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WorksheetsCh. 10 & 11 The Antebellum South &the Civil War
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 3hrs 0mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states?
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
Underground Subway
c)
Above ground lightrail
d)
Underground Bus
2.
What is the formal withdrawl of a state from the Union?
a)
secession
b)
drop out
c)
peace out
d)
session
3.
A few violent outbursts in this territory, such as the Sack of Lawrence and the Pottowatomie Massacre, led to the nickname, "Bleeding ?"
a)
Kansas
b)
Arkansas
c)
Alabama
d)
Kentucky
4.
What grants the right of residents in a territory to vote for or against slavery?
a)
popular sovereignty
b)
monopoly
c)
oligarchy
d)
monarchy
5.
What forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves ad guaranteed that they would be given a trial?
a)
Personal Liberty Laws
b)
6th Amendment
c)
Fugitive Slave Law
d)
Slave codes
6.
What was a series of measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free and slave states?
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Civil War
c)
Webster's Compromise
d)
Compromise of 1820
7.
Who became the President of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Stephan A. Douglas
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
8.
Abraham Lincoln challenged Stephan Douglas in the 1858 Senate race for what state?
a)
Illinois
b)
Wyoming
c)
Colorado
d)
Oklahoma
9.
What is the term when one favors native-born Americans over immigrants?
a)
Nativism
b)
Immigrant
c)
Foreigner
d)
Emmigrant
10.
Who tried to create a slave uprising at Harpers Ferry, VA but failed and was tried for treason?
a)
John Brown
b)
Henry Clay
c)
Stephan A. Douglas
d)
General Beauregaurd
11.
What ensured that escaped slaves would be returned to their owner if they escaped to the North?
a)
Fugitive Slave Act
b)
Personal Liberty Laws
c)
Slave Codes
d)
Jim Crow Laws
12.
What was the name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed slavery as a moral issue?
a)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
b)
Uncle Jeff's Cabin
c)
Uncle Jack's Cabin
d)
Uncle Thomas' Cabin
13.
She was a fierce abolitionist, a former slave, and a conductor for over 300 former slaves on the Underground Railroad. Who is she?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
c)
Harriet the Spy
d)
Harriet E. Wilson
14.
What split KansasTerritory into 2 parts, Kansas in the south and Nebraska in the north? It allowed popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
a)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
b)
Kansas-Hawaii Act
c)
Kansas-Dakota Act
d)
Kansas-Washington Act
15.
Who was the first Republican president?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Ronald Reagan
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Chester A. Arthur
16.
What was the name of the group of states that seceded from the union?
a)
Confederate States of America
b)
the Union
c)
United States of America
d)
The Blue
17.
Which political party opposed the extension of slavery into the new territories?
a)
Free-soilers
b)
Democrats
c)
Whigs
d)
Federalists
18.
Dred Scott, a slave from ? , sued for his freedom after his owner died, claiming he had lived as a free man in a free state.
This state was a slave state north of 36. 30'.
This state was a slave state north of 36. 30'.
a)
Missouri
b)
Michigan
c)
New Mexico
d)
Arizona
19.
The North's economy had both ? and ? which supplied products and people.
a)
industry & immigrants
b)
corn & seating
c)
cotton and slaves
d)
tobacco & indentured
20.
The South's economy was dependent on ? and ?
a)
agriculture & slavery
b)
industry & immigrants
c)
railroads & telegraphs
d)
paid labor & industry
21.
What is a draft that would force certain members of a population to serve in the Army?
a)
Conscription
b)
Volunteer
c)
Sign-up
d)
Participate willingly
22.
The single bloodiest day in Civil War and American history with over 26,000 casualties is known as what?
a)
Antietam
b)
D-Day
c)
Bull Run #1
d)
Fort Sumter
23.
In the North, if you wanted to avoid conscription, you could pay a fee of $300 called what?
a)
Commutation
b)
Ransom
c)
Blackmail
d)
Bonus
24.
What did Lincoln suspend that allowed him to imprison people without charging them?
a)
habeus corpus
b)
Miranda
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Marbury v Madison
25.
This technological innovation resulted in the amputation of many men and was a contributing factor to why the Civil War was so deadly.
a)
Minié ball
b)
walkie talkies
c)
gun powder
d)
atomic bomb
26.
Lincoln used this to shift the reasoning of the Civil War from a war about saving the Union to a war about slavery?
It freed all the slaves in the rebel areas.
It freed all the slaves in the rebel areas.
a)
Emancipation Proclamation
b)
the moon landing
c)
the session of South Carolina
d)
Battle of Bull Run
27.
What was the name given to the Northern Democrats who sympathized with the South?
a)
Copperheads
b)
Abolitionists
c)
Confederates
d)
the Blue
28.
Who is a Confederate Commander known as the greatest military strategist in U.S. history?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
McDowell
c)
McClellan
d)
Beauregard
29.
This General replaced McDowell in 1862, but was fired after the Battle of Antietam for having a 'case of the slows' and being too cautious.
a)
George McClellan
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Stephan A. Douglas
30.
This was the Confederate General at the first victory at Bull Run where he received his nickname, but was later mistakenly shot by his own troops.
a)
Stonewall Jackson
b)
General Beauregard
c)
Benedict Arnold
d)
General Meade
31.
