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MJ Cycle 1 Civil War Test

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This newspaper editor interviewed soldiers during the Civil War?

a)

Harry Greenman

b)

Horace Greeley

c)

Horatio Gates

d)

Herman Gerving

2.

Civil War word for quick retreat, usually in fear.

a)

Flee

b)

Skedaddle

c)

Tuck tail

d)

Charge

3.

First state to secede from the union was

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Alabama

d)

Florida

4.

The new Rebel Government's official name?

a)

The federal states of the South.

b)

The Confederate States of Africa

c)

The Confederate States of America

d)

The United States of America

5.

The one and only Confederate President?

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Martin Luther King

d)

John F Kennedy

6.

The first shots of the civil war occurred here

a)

Bull Run

b)

Manassas Junction

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Fort Sumter

7.

Which state is not a border state

a)

Missouri

b)

Kentucky

c)

Kansas

d)

Maryland

8.

Lincolns constitutional power to to make war decisions

a)

Martial Law

b)

Powers of the King

c)

Presidential control

d)

Commander-in -Chief

9.

General Winfield Scott was replaced by ______________ after the loss at Bull Run.

a)

George B McClellan

b)

Robert E Lee

c)

Ulysses Grant

d)

Luke Combs

10.

Who won the first major pitched battle

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

c)

It was a tie

d)

England

11.

A tedious task all soldiers went through to get in shape and become an organized unit in the Civil War.

a)

Tryouts

b)

Marching

c)

Drilling

d)

Boot Camp

12.

Famous southern general that held fast at the center of the Battle of Bull Run.

a)

Joseph Johnson

b)

Thomas Jackson

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Forrest Gump

13.

This capital was only 30 miles away from Bull Run/Manassas Junction?

a)

Richmond, VA

b)

Washington DC

c)

Philadelphia, PE

d)

Lansing, MI

14.

What would the South have said the Civil war was about in 1861?

a)

British and French Interference

b)

State Rights/Gaining independance

c)

Slavery and the North trying to force them to give up their slaves.

d)

All of the above

15.

Which state does was not in the CSA?

a)

Texas

b)

Florida

c)

Georgia

d)

Missouri

16.

Which side had more factories

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

17.

Which side had more people?

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

18.

Which society had more more railroads?

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

19.

Which side had more agricultural land?

a)

UNION

b)

CONFEDERACY

20.

Which general was not a Confederate General?

a)

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

b)

Joseph Johnston

c)

George B McClellan

d)

Robert E Lee

21.

This is a person who is not in the military...

a)

civilian

b)

Soldier

c)

indigenous

d)

sharecropper

22.
The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out.
a)
Blockade
b)
Embargo
c)
Tariff
d)
Sectionalism
23.

Required all able-bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve for three years in the military

a)

draft or conscription

b)

ironclad

c)

border states

d)

resistance

24.

A northern Democrat that wanted peace

a)
greenback
b)

Copperhead

c)

General McDowell

d)

Activist

25.

The South usually named the battle after

a)

Famous People

b)

Nearby Creeks

c)

Towns close to the battle

d)

Their hometowns that were important to them

26.

To join the army or military-

a)

enlist

b)

siege

c)

amendment

d)

impeachment

27.

A person who wants to end slavery.

a)

carpetbagger

b)

Unionist

c)

confederate

d)

abolitionist

28.
American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
a)
Angelina Grimke
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Sojourner Truth
29.

A person killed, wounded, captured, or missing during the war.

a)

Casualty

b)

Cavalry

c)

Enlisted

d)

Blockade

30.
A settlement of differences between two or more sides reached by each side giving up some of what it wanted
a)
ratify
b)
The Neill/Schenk Strategy
c)
compromise
d)
New Deal
31.

This side had better leaders

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

32.

The practice of military movements

a)

Marching

b)

Drilling

c)

Boot Camp

d)

PT

33.

Name of the song we play to start the day.

a)

Rebelle

b)

Reveille

c)

Jubalee

d)

Reneille

34.

The record keeper in your group

a)

Colonel

b)

Argutant

c)

Adjutant

d)

Administrator