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Chapter 7 Civil War Test Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An abolitionist is-

a)

a person who works for others against their will

b)

a person who is in favor of slavery

c)

a person who works to end slavery

d)

a person who has fought in a war

2.

Choose the TWO battles that were won by the Confederacy

a)

First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

b)

Battle of Fredericksburg

c)

Battle of Hampton Roads

d)

Battle of Richmond

3.

Who was seeking freedom and chose to follow the Union Army and even fight for them?

a)

American Indians

b)

White Men

c)

Women

d)

Enslaved African Americans

4.

The economy in the ______ relied on slave labor.

a)

North

b)

East

c)

South

d)

West

5.

The battle between two ironclad ships, the Monitor and the Merrimack took place where?

a)

along the river in Richmond, VA

b)

beside the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg

c)

near Virginia waters around Norfolk and Hampton

d)

on the Potomac River near Alexandria

6.

What major event happened in 1860, BEFORE the Civil War started?

a)

General Lee surrendered

b)

First Battle of Bull Run was a Confederate Victory

c)

Abraham Lincoln was elected president

7.

What major event happened at the START of the Civil War?

a)

General Lee surrenders

b)

First Battle of Bull Run is a Confederate victory

c)

Abraham Lincoln is elected president

8.

What major event happened at the END of the Civil War?

a)

General Lee surrenders

b)

First Battle of Bull Run is a Confederate victory

c)

Abraham Lincoln is elected president

9.

Who commanded the Army of Norther Virginia (part of the Confederacy)?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

Nat Turner

10.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

A train that enslaved African Americans could ride to freedom

b)

Secret routes that enslaved African Americans used to gain freedom

c)

An underground tunnel for enslaved African Americans to get to Canada

d)

Secret routes used by southern slave catchers in search of runaway slaves

11.

What was the cause of the sea battle between the two ironclad ships, the Merrimac and the Monitor?

a)

Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

b)

President Lincoln used the Union Navy to blockade southern ports.

c)

President Lincoln was assassinated.

d)

President Lincoln abolished slavery.

12.

Ulysses S. Grant marched with his Union soldiers into a burning _____, at the END of the war.

a)

Jamestown

b)

Williamsburg

c)

Richmond

d)

Manassas

13.

What did Nat Turner do?

a)

A revolt against slavery in Virginia

b)

A raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

14.

What did John Brown do?

a)

A raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

b)

A revolt against slavery in Virginia

15.

Who defeated the Union troops at the Battle of Fredericksburg?

a)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Robert E. Lee

16.

Why did some southern states secede from the Union and form the Confederate States of America?

a)

Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

b)

Jefferson Davis was elected president.

c)

They lost the Civil War.

d)

They thought the North was mean.

17.

The women pictured here is known for what?

a)

writing an abolitionist newspaper in Canada

b)

supporting the continued enslavement of African Americans

c)

helping enslaved African Americans escape to freedom

d)

being the personal slave of the Confederate president

18.

Slavery was not popular in the _____ because it was mostly filled with factories and small businesses.

a)

North

b)

East

c)

South

d)

West

19.

What number shows the capital of the Confederacy?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

20.

The _____ won the Civil War.

a)

North

b)

East

c)

South

d)

West

21.

Stonewall Jackson played an important role in which battle? (He got shot and kept fighting.)

a)

Fredericksburg

b)

First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

c)

Richmond

d)

Appomattox Court House

22.

The ________ relied on enslaved African Americans to raise crops and provide labor for the army.

a)

Union

b)

Loyalists

c)

Confederacy

d)

Neutral

23.

Where is Hapers Ferry located NOW on the map?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

24.

Who did not take sides during the Civil War?

a)

Many American Indians

b)

Most White Virginians

c)

Some free African Americans

25.

Disagreements and conflict between the Western and Eastern counties in Virginia led to what?

a)

an emergency meeting of the General Assembly

b)

the secession with the Virginia joining the Union

c)

moving the capital from Richmond to Charleston

d)

the creation of West Virginia

26.

Who surrendered to the Union General, Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War in April 1865?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

Nat Turner

27.

What was the first major clash, or battle of the Civil War?

a)

Hampton Roads

b)

Gettysburg

c)

First Battle of Bull Run

d)

Harpers Ferry

28.

Who was captured and hanged after they started to start a slave rebellion in Hapers Ferry?

a)

John Brown

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Abraham Lincoln

29.

According to the map, in which Virginia region did the South surrender to the North ending the Civil War?

a)

Coastal Plain

b)

Piedmont

c)

Valley and Ridge

d)

Blue Ridge Mountains

30.

How long did the Civil War last?

a)

7 years

b)

50 years

c)

2 years

d)

4 years