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Civil War

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

a)

Union Military Commander

b)

President of the Confederate States

c)

Enslaved Solider

d)

Confederate General

2.

What did the 13th amendment do?

a)

Give freedom of speech

b)

Abolished slavery

c)

Gave right to bare arms

d)

prohibited equal rights

3.

Who was Jefferson Davis?

a)

Enslaved Solider

b)

Union President

c)

Confederate President

d)

British Solider

4.

Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin significant?

a)

It told the ancestry of the King.

b)

It tells why the civil war happened.

c)

Because Harriet Tubman wrote it.

d)

It gave insight to what slaves went through.

5.

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott decision?

a)

Slaves are people.

b)

Slaves can not live alone.

c)

Slaves are now free.

d)

Slaves aren't people.

6.

Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Fredrick Douglas

7.

What was the outcome of the Missouri Compromise

a)

The Mason Dixon line

b)

Slavery ended

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Declaration of Independence

8.

Who was president during the entire civil war?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

George Washington

9.

Who said "of the people, by the people, and for the people"?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Jefferson Davis

10.

How did the Civil War affect women?

a)

They had to join the military

b)

Had to give away their kids

c)

Had to manage the homes with scarce resources

d)

Had to pay

11.

What was Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction?

a)

Slaves count as 10% of a person

b)

Slave owners had to give away 10% of their land

c)

10% of voters in that state had to pledge loyalty to the United States government.

d)

There was a 10% tax to own slaves

12.

Who is this?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

George Washington

d)

Fredrick Douglas

13.

What is the 14th amendment?

a)

Gave slaves voting rights

b)

Abolished slavery

c)

Prohibited people from denying slaves equal rights

d)

Created the Mason Dixon lines

14.

What is the 15th Amendment?

a)

Voting was guaranteed to everyone

b)

Freedom of Speech

c)

Right to bare arms

d)

Freedom to own slaves

15.

What was the outcome of the Battle at Gettysburg?

a)

Union Victory and was a turning point in the Civil War

b)

Confederate Victory and was a turning point in the Civil War

c)

A draw and started the Civil War

d)

Union Victory and started the Civil War

16.

What year was Abraham Lincoln elected?

a)

1860

b)

1760

c)

1867

d)

1865

17.

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender?

a)

Texas

b)

St. Johns Church

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

New York

18.

What speech did Lincoln give after the Battle of Gettysburg?

a)

Gettysburg Address

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

Declaration of Independence

19.

What was Reconstruction?

a)

The union states trying to reconstruct their factories.

b)

Period where farmers had to reconstruct their barns.

c)

An official document.

d)

Period after the war where the government tried to reunite America.

20.

"In your hands my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war." was said by who?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Washington

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

21.

Which document happened during reconstruction?

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

The Constitution

c)

10% Plan

d)

Bill of Rights

22.

"With malice towards none, with charity for all...to bind up the nations wounds.." was a part of what?

a)

Constitution

b)

10% Plan

c)

Monroe Doctrine

d)

13th Amendment

23.

Why did many African American fight in the war?

a)

For freedom

b)

New slave owners

c)

New plantations

d)

New homes

24.

Who believed secession was illegal?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Washington

c)

Obama

d)

Jefferson Davis

25.

Who is this?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Obama

d)

Robert E. Lee