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Civil War Quiz #1

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This was the first major land battle in the Civil War.

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Shiloh

d)

Antietam

2.

This was the first battle in the Civil War.

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Shiloh

d)

Antietam

3.

This battle proved the Union would do anything to keep the United States as one country.

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Shiloh

d)

Antietam

4.

This battle was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War.

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Shiloh

d)

Antietam

5.

The South officially surrendered in the city of

a)

Richmond

b)

Washington D.C.

c)

Appomattox

d)

Philadelphia

6.

This compromise allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

7.

This compromise created the Fugitive Slave Law.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

8.

This compromise repealed the Missouri Compromise.

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Free Soil Party

9.

This compromise established that no slave states would be allowed in land that was north of modern day Oklahoma.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

10.

This compromise allowed Maine to enter the United States as a free state.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

11.

This compromise allowed states to vote on the issue of allowing or outlawing slavery in their state.

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

12.

A popular newspaper that favored the abolition (outlawing) of slavery.

a)

Freedom Press

b)

Abolitionist

c)

The Liberator

d)

Liberty Times

13.

A person who was against slavery in the 1800s.

a)

Abolitionist

b)

Confederate Rebel

c)

Johnny Red

d)

Dixie

14.

This slave was captured in the northern states and was forced to return to the South.

a)

John Brown

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Frederick Douglas

15.

To remove oneself from an organization

a)

secede

b)

filibuster

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

Liberty

16.

A government that is ruled by the people and government authority is chosen by the people.

a)

tyranny

b)

popular sovereignty

c)

Taxation

d)

abolitionist

17.

This Confederate general surrendered to the North in 1865

a)

Stonewall Jackson

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

George McClellan

d)

J.E.B. Stuart