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Civil War

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Confederacy captured which Fort, in 1861, beginning the Civil War?

a)

Fort Bragg

b)

Fort Benning

c)

Fort Sumter

d)

Fort Hood

2.

What was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory?

a)

The Battle of Antietam

b)

The Battle of Bull Run

c)

The Battle of Vicksburg

d)

The Battle of Gettysburg

3.

Who was the 16th president of the United States?

a)

William Taft

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

George Washington

d)

James Buchanan

4.

What was the name of the major naval battle between the C.S.S. Virginia and U.S.S. Monitor?

a)

Battle of Antietam

b)

Battle of Ironclads

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

Battle of Midway

5.

Which Battle had the bloodiest single day of fighting in U.S. history (25,000 deaths)?

a)

The Battle of Bull Run

b)

The Battle of Vicksburg

c)

The Battle of Gettysburg

d)

The Battle of Antietam

6.

This document was written by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and ordered that the slaves in the Confederacy be freed.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Declaration of Independence

c)

Magna Carta

d)

Anti-Slavery Bylaw

7.

Which Mississippi town was sieged by the Union in 1863 by cutting off its supplies and shelling it repeatedly?

a)

Biloxi

b)

Vicksburg

c)

Keesler

d)

Jackson

8.

Who was the general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?

a)

"Stonewall" Jackson

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Ulysses S Grant

d)

Abraham Lincoln

9.

Who was the general of the Union Army during the Civil War?

a)

"Stonewall" Jackson

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Ulysses S Grant

d)

Abraham Lincoln

10.

Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?

a)

Confederacy

b)

Union

c)

It was a tie

11.

Abraham Lincoln gave this speech praising the bravery of the Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the war 

a)

Gettysburg Conversation

b)

Gettysburg Victory Speech

c)

Gettysburg Address

d)

State of the Union

12.

Where did Robert E Lee and the Confederates Army surrender on April 9, 1865?

a)

The White House

b)

Supreme Court

c)

Bull Run

d)

Appomattox Courthouse

13.

What was the Union strategy to win the Civil War called?

a)

The Python Plan

b)

The Anaconda Plan

c)

The Barracuda Plan

d)

The Union Plan

14.

Which was NOT an effect of the Civil War?

a)

End of slavery

b)

Over 600,000 deaths

c)

The Confederacy won and became its own country

d)

The Southern economy was destroyed