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Civil War Test

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why did tariffs (taxes on imported/exported) goods cause division in the United States?

a)

Nobody likes taxes

b)

Tariff money was not divided up equally

c)

The north hated tariffs

d)

The north wanted tariffs and the south did not

2.

What was ''Bleeding Kansas''?

a)

A heavy metal band started by Abraham Lincoln

b)

A new political party in the United States

c)

The fight to decided if Kansas would be a slave or free state

3.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

Freed all people in the United States

b)

Freed all slaves in southern held territory

c)

Freed all slaves in the United States

d)

Gave all former slaves 40 acres and a mule

4.

Why did southerns fear Abraham Lincolns election?

a)

He was a vampire slayer

b)

He would make everyone Republican

c)

He would unite the country

d)

He would start to put an end to slavery

5.

Which of the following reconstruction plans was easiest on the south?

a)

Republican plan

b)

Lincoln's plan

c)

Johnson's plan

6.

Vice President Calhoun resigned from office to lead the fight against the 1832 tariff.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Who was the Union General with capturing the southern city of Atlanta and dividing the south into two sections?

a)

Grant

b)

Sherman

c)

Rosecrans

d)

Johnston

8.

What were advantages the north had during the Civil War over the south?

a)

Better generals

b)

More money

c)

More factories

d)

More farms

9.

How many military districts did the First Reconstruction Act divided the south into after the Civil War

a)

2

b)

five

c)

10

d)

seven

10.

President Johnson has an impeachment trial after he violated what law?

a)

Command of Army Act

b)

Tenure of Office Act

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Kansas Nebraska Act

11.

The Dred Scott decision said that slaves were property and could thus could not file a law suit.

a)

False

b)

True

12.

This northern state was formed when five counties of a southern state decided to not secede and remain in the Union.

a)

Missouri

b)

Kentucky

c)

West Virginia

d)

North Carolina

13.

This battle marked the last time that the southern army was able to launch a major offensive into the north.

a)

Antietam

b)

Atlanta

c)

Wilderness

d)

Gettysburg

14.

Abraham Lincolns plan for reconstruction was called the 25% plan

a)

True (25% of southern voters had to take an oath of loyalty)

b)

False (only 10% of voters had to take an oath of loyalty)

15.

Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States

a)

Thriteenth

b)

Fourteenth

c)

Fifteenth

16.

What famous actor killed Abraham Lincoln?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Stephan Douglas

c)

Chris Pratt

d)

John Wilkes Booth

17.

General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse effectively ending the American Civil War.

a)

False

b)

True

18.

This was the first state to secede from the United States.

a)

North Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

South Carolina

19.

Abraham Lincolns reconstruction policy was fairly EASY for the south to return to the Union.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What was the first battle of the America Civil War

a)

Battle of Vicksburg

b)

Battle of Fort Sumter

c)

Battle of the Wilderness

d)

Battle of Shrutte Farms

21.

Why were republicans called radical during the reconstruction era?

a)

They wanted to break away from the south and create their own country

b)

They wanted to make a treaty giving Mexico the states of Texas and Lousiana

c)

They wanted to take it really easy on the south after the war

d)

they wanted to make it difficult for southern states to be readmitted to the Union

22.

What battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River?

a)

Wilderness

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Bull Run

23.

How many combined soldiers died during the American Civil War?

a)

600,000

b)

100,000

c)

900,000

d)

300,000

24.

Select all of the advantages the South had during the Civil War.

a)

More money

b)

Better generals

c)

Defensive war

d)

More factories

e)

The British helped

25.

The Confederate States of America consisted of five states that seceded from the Union.

a)

True (they were Missouri, Kentucky, W. Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware)

b)

False (the Confederate States consisted of 11 southern states)

26.

California became a free state with the help of the Compromise of 1850

a)

True

b)

False

27.

Who won the American Civil War?

a)

Union

b)

North

c)

South

d)

Yankees

e)

Confederates