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WorksheetsThe Civil War 2022
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What battle was the turning point in the war?
Bull Run
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
In what battle did the North win because they controlled the high ground?
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
In what battle did the North divide the south by taking control of the Mississippi River?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Bull Run
Manassas
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Manassas
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
What was the first major battle of the war?
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Bull Run
What three ports did the Union block?
Savannah, Georgia
New Orleans, Louisiana
Charleston, South Carolina
Manassas, Virginia
What two southern cities were burned during the war?
Atlanta
Washington
Manassas
Richmond
Who believed force should be used to keep the Union together?
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Who opposed secession but didn't believe force should be used to make the states return to the Union?
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Where did the Civil War end?
Richmond
Washington
Appomattox
Manassas
Which Civil War nurse created the American Red Cross?
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Phyllis Wheatly
Clara Barton
Who urged southerns to accept defeat and reunite as Americans?
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass
Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?
Robert E Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S Grant
Which state held the capital of the Confederacy?
Washington
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Robert E Lee
While men were fighting, women were responsible for
running businesses and plantations
keeping supply lines open between the troops
notifying the government of escaped slaves
fighting in the war with the men
Who was a slave who sailed to freedom and later became a United States Congressman after the war?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Robert Smalls
The North liked tariffs because
they protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition
they protected large landowners and their cash crops
they wanted the national government to be strong
each state should be able to make their own laws
The South believed that
slavery should be abolished for moral reasons
the national and state governments should be equal i power
the national government should have supreme power over the states
that they should be able to declare any national law illegal
