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The Civil War - chapters 9-12

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Stephen A. Douglas

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

Stonewall Jackson

2.

Which battle started the Civil War?

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Gettysburg

d)

Chancellorsville

3.

Who did President Lincoln ask to lead the Union armies, but he declined because he could not turn against his home state of Virginia?

a)

Stonewall Jackson

b)

George Meade

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Robert E. Lee

4.

Which Union strategy kept the Confederates from selling cotton and buying supplies?

a)

total war

b)

anaconda strategy

c)

naval blockade

d)

march to the sea

5.

Who won the battle in 1862 between the Virginia and the Monitor?

a)

Both ships successfully sank the other

b)

Neither ship was able to sink the other

c)

the Virginia sank the Monitor

d)

Neither ship was able to sink the other

6.

What was Lincoln's problem with General McClellan?

a)

McClellan was too eager to fight the enemy

b)

McClellan was trained as an admiral in the navy.

c)

McClellan was too reluctant to attack the enemy.

d)

McClellan was a poor organizer and trainer of soldiers.

7.

In which battle did 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lose their life?

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Bull Run

c)

Antietam

d)

Vicksburg

8.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

John C. Calhoun

9.

The Missouri Compromise

a)

allowed Missouri to become a state if it outlawed slavery

b)

created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south.

c)

divided the Missouri Territory into the states of Missouri and Illinois.

d)

allowed Missouri to become a state without Congress’s approval.

10.

Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?

a)

a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad

b)

a civil war nurse

c)

the wife of Robert E. Lee

d)

the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

11.

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

a)

slavery was illegal

b)

slaves were property, and Congress could not take away a person’s right to his property by passing a law.

c)

the Compromise of 1850 was against the Constitution and should not have been passed as a law

d)

Dred Scott was a free man because he lived in Louisiana.