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Civil War

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where were the first shots fired during the Civil War?

a)

Bull Run

b)

Shiloh

c)

Antietam

d)

Fort Sumter

2.

Who was the President during the Civil War?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Thomas Jefferson

3.

Who was the South's general?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Clara Barton

4.

Who was the North's general?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Clara Barton

5.

What does the 13th Ammendment say?

a)

you can not have civil wars

b)

slavery is illegal

c)

the South has to pay for damages

d)

taxes are illegal

6.

Why was Gettysburg such an imprtant battle?

a)

It was the last battle of the war.

b)

It was the first battle of the war.

c)

It stopped Grant's invasion of the South.

d)

It stopped Lee's advance into the North

7.

Which of the following was not part of the Anaconda Plan?

a)

blockade of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts

b)

attack of the Confederacy from the North

c)

capturing territory along the Mississippi River

d)

attack of the Confederacy from the East and West

8.

Why was slavery important to the South?

a)

It kept African Americand from voting

b)

It was profitable for the southern economy

c)

It allowed plantation owners to work in factories

9.

Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

all slaves

b)

slaves in border states

c)

slaves in the Confederacy

d)

slaves in the Union

10.

What was the leading cause of death during the Civil War?

a)

being shot

b)

infection

c)

starvation

d)

other battle wounds

11.

What battle led to Britain ending it's support of Union forces?

a)

Bull Run

b)

Antietam

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Vicksburg

12.

What term describes Sherman's March to the Sea?

a)

blockade

b)

draft

c)

total war

d)

sectionalism

13.

What were Confederate soldiers allowed to keep after Lee's surrender?

a)

their food supplies

b)

weapons belonging to the Confederate Army

c)

their horses and personal weapons

14.

Had many factories

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

15.

Had many railroads

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

16.

Had lots of farmland and plenty of food

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

17.

Wanted to secede and form their own country

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

18.

Had trained military leaders and more military school

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

19.

Wore blue uniforms into battle

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

20.

More American soldiers died during the Civil War than any other war.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Andrew Jackson became president after Abraham Lincoln was assasinated?

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Abolitionists wanted slavery.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Gettysburg was a very short speech.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Most battles during the war were fought in the South.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Enslaved African American who claimed he was free because he had lived in a free state

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Dredd Scott

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Clara Barton

27.

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Dredd Scott

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

28.

Civil War Nurse who founded the Red Cross

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Dredd Scott

29.

Former slave who became a writer and abolitionist

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Dredd Scott

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

30.

Abolitionist who led many people to freedom along the Underground Railroad

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Dredd Scott

d)

Harriet Tubman

31.

California became a free state and the Figitive Slave Law was pass.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

32.

Territories above a certain line could become free states and those below the line would be slave states.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

33.

Said each new state could decide if they were a slave state or free state

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

34.

What state was the first to secede from the Union?

a)

Virginia

b)

South Carolina

c)

North Carolina

d)

Georgia