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Civil War

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the northern states called?

a)

Libertarians

b)

Confederacy

c)

Union

d)

Blues

2.

What were the southern states called?

a)

Libertarians

b)

Union

c)

Blues

d)

Confederacy

3.

Where did the Civil War start?

a)

Richmond, Virginia

b)

Charleston, South Carolina

c)

Atlanta, Georgia

d)

Raleigh, North Carolina

4.

What year did the Civil War begin?

a)

1861

b)

1850

c)

1776

d)

1865

5.

What fort did General Beauregard fire upon to start the Civil War?

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Fort Collins

c)

Fort Ord

d)

Alamo

6.

When did the last Confederate Army surrender? When did the war end?

a)

1776

b)

1861

c)

1865

d)

1812

7.

Who was elected president of the United States in 1860?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Abraham Lincoln

8.

What was the South’s main source of income?

a)

Peanuts

b)

Cotton

c)

Manufacturing

d)

Slaves

9.

What was the North’s main source of income?

a)

Peanuts

b)

Cotton

c)

Manufacturing

d)

Slaves

10.

What was the first southern state to secede (leave) from the United States?

a)

Georgia

b)

North Carolina

c)

South Carolina

d)

Alabama

11.

Who was the General-In-Chief of the Union army at the start of the war?

a)

George Sherman

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Winfield Scott

12.

What was the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. , leaving 23,000 dead?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Second Battle of Bull Run

d)

First Battle of Bull Run

13.

What document stated, “Slaves of any state shall be forever free”?

a)

U.S. Constitution

b)

Freedom Pact

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

14.

Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Benjamin Butler

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

15.

What speech starts with, “Four score and seven years ago...”?

a)

Gettysburg Address

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Vicksburg Address

d)

Antietam Speech

16.

Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Edward Everett

d)

Abraham Lincoln

17.

What were farms in the south called?

a)

Plantations

b)

Gardens

c)

Fields

d)

Farms

18.

What was the time after the Civil freed slaves were given rights?

a)

Abolishment

b)

Reconstruction

c)

Suffrage

d)

Amendment

19.

What killed the most men in the Civil War?

a)

Battle

b)

Disease

c)

Murder

d)

Gunfire

20.

Where did Robert E. Lee to terms of surrender?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Appomattox Court House

c)

Little Big Top

d)

Vicksburg Court House

21.

What amendment was added to the Constitution that freed slaves?

a)

5th

b)

13th

c)

19th

d)

18th

22.

Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

a)

Appomattox Court House

b)

White House

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Ford’s Theater

23.

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

a)

Tommy Lee Jones

b)

John Wilkes Booth

c)

Son of Sam

d)

Lee Harvey Oswald