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WorksheetsCivil War Test
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
Why did tariffs (taxes on imported/exported) goods cause division in the United States?
Nobody likes taxes
Tariff money was not divided up equally
The north hated tariffs
The north wanted tariffs and the south did not
What was ''Bleeding Kansas''?
A heavy metal band started by Abraham Lincoln
A new political party in the United States
The fight to decided if Kansas would be a slave or free state
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all people in the United States
Freed all slaves in southern held territory
Freed all slaves in the United States
Gave all former slaves 40 acres and a mule
Why did southerns fear Abraham Lincolns election?
He was a vampire slayer
He would make everyone Republican
He would unite the country
He would start to put an end to slavery
Which of the following reconstruction plans was easiest on the south?
Republican plan
Lincoln's plan
Johnson's plan
Vice President Calhoun resigned from office to lead the fight against the 1832 tariff.
True
False
Who was the Union General with capturing the southern city of Atlanta and dividing the south into two sections?
Grant
Sherman
Rosecrans
Johnston
What were advantages the north had during the Civil War over the south?
Better generals
More money
More factories
More farms
How many military districts did the First Reconstruction Act divided the south into after the Civil War
2
five
10
seven
President Johnson has an impeachment trial after he violated what law?
Command of Army Act
Tenure of Office Act
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Dred Scott decision said that slaves were property and could thus could not file a law suit.
False
True
This northern state was formed when five counties of a southern state decided to not secede and remain in the Union.
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
North Carolina
This battle marked the last time that the southern army was able to launch a major offensive into the north.
Antietam
Atlanta
Wilderness
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincolns plan for reconstruction was called the 25% plan
True (25% of southern voters had to take an oath of loyalty)
False (only 10% of voters had to take an oath of loyalty)
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States
Thriteenth
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
What famous actor killed Abraham Lincoln?
Jefferson Davis
Stephan Douglas
Chris Pratt
John Wilkes Booth
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse effectively ending the American Civil War.
False
True
This was the first state to secede from the United States.
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
South Carolina
Abraham Lincolns reconstruction policy was fairly EASY for the south to return to the Union.
True
False
What was the first battle of the America Civil War
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Fort Sumter
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Shrutte Farms
Why were republicans called radical during the reconstruction era?
They wanted to break away from the south and create their own country
They wanted to make a treaty giving Mexico the states of Texas and Lousiana
They wanted to take it really easy on the south after the war
they wanted to make it difficult for southern states to be readmitted to the Union
What battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River?
Wilderness
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Bull Run
How many combined soldiers died during the American Civil War?
600,000
100,000
900,000
300,000
Select all of the advantages the South had during the Civil War.
More money
Better generals
Defensive war
More factories
The British helped
The Confederate States of America consisted of five states that seceded from the Union.
True (they were Missouri, Kentucky, W. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware)
False (the Confederate States consisted of 11 southern states)
California became a free state with the help of the Compromise of 1850
True
False
Who won the American Civil War?
Union
North
South
Yankees
Confederates
