WorksheetsThe Civil War - chapters 9-12
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
Stephen A. Douglas
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Which battle started the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Who did President Lincoln ask to lead the Union armies, but he declined because he could not turn against his home state of Virginia?
Stonewall Jackson
George Meade
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Which Union strategy kept the Confederates from selling cotton and buying supplies?
total war
anaconda strategy
naval blockade
march to the sea
Who won the battle in 1862 between the Virginia and the Monitor?
Both ships successfully sank the other
Neither ship was able to sink the other
the Virginia sank the Monitor
Neither ship was able to sink the other
What was Lincoln's problem with General McClellan?
McClellan was too eager to fight the enemy
McClellan was trained as an admiral in the navy.
McClellan was too reluctant to attack the enemy.
McClellan was a poor organizer and trainer of soldiers.
In which battle did 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lose their life?
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Antietam
Vicksburg
Who invented the cotton gin?
Thomas Jefferson
Nat Turner
Eli Whitney
John C. Calhoun
The Missouri Compromise
allowed Missouri to become a state if it outlawed slavery
created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south.
divided the Missouri Territory into the states of Missouri and Illinois.
allowed Missouri to become a state without Congress’s approval.
Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?
a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
a civil war nurse
the wife of Robert E. Lee
the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that
slavery was illegal
slaves were property, and Congress could not take away a person’s right to his property by passing a law.
the Compromise of 1850 was against the Constitution and should not have been passed as a law
Dred Scott was a free man because he lived in Louisiana.
