WorksheetsCivil War Test
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 7hrs 0mins
What was the name of the Southern states that broke away to form their own country?
Unionist
Confederacy
Rebels
Americans
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Appomattox Court House
Richmond
Who was the president of the US during the Civil War?
(a)
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
William Sherman
Colonel Sanders
Jefferson Davis
Bob Dylan
When the Civil War began what was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal?
To preserve the Union
To end slavery
To punish the South
To make a name for himself
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
Seceding
Leaving the country
Peacing Out
Separatists
A system in which the residents vote to decide on an issue (slavery).
Suffrage
Popular Sovereignty
Manifest Destiny
Abolition
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states
The Underground Railroad
The Wagon Train
Tubman Trail
The Underground Freedom Path
States that remained in the Union, but still enslaved men, women, and children (Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri).
The in between states
Border States
Union Salve States
The Middle States
Northern plan to crush the Confederacy by surrounding it with a naval blockade to prevent any imports.
The Constrictor Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Snake Plan
The Blockade Plan
All of the following are Weakness of the Union at the start of the war EXCEPT....
Needed to fight an offensive war as opposed to a defensive one
Did not expect the war to be so difficult
They had much better military leaders than the South
Morale and motivation for war was not as high as in the South for many
First shots were fired here when Lincoln sent ships with food to feed hungry men.
Bunker Hill
Bull Run
Fort Sumter
Antietam
Which of the following describes General Sherman's march through Georgia?
an example of total war
a defeat for both armies
a peaceful end to conflict
the bloodiest battle of the war
The Union’s Anaconda Plan included all of the following strategies except?
dividing the South
blocking Southern ports.
capturing Richmond, Virginia.
assassinating the Confederate president
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that
enslaved people in U.S. territories were free
enslaved people throughout the world were free
enslaved people in Confederate states were free
enslaved people in Union states with slavery were free.
Which document did Lincoln reference in his Gettysburg Address?
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal
U.S. Constitution
Emancipation Proclamation
Preamble to the Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Clara Barton worked with wounded soldiers and later founded the
American Field Hospital
Nurses's Union
American Red Cross
Hospital for Soldiers
True or false: A major strength of the North at the beginning of the Civil War was that its population was much larger than the South's.
True
False
Which side had the advantage of greater industrial resources?
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the war?
Lee succeeded in capturing a city in the North
The South suffered many losses while the North and few.
The loss of troops convinced Lee to never again invade the North
The outcome convinced European nations to aid the Confederacy
How did Northerners view secession of Southern States?
As a voluntary act which they were allowed to do
As a traitorous act of rebellion
They supported their decision because they didn't like slavery and wanted slave states out of the Union
With jealousy because they wished they could leave too
Define the term 'Total War' used by General Sherman in his march to the sea
tanks, planes and carriers...Oh MY!
The use of the trench warfare
The creation of a committee to create a treaty that was fair to all
Burn and destroy factories to wipe out the economy of a region
WHO WAS LEFT TO RUN THE BUSINESSES, FACTORIES AND FARMS IN THE WAR?
SOLDIERS
SLAVES
WOMEN
Who shot Abe?
E. Lee
W. Booth
J. Davis
Where was he assassinated?
White House
Ford's Theater
a cafe
a restaurant
First State to secede from the Union?
Mississippi
South Carolina
Kentucky
Virginia
