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Civil War Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Union general marched through Georgia, destroying everything in his path?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

William Sherman

c)

Stonewall Jackson

2.

Sherman's March to the Sea began in Atlanta and ended in ___________.

a)

Savannah

b)

Jacksonville

c)

Macon

3.

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Fort Pulaski

c)

Fort McHenry

4.

True or False: The SOUTH really liked Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

True or False: Uncle Tom's Cabin showed people of the North the evils of slavery.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who fought the North during the Civil War?

a)

England

b)

East

c)

South

7.

Robert E. Lee was a general for the

a)

Union army

b)

Confederate army

c)

English army

8.

Why did the South want to keep slavery legal?

a)

They needed slaves to work in the mines.

b)

They needed slaves to work on the large plantations.

c)

They needed slaves to work in the many factories.

9.

What did John Brown hope to do at the Raid at Harper's Ferry?

a)

He wanted steal weapons from the North to give to the South.

b)

He wanted to give Confederate soldiers more weapons.

c)

He wanted to give slaves weapons to fight against their cruel owners.

10.

What did most people do to make money in the North during the Civil War?

a)

Worked in factories.

b)

Worked on plantations.

c)

Built cars.

11.

Which victory for the North was a turning point during the Civil War?

a)

Sherman's March to the Sea

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Gettysburg

12.

True or False: The South wanted the Federal government to have more power and the states to have fewer rights.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What did the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin do?

a)

Help convince Americans that slavery was wrong.

b)

Helped convince Americans that slaver should still exist.

c)

It kept people informed about the war.

14.

After the Civil War, what was life like in the South?

a)

People made lots of money.

b)

People were very poor and food was scarce.

c)

Nothing changed in the South.

15.

Which TWO were the main causes of the Civil War?

a)

Slavery

b)

A tax on tea

c)

Westward Expansion

d)

States' Rights

16.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Frederick Douglas

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

17.

When a state leaves the Union it has ___________>

a)

Seceeded

b)

successful

c)

saved

d)

sanctioned

18.

What name did the states that left the Union give themselves?

a)

The Confederacy

b)

Republic of the Southern States

c)

United States of the South