WorksheetsCivil War Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 5hrs 0mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. What was a major cause of the Civil War?
a)
a. land
b)
b. economy
c)
c. Taxes
d)
d. Slavery
2.
2. Who attacked an army post in Harper's Ferry, Virginia? He wanted to start a slave rebellion.
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
John Brown
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Stonewall Jackson
3.
3. Which was the first state to secede from the Union?
a)
Georgia
b)
Tennessee
c)
South Carolina
d)
Florida
4.
4. Why did the Southern states want to leave the union?
a)
a. They wanted to continue to have slaves
b)
b. They wanted to be rich
c)
c. They did not want Jefferson Davis as President
d)
d. They wanted to be free of England
5.
5. What event started the Civil War on April 12, 1861?
a)
a. John Brown’s Raid
b)
b. The battle of Gettysburg
c)
c. The battle of Fort Sumter
d)
d. The battle of Vicksburg
6.
6. What were the people who fought to end slavery called?
a)
a. Terrorists
b)
b. Freedomists
c)
c. Pilgrims
d)
d. Abolitionists
7.
7. Who was the general who burned down Atlanta and then marched his troops toward Savannah, GA?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Stonewall Jackson
d)
William T. Sherman
8.
8. Who became the president of the Confederate States of America?
a)
a. Abraham Lincoln
b)
b. Stonewall Jackson
c)
c. Jefferson Davis
d)
d. John Brown
9.
9. General Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia used his strategy of total war. What did he and his troops do in that strategy?
a)
a. Gave money to the poor Southerners.
b)
b. Destroyed railroads, burned homes and businesses in the South, stole cattle and grain
c)
c. Sent supplies to the North
d)
d. Captured all slaves
10.
10. Why do you think the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was so powerful?
a)
a. It made people aware of slavery and got people talking about slavery
b)
b. It was a biography of Lincoln
c)
c. The book criticized the North for having slaves
d)
d. The book criticized California for entering the Union as a slave state
11.
11. Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War and where President Lincoln gave his famous speech after the battle.
a)
a. Atlanta, GA
b)
b. Fort Sumter, SC
c)
c. Gettysburg, PA
d)
d. Harper’s Ferry, VA
12.
12. Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
a)
a. Confederate General
b)
b. Slave owner
c)
c. Union General
d)
d. President of the Confederacy
13.
13. Who was the Confederate General that got his nickname at the first battle of Bull Run when he told his men to stand tall?
a)
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
14.
14. What were the names of the two groups that fought in the Civil War?
a)
Allies and Axis
b)
b. North and West
c)
c. Union and Confederacy
d)
d. Abolitionist and economists
15.
15. How did the South make money?
a)
a. Agriculture
b)
b. Technology
c)
c. Industry
d)
d. Politics
16.
16. What was the economy in the northern states based on?
a)
a. Farming
b)
b. Plantation work
c)
c. Services
d)
d. Industry
17.
17. Which of the following is true about States’ Rights?
a)
a. Southern states believed that states had the power to cancel out any federal law they disagreed with.
b)
b. Northern states believed that state law was supreme over federal law.
c)
c. The North believed in states' rights, that each state gets to make its own laws.
d)
d. President Abraham Lincoln knew that states seceding from the country would be good for the future.
18.
18. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Battle of Fort Sumter?
a)
a. the Union army surrendered
b)
b. The Battle of Fort Sumter was a major Confederate win.
c)
c. The battle marked the beginning of their success in the South.
d)
d. The Confederacy surrendered and the war was over.
19.
19. Which was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
a)
Gettysburg
b)
Fort Sumter
c)
Bull Run
d)
March to the Sea
20.
20. Which of the following is true about the end of the Civil War?
a)
a. Grant surrendered to Lee at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
b)
b. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
c)
c. Lee surrendered to Grant at Richmond Court House on April 9, 1865. This ended the war.
d)
d. The Union surrendered at the battle of Gettysburg. This ended the war.
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