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WorksheetsCivil War
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
All of the following are things that led up to the Civil War EXCEPT
The invention of the Cotton Gin
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Dred Scott Decision
John Brown's Raid
The Missouri Compromise
When the southern states left the Union, they created the
United States of America
Republic of America
Confederate States of America
Slaveholder States of America
Which of the following was NOT one of the states that seceded to join the Confederacy?
South Carolina
Georgia
Texas
Pennsylvania
True or False: Almost as many soldiers died in the Civil War than in all other American wars combined.
TRUE
FALSE
According to the timeline, in what year did the southern states start the Confederate States of America?
1846
1865
1861
1840
According to the timeline, all of the following events occurred in 1865 EXCEPT
Abraham Lincoln is killed
The Civil War is over
The Emancipation Proclamation is written
General Lee surrenders to General Grant.
Based on the chart, what was the key advantage the Union had at the beginning of the Civil War?
Larger population
Large Farms
Twenty-five percent of the nation’s wealth
Twenty percent of the nation’s industry.
Based on the chart, what was the key advantage the Confederacy had at the beginning of the Civil War?
Larger Population.
Seventy-two percent of the nation’s railroad mileage.
Fighting on own territory.
Seventy-five percent of the nation’s wealth.
Based on the chart, who would you have predicted would win the Civil War?
The North because they had a larger percentage of population, wealth, and factories.
The South because they had a larger value of exports and bank deposits.
The North because they had large farms and were fighting on own territory.
The South because they had more railroads and iron and steel production.
TRUE OR FALSE: The Emancipation Proclamation freed ALL the slaves in the Union and Confederacy.
TRUE
FALSE
Why didn't Lincoln free the slaves in the border states?
He didn't want to upset the border states and potentially have them join the Confederacy.
He didn't believe that slavery was all that bad.
He wanted to keep slavery in the border states forever.
All of the above.
According to the excerpt, what TWO things did Abraham Lincoln want the freed slaves to do? PICK TWO!
Work and abstain from violence
Continue to work as slaves on the plantations
Be violent against their former masters.
Join the Military
Which TWO of the following statements best supports your answer to #12? PICK TWO!
I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free;
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Why would abolitionists be against the Emancipation Proclamation?
Because it freed all of the slaves.
Because it didn’t free any slaves.
Because it only freed slaves in the Confederate states and not the slaves in the border states that remained loyal to the Union.
Because it only freed slaves in the North.
In what battle was there the most American casualties during the Civil War (and still is the largest to this very day)?
Shiloh
Bull Run
Fredersickburg
Gettysburg
Which of the following excerpts from the Gettysburg Address refers to the Declaration of Independence?
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
All of the following were goals Lincoln accomplished in the Gettysburg Address EXCEPT
To honor the soldiers that died.
To remind the people how bad slavery was.
To challenge the soldiers to continue to fight.
To remind the country why the soldiers died and that the war was not over.
All of the following were key elements of Grant's war strategy EXCEPT
Sherman's army will advance to Georgia (Sherman's March to the Sea)
Cut the South off from the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River.
Allow slaves to fight for the Confederacy.
Army of the Potomac will attack Lee's army in Virginia.
Why did critics call Ulysses S. Grant a butcher?
Because he had a drinking problem.
Because his strategies cost the North thousands of lives.
Because he was not an impressive leader.
All of the above.
What happened at Appomattox Court House?
Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy surrender to Grant.
The Confederacy wins a decisive battle.
Grant and Sherman die in battle on the court house steps.
Lincoln is assasinated.
All of the following were the terms of the Confederate surrender EXCEPT
Confederate soldiers had to lay down their arms.
Confederate soldiers were allowed to keep their horses.
Three days worth of food was sent to Lee's hungry troops.
Jefferson Davis is given the death penalty for being President of the Confederacy.
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Jefferson Davis
John Wilkes Booth
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
TRUE OR FALSE: Everyone was happy that Lincoln was assassinated because both the Union and Confederacy didn't believe that he could heal the nation's wounds.
TRUE
FALSE
All of the following describe the results/effects of the Civil War EXCEPT
More than 600,000 soldiers died.
Billions of dollars in damage, mostly to the South.
Union states did not free their slaves.
Two thirds of the South's railway system was destroyed.
Millions of slaves are freed.
The period after the Civil War was called
Reconstruction.
the Reformation.
Devastation.
the Renaissance.
