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The Civil War 2022

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What battle was the turning point in the war?

a)

Bull Run

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Vicksburg

d)

Gettysburg

2.

In what battle did the North win because they controlled the high ground?

a)

Vicksburg

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Fort Sumter

d)

Bull Run

3.

In what battle did the North divide the south by taking control of the Mississippi River?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Bull Run

d)

Manassas

4.

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

a)

Manassas

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Vicksburg

5.

What was the first major battle of the war?

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Bull Run

6.

What three ports did the Union block?

a)

Savannah, Georgia

b)

New Orleans, Louisiana

c)

Charleston, South Carolina

d)

Manassas, Virginia

7.

What two southern cities were burned during the war?

a)

Atlanta

b)

Washington

c)

Manassas

d)

Richmond

8.

Who believed force should be used to keep the Union together?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Stonewall Jackson

9.

Who opposed secession but didn't believe force should be used to make the states return to the Union?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E. Lee

10.

Where did the Civil War end?

a)

Richmond

b)

Washington

c)

Appomattox

d)

Manassas

11.

Which Civil War nurse created the American Red Cross?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Phyllis Wheatly

d)

Clara Barton

12.

Who urged southerns to accept defeat and reunite as Americans?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Frederick Douglass

13.

Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Ulysses S Grant

14.

Which state held the capital of the Confederacy?

a)

Washington

b)

Virginia

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Mississippi

15.

Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Robert E Lee

16.

While men were fighting, women were responsible for

a)

running businesses and plantations

b)

keeping supply lines open between the troops

c)

notifying the government of escaped slaves

d)

fighting in the war with the men

17.

Who was a slave who sailed to freedom and later became a United States Congressman after the war?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Robert Smalls

18.

The North liked tariffs because

a)

they protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition

b)

they protected large landowners and their cash crops

c)

they wanted the national government to be strong

d)

each state should be able to make their own laws

19.

The South believed that

a)

slavery should be abolished for moral reasons

b)

the national and state governments should be equal i power

c)

the national government should have supreme power over the states

d)

that they should be able to declare any national law illegal