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Civil War Vocabulary

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was created to keep balance between slave states and free states?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Anaconda Plan

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

2.

Following this deal, California was added as a free state to the Union and the Fugitive Slave Law was strengthened.

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Secession

c)

3/5 Compromise

d)

Missouri Compromise

3.

Southern states that seceded from the United States.

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

4.

Northern states that the United States of America.

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

5.

The Election of (a)   , Abraham Lincoln was elected for the first time and Southerners vowed to leave the Union.

6.

What was the first battle of the civil war which was a Confederate victory.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Appomattox

d)

Fort Sumter

7.

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Antietam

c)

Bull Run

d)

Fort Sumter

8.

Marked the end of the Civil War and the place where Lee surrendered to Grant.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Appomattox

c)

Antietam

d)

Bull Run

9.

Significant battle that was a Union victory and stopped the South from invading the North.

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Bull Run

c)

Fort Sumter

d)

Antietam

10.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all ______ from states in ______ in the Confederacy.

a)

free, Union

b)

slaves, the Union

c)

immigrants, North

d)

slaves, rebellion

11.

What plan was created by General Winfield Scott to surround the South to cut off supplies from the Confederacy?

(a)