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Mrs. Hart's Civil War Quiz

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Causes of the Civil War

a)

States' Rights, Bleeding Kansas, 1860 Election of President Lincoln

b)

many casualties, ironclad ships, Emancipation Proclamation

c)

blockades, enlist, Rebels and Yankees

d)

Lincoln Memorial, new amendments, suffering

2.

Effects of the Civil War

a)

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

b)

secession

3.

abolitionist

a)

a monument built in honor of someone

b)

suffer patiently

c)

to give up or quit

d)

a person who felt slavery was evil and wrong

4.

states' rights

a)

an article added to the U.S. Constitution

b)

the rights and powers held by individual states

c)

to withdraw or break away from the whole

d)

join the military

5.

Another name for the Northern States is what?

(a)  

6.

Another name for the Confederacy is what?

(a)  

7.

blockade

a)

to give up or quit

b)

a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out

c)

a ship covered in iron plates

d)

a large number of people that share a common history, culture, or language

8.

Who was the Confederate General who stood his ground like a stone wall?

a)

John Brown

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

d)

Frederick Douglass

9.

Who was a Civil War nurse and then later started the American Red Cross?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

John Wilkes Booth

10.

Who killed President Lincoln?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

John Wilkes Booth

11.

Who was the Confederate General who surrendered to the Union Army?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

John Brown

12.

abolitionist and author of the novel - Uncle Tom's Cabin

a)

John Brown

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

William Sherman

d)

Clara Barton

13.

Union General

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Buffalo Bill Cody

c)

Jesse James

d)

Robert E. Lee

14.

A radical abolitionist who attacked the Harper's Ferry Arsenal

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

John Wilkes Booth

c)

John Brown

d)

Kit Carson

15.

President of the Confederacy

a)

Franklin Pierce

b)

Stonewall Jackson

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

16.

The most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

a)

John Brown

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

17.

Nation

a)

a large number of people that share a common history, culture, or language

b)

the rights and powers held by individual U.S. states

c)

an article added to the U.S. Constitution

d)

to withdraw or break away

18.

Lincoln Memorial

a)

A monument in Illinois

b)

a tree in Kentucky near his birthplace

c)

a monument in Washington D.C. built in honor of President Lincoln

d)

a battleship dedicated to Lincoln after the war

19.

enlist

a)

join the military

b)

suffer patiently

c)

to give up or quit

d)

discharge

20.

ironclad

a)

an iron covered train car

b)

a horse covered in armor

c)

a ship covered in iron plates so it could withstand canon attacks

d)

an iron covered wagon

21.

surrender

a)

suffer patiently

b)

join the army

c)

to withstand

d)

to give up or quit

22.

Yankees

a)

Union soldiers

b)

Confederate soldiers

23.

amendment

a)

an article added to the U.S. Constitution

b)

the rights and powers held by the individual states

24.

Confederacy

a)

Canada

b)

The South / Southern states

c)

The North / Northern states

d)

The territories

25.

endure

a)

to give up or quit

b)

suffer patiently

c)

to withdraw or break away

d)

join the military

26.

Rebel

a)

Confederate soldier

b)

Union soldier

c)

Jesse James

d)

Buffalo Bill

27.

secede

a)

suffer patiently

b)

combine

c)

connect two things together

d)

to break away or withdraw from the whole

28.

cause of the Civil War

a)

secession, slavery, abolitionists

b)

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

29.

Effects of the Civil War

a)

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

enormous casualties

ironclad ships

b)

Bleeding Kansas

secession

states' rights

30.

Where did the first shots of the Civil War happen?

a)

Gettysburg

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Vicksburg

d)

Antietam

31.

Lincoln's most famous speech

a)

The Day of Infamy

b)

The Gettysburg Address

c)

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury

d)

I Have a Dream

32.

What was the Anaconda Plan?

a)

blockading the Mississippi River

b)

the siege at Vicksburg

c)

military plan to squeeze the Confederacy like a big python snake

d)

the surrender at Appomattox Court House

33.

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

a)

freed the slaves in the Southern States

b)

allowed people of Kansas to vote on whether Kansas would be a slave state or a free state

c)

admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state

34.

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

a)

freed the slaves of the Southern states

b)

freed the slaves everywhere

35.

Which state was the 1st state to secede?

a)

Florida

b)

California

c)

South Carolina

36.

The Southern states' economies relied heavily on what?

a)

fishing industry

b)

steel manufactoring

c)

cash crops such as cotton and tobacco

d)

lumber

37.

Where is the Lincoln Memorial located?

a)

New York

b)

South Dakota

c)

Washington D.C.

d)

Illinois

38.

Some women dressed like men so they could fight in the Civil War

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

39.

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant and the Union Army ?

a)

Fort Sumter,

South Carolina

b)

Appomattox Court House,

Virginia

c)

Applebottom Store

South Carolina

d)

Vicksburg,

Mississippi

40.

What is the name of the theatre where Lincoln was assassinated?

a)

Chevy's Theatre

b)

Ford's Theatre

c)

Lincoln's Theatre

d)

Dodge's Theatre

41.

Who killed President Lincoln?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

John Wilkes Booth