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Civil War Test Review

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson earn his nickname?

a)

Alexandria

b)

Bull Run (or Manassas)

c)

Norfolk

d)

Hampton

2.

During the 1820's, what did northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?

a)

new states

b)

slave states

c)

free states

d)

old states

3.

What city was burned at the end of the Civil War?

a)

Washington

b)

Norfolk

c)

Richmond

d)

Alexandria

4.

Where did Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia defeat Union troops?

a)

Fredericksburg

b)

Bull Run

c)

Alexandria

d)

Hampton Roads

5.

After the secession of Virginia, where was the Confederate capital?

a)

Richmond

b)

Manassas

c)

Montgomery

d)

Atlanta

6.

Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry, tried to start a slave rebellion, was captured and hung?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

John Brown

7.

What is a good title for this chart?

a)

How West Virginia Became a State

b)

Why the South Joined the Civil War

c)

Differences Between the North and the South

d)

Why the North Won the Civil War

8.

Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the “Underground Railroad”?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

John Brown

9.

Which state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?

a)

North Carolina

b)

Tennessee

c)

West Virginia

d)

Maryland

10.

Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

John Brown

11.

What is the correct order for this list?

a)

1, 2, 3

b)

2, 3, 1

c)

3, 2, 1

d)

2, 1, 3

12.

Who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Robert E. Lee

13.

West Virginia separated from Virginia because of different opinions about -

a)

Slavery

b)

Religion

c)

Coal Mining

d)

Foreign Trade

14.

Which event occurred at Appomattox Court House?

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

Which effect best replaces the question mark?

a)

sends troops to New York

b)

decides to end slavery

c)

writes a new constitution

d)

votes to leave the Union

16.

Which city on the map is nearest to a battle between ironclads?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

17.

Which group would most likely have supported this type of meeting?

a)

Industrialists

b)

Abolitionists

c)

Plantation Owners

d)

Confederate Soldiers

18.

During the Civil War, which group did this work for the Confederate states?

a)

New European Immigrants

b)

Native Americans

c)

Southern Abolitionists

d)

Enslaved African Americans

19.

Which newspaper headline describes the results of the battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor?

a)
b)
c)
d)