WorksheetsCivil War Torres
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 21mins
Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy. What positions did he hold, before being President of the Confederacy
Senator from Mississippi
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of War
Vice President to Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. What did congress try to do to him because of his Presidential Reconstruction plan?
Re-elect him for another term
impeach him
assassinate him
Ask him to become Republican
President from 1868-1876; Led the Union army to victory during the Civil War, but was not a very effective president
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Andrew Johnson
The Commanding General for the Confederate Army. Led Confederacy to early victories during the Civil War, despite having less men and supplies.
Robert E. Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
This Confederate General led confederate troops to victory at the battle of Bull Run. Died in the Civil War from friendly fire
Robert E. Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Led a march through with 60,000 Union soldiers. Using total warfare tactics, they left a path of destruction (including the burned remains of Atlanta).
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
George McClellan
What is the title of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, describing the horrible treatment of slaves.
The Liberator
Confessions of Nat Turner
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The North Star
Led one of the largest slave revolts in U.S. history. 50+ people murdered in South Hampton County Virginia
John Brown
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
This War led to new Southwestern territory in the U.S. It also led to a new debate over what territory should be slave or free
Civil War
Revolutionary War
Mexican American War
War of 1812
Supreme Court Case which ruled that slaves are property, and there for have no rights of a citizen in the U.S.
Brown vs. Board of Education
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Scott vs. Sanford
Bakke vs. California
When did Abraham Lincoln first get recognized for how he felt about slavery.
during the Civil War
during the presidential election of 1860
during the Illinois senate election of 1858
Fort Sumter was the first official battle of the Civil War. What state did it take place in?
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
The bloodiest single day of fighting during the Civil War took place at Antietam, Maryland where 23,000 casualties occurred. What famous document did Lincoln release after the battle?
Gettysburg Address
House Divided Speech
Emancipation Proclamation
This battle was attempting to take control of the Mississippi River. This Union victory would cut the Confederate forces in half.
Sherman's March
Vicksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Major battle that resulted in over 50,000 casualties. This union Victory is remembered as the turning point of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Antietam
What was the site of Robert E. Lee's Surrender to Ulysses S. Grant (marking the end of the Civil War).
Gettysburg Pennsylvania
Appomattox Courthouse Virginia
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Harpers Ferry Virginia
What was the name of the political group that wanted revenge against the South, after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Radical Republicans
Dueling Democrats
Rebelling Republicans
Thrashing Third Party
Historic Black college founded in 1867, that provided education to African American men in the fields of ministry and education
Howard
Morehouse Collge
Tuskegee
Florida A&M University
Grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
abolishes slavery in the United States
14th amendment
13th amendment
15th amendment
Grants African American men the right to vote
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
Laws created to limit the rights of African Americans in the South
Black codes
Reconstruction amendments
Ku Klux Klan
Southern Establishment Laws
select ALL types of assistance provided by the Freedman's Bureau
Food
Shelter
Education
Medical assistance
Which of the following plans focused on punishing the South for the Civil War
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
Civil Reconstruction
plan made in 1820, declared maine a free-state, and stated that all future states below the 36` 30` latitude line would be slave states.
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1877
3/5ths compromise
Reconstruction (assistance to rebuild the country after the Civil war), ended when this man became president in 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
James Buchanan
This compromise did the following:
*California is a free state
*New Mexico and Utah will use Popular Sovereignty
*Washington D.C. will ban the slave trade
*Strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
3/5ths Compromise
Compromise of 1877
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln states that the U.S. must do what, in order to truly honor fallen soldiers
end slavery
finish the war
find another president
give money to families of fallen soldiers
This man was hanged after attempting to raid the Harper's Ferry arsenal to arm slaves
Nat Turner
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Attica Fox
Former slave who made 19 trips to the north and freed over 300 slaves using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Angelina Grimke
Dredd Scott
To withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to.
Secede
Blockade
Sovereign
Freedmen
The effort, after the Civil War, to reorganize the seceded states and bring them back into the Union.
Reconstruction
Blockade
Conscription
Unionist
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Union and the Confederacy.
True
False
Which was true of Fredrick Douglass
He ran an abolitionists newspaper known as the North Star
He was the Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
He helped create the Underground Railroad
When the war began Lincoln's only concern was ___________.
ending slavery
getting reelected
punishing the south
preserving the Union
Poll taxes and Literacy Tests were used throughout the south in order to keep African Americans
from making a lot of money
from voting
from getting proper health care
from owning property
This picture, taken in the 1880s, is more than likely a picture of a _______________, which is what many, if not most African Americans in the south were at that time.
slave
indentured servant
share cropper
plantation owner
What ended the Reconstruction Era?
the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
the Compromise of 1877
Lincoln's assassination
Who had the early advantage of superior military leaders?
The South
The North
Eli Whitney's invention of _______________ lead to a significant increase in manufacturing
Cotton gin
interchangeable parts
share cropping
black codes
