WorksheetsThe Civil War
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 28mins
The Confederacy captured which Fort, in 1861, beginning the Civil War?
Fort Bragg
Fort Benning
Fort Sumter
Fort Hood
Who was the 16th president of the United States?
William Taft
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
James Buchanan
What was the name of the major naval battle between the C.S.S. Virginia and U.S.S. Monitor?
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Ironclads
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Midway
Which Battle had the bloodiest single day of fighting in U.S. history?
The Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Vicksburg
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Antietam
This document was written by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and ordered that the slaves in the Confederacy be freed.
Emancipation Proclamation
Declaration of Independence
Magna Carta
Anti-Slavery Bylaw
Which Mississippi town was sieged by the Union in 1863 by cutting off its supplies and shelling it repeatedly?
Biloxi
Vicksburg
Keesler
Jackson
Who was the general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
"Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the general of the Union Army during the Civil War?
"Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?
Confederacy
Union
It was a tie
Abraham Lincoln gave this speech praising the bravery of the Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the war
Gettysburg Conversation
Gettysburg Victory Speech
Gettysburg Address
State of the Union
Where did Robert E Lee and the Confederates Army surrender on April 9, 1865?
The White House
Supreme Court
Bull Run
Appomattox Courthouse
What was the Union strategy to win the Civil War called?
The Python Plan
The Anaconda Plan
The Barracuda Plan
The Union Plan
Which event changed the reason for fighting the Civil War from preserving the Union to freeing the slaves?
Secession of South Carolina
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Antietam
What amendment abolishes slavery in ALL of the United States?
13th
14th
15th
10th
Which Civil War nurse created the American Red Cross?
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Phyllis Wheatly
Clara Barton
The North liked tariffs because
they protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition
they protected large landowners and their cash crops
they wanted the national government to be strong
each state should be able to make their own laws
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.
According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that
The most famous regiment of African American soldiers.
Hornet's Nest
Shiloh
54th Massachusetts
Fort Pillow
I was the first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Frederick Douglass
William Carney
Philip Bazaar
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said that the country was based on the idea that "all men are created equal." What founding document was he quoting?
the Declaration of Independence
the Emancipation Proclamation
the Bill of Rights
the Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia was burned at the end of the Civil War. During which campaign was Atlanta burned?
Robert E. Lee’s last campaign
Stonewall Jackson’s campaign into Gettysburg.
William Sherman’s March to the Sea
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
What was the Compromise of 1850? Select all that apply.
California would enter the Union as a free state.
Texas would be allowed to enter the Union as a slave state.
The Fugitive Slave Law was passed
The slave trade would end in the nation’s capital.
Which of the following statements about the sides in the Civil War is correct?
Union: South
Confederacy: North
Union: South
Confederacy: West
Union: West
Confederacy: South
Union: North
Confederacy: South
1) The Kansas-Nebraska Act
2) The Missouri Compromise
3) The Compromise of 1850
What did the above 3 acts address?
Whether or not the U.S. should expand Westward.
Whether or not Slavery should be allowed in the U.S.
If the U.S. should go to War with Mexico.
If the U.S. should grow more Cotton & Wheat.
What was the name of the new country that was formed by the southern states?
Republic of Texas
United States of the South
Democratic Republic of the Carolinas
Confederate States of America
How did the Unions victory strengthen the power of the national government?
It forfeited the states power
It ensured that states would never again secede
It let the Confederacy quit without a fight
It declared that states rights do not matter
The Republican party was established on the belief of
Destroying the South
Helping slavery spread
Opposing slavery
Going to war
What is popular sovereignty?
Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide
Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide
