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WorksheetsBSP 8 Civil war (1861-1865) Practice Quiz # 2
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 17mins
The tactics that Sherman used against Confederate armies in the South were based on what strategy?
Cutting off troops from their officers
Naval blockade of southern ports
Destroying the South’s resources and economy
Hit-and-run attacks on southern cities
The Battle of Gettysburg was an important battle of the Civil War because
It was an overwhelming Confederate victory.
The Union army’s advance on the Confederate capital was stopped.
It was a turning point that ended the Confederates hopes of advancing into the north.
It enabled the Union to control the Mississippi River for the rest of the war.
Which of the following best describes the Emancipation Proclamation?
It discouraged enslaved Africans from escaping.
It gave full control of slavery to the federal government.
It had an immediate effect on abolishing slavery.
It freed slaves in the Confederate south.
Overall command of the Confederate army during most of the Civil War was held by
Jefferson Davis
William Tecumseh Sherman
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Robert E. Lee
Which of the following African American units played a key role in the attack on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner?
the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
29th Connecticut Volunteer Cavalry
the 8th Kansas Colored Heavy Artillery
100th Tennessee Colored Infantry
What were two kinds of technology that were used during the Civil War? Explain how both of them affected the war?
What were some effects of the Civil War? Provide a political, social and economic effect.
From 1863 until the end of the War, who was the Union General in charge of the U.S. army?
Robert E. Lee
George Washington
"Stonewall" Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
Where does General Lee surrender to General Grant?
Gettysburg
Appomattox
Savannah
Antietam
Why is the Civil War considered the first modern War?
new technology led to better weapons
lower rates of death among the troops
last time soldiers were drafted into the army
first time each side kept prisoners of war
The surrender of General Lee's army took place at Appomattox Court House on April 9th 1865. General Grant and the Union army chose forgiving or easy terms of surrender to General Lee and the Confederates. The surrender terms said that the Confederates needed to promise not to take up arms against the U.S again, and give their weapons, cannons and public property to the Union. Officers were able to keep their personal weapons and horses.
Grant explained to his men that now that the war was over, uniting the country back was the most important thing. Grant and Lee had been fighting for over three years, and both of them had lost tens of thousands of soldiers.
According to this passage, what kind of terms of surrender did Grant offer Lee and the Confederate army?
Extremely harsh terms of surrender for most of the soldiers
Leaders of the Confederacy would be executed in one month
Forgiving terms of surrender for the Confederacy
Confederate soldiers had to give up all of their weapons and property
All of these were hardships experienced by soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts Regiment EXCEPT
In the beginning they were not given any combat assignments
They received less pay than their white counterparts
Difficult drilling and training
They never received their Union army uniforms
