack.
a)
Battle of Vicksburg
b)
Battle of Bull Run
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Antietam
6.
This abolitionist wrote the powerful novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
a)
Ida Wells-Barnett
b)
W.E.B. Dubois
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
7.
This journalist wrote about the hardships of Jim Crow laws and lynching.
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Ida Wells-Barnett
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
W.E.B. Dubois
8.
This civil rights activist believed that all of the top educated blacks should become leaders of their community.
a)
Dred Scott
b)
W.E.B. Dubois
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Ida Wells-Barnett
9.
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property and not citizens when this person sued for freedom.
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. Dubois
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Dred Scott
10.
This activist believed that in order to obtain jobs, blacks should accept being second-class.
a)
W.E.B. Dubois
b)
Dred Scott
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
11.
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry had many effects, but was the GREATEST impact the raid?
a)
North and South came to a temporary peace
b)
It led to the decline of the Republican Party
c)
The South realized fighting was the only option to keep slavery
d)
Popular Sovereignty was allowed in all states by the Federal Government
12.
What event happened in late 1860 and early 1861 that led the first Southern states to secede?
a)
Protesting the election of Lincoln
b)
Protesting John Brown not being punished
c)
Protesting the beating of Charles Sumner
d)
Protesting the Dred Scott Decision
13.
Why was it key that Maryland remain in the Union?
a)
The South would gain control of the Potomac River
b)
Washington D.C. would be forced to end the slave trade and slavery
c)
Washington D.C. would be surrounded by the Confederacy
d)
The South would have control of more land than the North
14.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
a)
South's plan for invading the North and blocking ports in Boston and New York
b)
South's plan to march and destroy anything that could help a Northern soldier
c)
North's plan for beating the South with physical battles
d)
North's plan to cut off supplies and people to different parts of the South, and therefore dividing it
15.
What was an advantage the North had over the South?
a)
More qualified Generals
b)
Britain's military support
c)
Industry and Resources
d)
Support from all citizens
16.
What was an advantage the South had over the North?
a)
Greater number of soldiers
b)
More railroad tracks
c)
Industry and Resources
d)
Experienced Generals
17.
What was the immediate effect, in terms of slavery, during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued?
a)
Nothing
b)
Freed all Slaves
c)
Only freed slaves in the South
d)
Only freed slaves in Border States
18.
Why did Radical Republicans oppose Johnson's Reconstruction plan?
a)
Too harsh on the South
b)
Too lenient on the South
c)
Too generous to newly freed slaves
d)
Difficult to understand, and too expensive to put into practice
19.
What was one of the important aspects of the Radical Republicans' Reconstruction plan?
a)
Legalization of Black Codes
b)
Ended Reconstruction
c)
Ordered the South to be under Military Rule
d)
Offered to full pardons to all Confederate officials and officers
20.
What was one of the successes of the Freedman's Bureau?
a)
Ended governmental policies that were racist
b)
Public school system was created
c)
Helped to ease conflicts between the North and South
d)
Turned the South into an industrial region
21.
What was the MAIN goal of the Ku Klux Klan?
a)
Making the lives of newly freed slaves and poor whites better
b)
Stop newly freed people from using their new rights and powers
c)
To take over Southern State offices so that Northerners don't
d)
To bring back the Confederacy and start the Civil War again
22.
After the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, what was an effect?
a)
The President could now hire governmental officials in a new way
b)
Blacks were guaranteed citizenship and rights
c)
The three federal branches of government were separated to ensure balance
d)
The Supreme Court became the most powerful force in the Federal Government
23.
In terms of blacks in the South after the Civil War, which of the following is NOT true?
a)
Some looked for family, and some left to go west to look for new opportunities
b)
They only wanted to get a job and money. They did not care about getting an education
c)
Some were elected to different offices
d)
Most got stuck into the cycle of tenant farming and sharecropping
24.
Which Amendment ended slavery?
a)
Thirteenth
b)
Fourteenth
c)
Fifteenth
d)
Sixteenth
25.
In 1877 Reconstruction ended. Why?
a)
The South was fully rebuilt
b)
New laws made Southerners eager to continue Northern practices
c)
Compromise was made for Republicans for them to get their candidate into office if they ended it
d)
Too expensive to continue
26.
What were the reasons for poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
a)
Enforce the Fifteenth Amendment
b)
To prevent Blacks from voting
c)
To prevent from criminals and immigrants from voting
d)
To prevent bribery and corruption at polling places
27.
What did white southerners try to do after Reconstruction as they got their offices back in state governments?
a)
Refused to pay war debts to America
b)
They gave money to former slaves
c)
They left the Democratic party and joined the Republican party
d)
They began to undo and reverse Reconstruction era reforms
28.
What did the phrase, "Solid South" refer to in terms of the Southern states after Reconstruction?
a)
South was controlled by White Republicans until the civil rights era
b)
South was controlled by White Democrats until the civil rights era
c)
The South was rebuilt with a solid foundation by the Radical Republicans
d)
The South began to defend the rights of Blacks
29.
What was the affect of Plessy v. Ferguson in terms of Civil Rights?
a)
Public Schools that were segregated were unconstitutional
b)
Rejected the premise of the Jim Crow laws
c)
Made racial segregation in public facilities legal
d)
Helped to strengthen the protections of the 14th Amendment
30.
Why did freedmen have trouble improving their economic standing?
a)
Sharecropping kept them in poverty
b)
Becoming literate if you were a former slave was illegal
c)
Northern factory workers had migrated to the South and were competing for the same jobs
d)
The federal government confiscated their land
31.
Why did the Exodusters leave the South for the West after the Civil War ended?
a)
They were participating in the Gold Rush
b)
They were promised land and animals to work the land by the government if they moved
c)
They feared being returned to slavery and wanted to own land for themselves
d)
They were ample opportunities for factory work out West
32.
What was the MAIN contribution to Lincoln being re-elected in 1864?
a)
The Civil War ended
b)
Battle of Gettysburg
c)
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Sherman's capture of Atlanta, and his following march to the sea
33.
What was the PRIMARY goal of Abraham Lincoln in regards to the United States according to his inaugural speeches?
a)
Immediately ending slavery
b)
Making the national government as powerful as possible
c)
Force the South to change their main source of income from agriculture to industry
d)
Preserving the Union at any cost
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