WorksheetsUnit 9 - The American Civil War
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are units of troops on horseback; mainly used before the invention of modern vehicles?
a)
The Union
b)
Calvary
c)
Infantry
d)
Navy
2.
What was the nation formed by the southern states when they seceded (separated) from the Union (the United States of America).
a)
The Union
b)
The United Southern States
c)
The Communist South
d)
The Confederacy
3.
What was the name of the northern states during the American Revolution, who fought to outlaw slavery and gain back the lands taken by the Confederacy (southern states)?
a)
The Union
b)
The Confederacy
c)
The Rebels
d)
The United States Marine Corp.
4.
The Presidential Election of 1860 led to the election who?
a)
James Madison
b)
George Washington
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Jefferson Davis
5.
Who was a Virginia military general who became the commander of the Confederate forces during the Civil War?
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
General Sherman
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Abraham Lincoln
6.
Who was a Union general who later became the 18th president of the United States from 1869-1877?
a)
Jefferson Davis
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Ulysses S. Grant
d)
Thomas Jefferson
7.
What was the name of the first battle of the American Civil War, at the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina?
a)
Battle of Charleston
b)
Battle of Fort Sumter
c)
Battle of Gettysburg
d)
Battle of Saratoga
8.
What was the deadliest one-day battle in American military history? It took place in Sharpsburg, Maryland where more than 22,000 Americans died on that day.
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battle of Fort Sumter
c)
Battle of Bull Run
d)
Battle of Fort Moultrie
9.
The bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War; many historians claim that the Southern defeat in this battle was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. It is considered the turning point of the war.
a)
Battle of Antietam
b)
Battle of Fort Sumter
c)
Battle of Camden
d)
Battle of Gettysburg
10.
What was the name of Union Strategy during the civil war that was a devastating total war military campaign, led by Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, that involved marching 60,000 union troops through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah and destroying everything along the way? (Burned down Chesterfield).
a)
Lincoln's March to the Sea
b)
Jefferson's March to the Sea
c)
Sherman's March to the Sea
d)
Grant's March to the Sea
11.
What was it called when Southern railroad tracks were bent around trees so they couldn't ever be used again as part of General Sherman's March?
a)
Sherman's Bowties
b)
Sherman's Origami
c)
Grant's Bowties
d)
Grant's Origami
12.
What was the name of the document that declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free?
a)
The Emancipation Proclamation
b)
Secession
c)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
d)
The Missouri Compromise
13.
What was perceived as a divider between free and slave states before the Civil War?
a)
The Jordan-Rump Line
b)
The Maginot Line
c)
The Mason-Dixon Line
d)
The Great Wall of Maryland
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