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Worksheet time: 37mins
Which one of the following was NOT a cause of the Civil War?
Farming
Slavery
State's Rights
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Missouri Compromise said:
Missouri could join the Union as a slave state, Maine would join as a free state.
States north of the Mason-Dixon line would be slave states, states south of the line would be free.
Missouri could join the Union as a free state, Maine would join as a slave state.
None of these
Which act allowed the people in each territory to vote on allowing slavery?
Compromise of 1850
Texas-New Mexico Act
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Plantations and small farms, slave labor, and cash crops are examples of the geographic and economic factors of this region.
North
South
Which of the following placed an invisible line between free and slave territories?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which of the following was one of the effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska were united into one territory
It gave territories north of the line created in the Missouri Compromise the right to have slaves.
Banned slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska
Slaves who escaped slavery had to be returned to slavery.
Why was popular sovereignty important in the Civil War?
People could make political decisions for themselves.
To vote, you could send a letter of who you wanted to vote for
All new states entering the US had to be free states.
Congress could determine if the state, in which you're living, was going to be a slave state or a free state.
This law said that the Kansas and Nebraska territories could decide if they wanted to be a slave state or free state.
Fugitive Slave Act
Bleeding Kansas
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Commonly, the Union soldiers uniforms were...
Red
Gray
Brown
Blue
Commonly, the Confederate soldiers uniforms were...
Red
Brown
Gray
Blue
Abraham Lincoln guided the United States through which war?
China War
Civil War
World War II
English War
What did the Emancipation Proclamation end in the United States?
laws
debt
slavery
war
Which of the following was the first major land battle during the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
The Battle of Bull Run
Gettysburg
Who was 18th President of the United States and the lead general of the Union during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S Grant
Andrew Johnson
Robert E Lee
Who was the Commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E Lee
Mrs. Mattox
Ulysses S Grant
Where did General Robert E Lee surrender?
The White House
Kennesaw Mountain
AppoMATTOX Court House
Fort Sumter
What was the Battle of the Ironclads?
The first battle of the Civil War.
Sherman's march to the sea.
The battle between Iron Man and Iron Monger.
The first battle involving naval warships.
John Brown led a raid on the United States Armory at _____, West Virginia in 1859.
Howardville
Harpers Ferry
Charleston
Virginia seceded from the Union along with other southern states to form the ______.
Union States of America
Confederate States Of America
Confederate Union
This slave sued his master for his freedom after residing in a free state for an extended period of time.
Rosa Parks
Dred Scott
Harriet Tubman
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A slave owner
A conductor for the underground railroad
First female president
A confederate Soldier
Why do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so powerful?
It told the horrors of slavery.
It discussed Abraham Lincoln's road to the White House.
The book criticized the North for owning slaves.
The book criticized California for entering the Union as a slave state.
What did the Revolutionary War and the Civil War have in common?
Both wars ended in Virginia
The same armies fought in each war
The British lost both wars
Both wars began in the same city
Sherman and his troops headed to Savannah after capturing Atlanta, using total war along the way. This was called ______.
First shots fired at Fort Sumter
The surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Sherman's March to the Sea
Battle of Gettysburg
Congress created this organization, which gave food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites. It also set up hospitals, schools, and jobs for many people.
United Nations
Congress
US Postal Service
Freedmen's Bureau
This abolitionist raided Harper's Ferry in an attempt to steal weapons from the federal armory. He wanted to arm the slaves and freedom fighters in the war against the south.
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Ulysses S Grant
Dred Scott
What was Elizabeth Cady Stanton known for?
Abolition
Woman's suffrage movement
Women's rights
All of the above.
This movement demanded a woman's right to vote in America. The Constitution was ratified in 1920 to include this right in the 19th amendment. This is known as ______.
Emancipation Proclamation
Woman's suffrage
abolition
States' rights, the election of Abraham Lincoln, farming economy in the south and the need for slave labor, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Secession were all causes of _____.
the Civil War
The Indian Removal Act
the French and Indian War
the Women's Suffrage Movement
What were some of the effects of the Civil War?
Slavery still allowed in the southern states, Hawaii became the 40th state, the southern states seceding from the Union
Donald Trump becoming president, the invention of the airplane, the Emancipation Proclamation, women's suffrage
Loss of many lives, Emancipation Proclamation, Reconstruction, the division of Virginia - making West Virginia the 35th state
Who was president of the Confederate States?
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E Lee
In May 1864, Union soldiers marched into Georgia. The Confederates fought back all summer. This was called _____.
Battle of Gettysburg
Stone Mountain Battle
the Atlanta Campaign
Mayor Andrew Young Campaign
This person was a General in the Union army, during the Civil War. He was a large part of why the Union won the Civil War.
Robert E Lee
William T Sherman
Harriet Tubman
Mrs. Roy
This person was a General in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He got his nickname, "Stonewall" from standing his ground "like a stone wall" during the Battle of Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln
William T Sherman
Thomas Jackson
Ms. Miltenis
Some effects of the Civil War on the North and the South were _____.
the economy in the north grew, while the economy in the south suffered, people in the south had to rebuild, the north had a great deal of war debt.
slavery prospered, Lincoln was president for another 4 years after the Civil war, the north's economy grew
land in the south was destroyed, but the south's economy grew, George Washington was elected president