He led the Anaconda Plan on the western part of the Civil War, and later became leader of the Union army. He became President later on.
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Uberto M. Cook
d)
George M. McClellan
32.
Along with capturing Richmond, what were the other two pieces of the Anaconda Plan?
a)
Southern Blockade & Splitting the Confederacy in half
b)
Take the port cities & burn them
c)
Manuever north into Canada to suffocate the North
d)
Collect a variety of snakes to throw at enemies
33.
Where did the Civil War begin?
a)
Fort Sumter
b)
Where didn't it?
c)
Fort Henry & Donelson
d)
Fort Omaha
34.
This was the South's plan to involve Great Britian and France into the war. It backfred because no one likes to be blackmailed, there was a suplus of cotton the previous year, and other places produced and sold cotton to Europe.
a)
Cotton Diplomacy
b)
Anaconda Plan
c)
Schleiffan Plan
d)
Operation Overlord
35.
What is the date the Civil War begins?
a)
April 12, 1861
b)
Dec. 6, 1941
c)
July 4, 1776
d)
April 15, 1912
36.
She was a battlefield nurse who would later go on to found the Red Cross.
a)
Clara Barton
b)
Florence Nightengale
c)
Sally Tompkins
d)
Nacy Drew
37.
What was the nickname given to the northern Democrats who opposed the draft?
a)
Copperheads
b)
Whigs
c)
Federalists
d)
Free Soilers
38.
This is the official date the Civil War ended, which Lincoln never saw.
a)
May 26, 1865
b)
April 15, 1865
c)
May 2, 2011
d)
April 15 1912
39.
What did the U.S. Sanitary Commission do?
a)
Provided clean clothing and inspected hospitals
b)
clean up after battles
c)
double checked if doctors sanitised their hands
d)
Notified the famillies of the deceased
40.
At the end of this 48 day battle, the Union took control of the Mississippi River.
a)
Siege of Vicksburg
b)
Battle of Bull Run
c)
`Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Sumter
41.
What did soldiers start to do to identify themselves after the death toll rose so high?
a)
They pinned their name and address to their uniforms.
b)
They kept a picture of their family in their coat pockets.
c)
They signed a document afer every battle.
d)
They carved their names on the old bullets.
42.
During this battle, 6,000 men were killed, four times as many as those killed on D-Day.
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battle of Bull Run
c)
Second Battle of Bull Run
d)
Battle of Chancellorsville
43.
What is the name of the total warefare stemming from Atlanta to Savannah, GA?
a)
Sherman's March
b)
Manchester by the Sea
c)
Sherman's Charge
d)
Pickett's March
44.
Lincoln did not think that this document gave him authority to punish the South for the war.
a)
U.S. Constitution
b)
U.S. Declaration of Independence
c)
U.S. Bill of Rights
d)
U.S. Rules
45.
What was the new name that Lee gave the Confederate army?
a)
Army of VA
b)
Army of Southern VA
c)
Army of Northern VA
d)
Army of Western VA
46.
By the end of the war more than ? of Union soldiers were African American?
a)
1/2
b)
1/3
c)
1/10
d)
1/8
47.
What was a specific, big killer of soldiers?
a)
gagne green
b)
amputations
c)
mumps
d)
small pox
48.
What were slave holding states that remained in the Union and formed a border with the South known as?
a)
Slave States
b)
Free States
c)
Confederate States
d)
Border States
49.
Who would end up having national authority after the war?
a)
Union gov.
b)
Confederate gov.
c)
State gov.
d)
Federal gov.
50.
What was the name of the march of Confederates in a mile-wide line during Gettysburg?
a)
Pickett's Charge
b)
Pickett's March
c)
Sherman's March
d)
Sherman's Charge
51.
What was the first battle called, which the Union soldiers retreated into the spectators? The war would last longer than anticipated.
a)
Bull Run
b)
Sumter
c)
Vicksburg
d)
Antietam
52.
By the end of the war, more than ? men died.
a)
600,000
b)
50,000
c)
6,000,000
d)
6,000
53.
Which amendment outlawed all slavery in the United States in 1865?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
12th
54.
The Civil War was considered the first modern war because?
a)
It began after the Industrial Revolution.
b)
This war was the first to use muskets.
c)
It was the first war people watched.
d)
The Civil War aired live footage every evening.
55.
Cotton was referred to as what?
a)
white gold
b)
brown gold
c)
black gold
d)
gold
56.
Which battle was known as General Robert E. Lee's greatest and most brilliant victory?
a)
Chancellorsville
b)
Wildnerness
c)
Antietam
d)
Shiloh
57.
Who surrendered at Appomattox on April 9, 1865?
a)
General Lee
b)
General Grant
c)
General McClellan
d)
General Beauregard
58.
Which of these states would complete this list of Border States; Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, ?
a)
Kentucky
b)
Tennessee
c)
West Virginia
d)
Nebraska
59.
Which General used total warfare, marching from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia?
a)
General Sherman
b)
General McDowell
c)
General McClellan
d)
General Stonewall
60.
What closed slavery forever in California, Utah, and Mexico territories?
a)
Wilmot Proviso
b)
Missouri Compromise
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
New Jersey Plan
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