WorksheetsHistory Chapter 7
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which abolitionist leader was once a slave and became a powerful speaker for freedom?
Frederick Douglass, former slave abolitionist
Robert E. Lee, Confederate commander
Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist abolitionist
Zachary Taylor, twelfth U.S. president
Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad guide
Ulysses S. Grant, Union commander
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist author
Jefferson Davis, Confederate president
Which leader guided over seventy enslaved people to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth U.S. president
George McClellan, early Union commander
Harriet Tubman, brave conductor to freedom
Who was the sixteenth U.S. president and the first Republican president?
Abraham Lincoln, first Republican president
James Buchanan, president before Civil War
Zachary Taylor, nicknamed Old Rough and Ready
Millard Fillmore, became president after death
Which person served as president of the Confederate States of America?
William T. Sherman, Union general of march
Ulysses S. Grant, Union armies commander
Jefferson Davis, Confederate States president
Robert E. Lee, Confederate Army commander
Which Confederate general earned fame at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Stonewall Jackson, noted Bull Run general
Franklin Pierce, Kansas-Nebraska Act signer
William T. Sherman, Union march leader
George McClellan, early Union commander
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War era?
John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin
James Buchanan, last prewar president
Harriet Beecher Stowe, famous abolitionist
George McClellan, Union Army commander
What was the main purpose of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act?
To let all states vote on new laws
To start trading goods with other countries
To build faster ships for the ocean
To stop bringing enslaved people to America
Who was an abolitionist?
A person who wanted slavery abolished
A person who supported more taxes
A person who built railroad tracks
A person who voted in every election
What was the Underground Railroad?
A path used to move army supplies
A new train line for mail delivery
Secret routes to free states and Canada
A tunnel built under big cities
What did the Compromise of 1850 try to do?
Balance power in the Senate
Choose a new national leader
Create new western territories
End all fighting in the South
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people in free states to do?
Join the Union army immediately
Pay fines to southern governors
Teach reading to former slaves
Return runaway slaves to the South
What was decided in the Dred Scott Decision?
Voting age lowered for citizens
New taxes placed on plantations
Slavery banned in all free states
Slavery allowed in U.S. territories
What belief helped start the Republican Party?
States should raise farm prices
Slavery should not be allowed in territories
The army should grow larger quickly
Railroads should be owned by towns
What does it mean to secede?
To withdraw or leave the Union
To build a protective fortress
To agree on a fair compromise
To vote in a national election
Who were the Confederate States of America?
Border states that stayed neutral
Territories that became new states
All northern states during the war
Eleven states that left the Union
What was the American Civil War?
War fought with countries overseas
Short battle near the Mississippi
Vote to choose a new president
War between Union and Confederacy
Which side won the First Battle of Bull Run?
The South won the first major battle
The North took the city quickly
Both sides agreed to end fighting
Neither side used cannons there
What were the Merrimack and the Monitor?
Confederate and Union ironclad ships
Two forts built along the coast
Leaders of the Union cavalry
Names of secret underground routes
Why is the Battle of Antietam remembered?
Deadliest battle of the Civil War
Quickest victory for the Union army
First time cannons were used
Longest siege in the western front
What did the Emancipation Proclamation declare?
Slaves in rebel states were free
All slaves in border states moved
Soldiers must return to their farms
New taxes to fund the Union navy
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg important?
It created two new free states
It began the building of ironclads
It ended all fighting in the West
It was the turning point of the war
What was the Gettysburg Address?
A letter sent to Union generals
A map of routes to safe houses
A law to ban slavery everywhere
A short speech by President Lincoln
What happened at the Battle of Vicksburg?
Both sides agreed to share supplies
Confederacy captured northern factories
Union gained control of the Mississippi
Union navy built stronger wooden ships
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
Started building new western forts
Outlawed slavery in the United States
Required taxes on imported goods
Gave states more seats in the Senate
Which place is known for the first shots of the Civil War being fired?
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy
Which city served as the final capital of the Confederate States of America?
Charleston, South Carolina
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Richmond, Virginia
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending major fighting in the Civil War?
Ford’s Theatre in Washington
Richmond, the Confederate capital
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Which location is connected to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln?
Richmond, Virginia
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
A timeline shows 1861 at the start and 1865 at the end. If the war started in 1861, which year on the timeline marks its end?
1860, before the war
1863, middle of the war
1865, end of the war
1862, early in the war
