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Complete Histoy Chapter 7

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the former slave who led over seventy people to freedom using the Underground Railroad?

a)

Robert E. Lee, Confederate army commander

b)

Harriet Tubman, brave guide on escape routes

c)

Ulysses S. Grant, Union army commander

d)

Frederick Douglass, abolitionist leader and speaker

2.

Which person was the sixteenth U.S. President and the first Republican president?

a)

Millard Fillmore, thirteenth U.S. President

b)

Zachary Taylor, twelfth U.S. President

c)

Abraham Lincoln, leader during Civil War

d)

James Buchanan, fifteenth U.S. President

3.

Who was the commander of all the Union armies later in the Civil War?

a)

George McClellan, early Union commander

b)

Ulysses S. Grant, top Union general

c)

Stonewall Jackson, famous Confederate

d)

Robert E. Lee, Confederate commander

4.

Who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War?

a)

William T. Sherman, Union general

b)

Robert E. Lee, commanding general

c)

George McClellan, Union commander

d)

Ulysses S. Grant, Union leader

5.

Which abolitionist was a former slave and became a powerful speaker and writer?

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, book author

b)

Zachary Taylor, U.S. President

c)

Frederick Douglass, voice for freedom

d)

John Wilkes Booth, stage actor

6.

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and was known as an abolitionist?

a)

Frederick Douglass, newspaper editor

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe, novel’s author

c)

Abraham Lincoln, Republican president

d)

James Buchanan, last prewar president

7.

Which leader was president of the Confederate States of America?

a)

Franklin Pierce, Kansas-Nebraska signer

b)

Millard Fillmore, Taylor’s successor

c)

Abraham Lincoln, Union president

d)

Jefferson Davis, Southern president

8.

Who was nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready” and served as the twelfth U.S. President?

a)

Zachary Taylor, twelfth president

b)

James Buchanan, fifteenth president

c)

Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president

d)

Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president

9.

Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a)

Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president

b)

Zachary Taylor, twelfth U.S. leader

c)

James Buchanan, last prewar president

d)

Abraham Lincoln, Civil War president

10.

Who became president when Zachary Taylor died?

a)

Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president

b)

James Buchanan, fifteenth president

c)

Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president

d)

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president

11.

Which person was the last U.S. President before the Civil War began?

a)

James Buchanan, fifteenth president

b)

Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president

c)

Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president

d)

Zachary Taylor, twelfth president

12.

Who was the early commander of the Union Army of the Potomac?

a)

George McClellan, cautious organizer

b)

Ulysses S. Grant, overall commander

c)

Robert E. Lee, Confederate leader

d)

Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general

13.

Which Confederate general became most remembered for the First Battle of Bull Run?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant, Union general

b)

Robert E. Lee, army commander

c)

Stonewall Jackson, steadfast fighter

d)

William T. Sherman, Union leader

14.

Who led a destructive “march to the sea” that helped end the Civil War?

a)

Robert E. Lee, Confederate general

b)

Ulysses S. Grant, Union commander

c)

George McClellan, Union organizer

d)

William T. Sherman, Union general

15.

Who was the actor who shot President Abraham Lincoln?

a)

John Wilkes Booth, stage performer

b)

Stonewall Jackson, Confederate soldier

c)

Jefferson Davis, Southern president

d)

Harriet Tubman, Underground guide

16.

Which pair correctly matches the person with the role?

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe — wrote famous novel

b)

Robert E. Lee — Union army leader

c)

Ulysses S. Grant — Confederate commander

d)

George McClellan — president of Confederacy

17.

Which term means a person who believed slavery should be ended?

a)

Monitor

b)

Republican Party

c)

Secede

d)

Abolitionist

18.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

Secret routes to free states

b)

Tracks built after the war

c)

A subway under cities

d)

A railroad owned by Union

19.

The Compromise of 1850 tried to do what?

a)

Balance power in the Senate

b)

Give land to Union soldiers

c)

End all slavery immediately

d)

Start the Civil War early

20.

What did the Dred Scott Decision allow in U.S. territories?

a)

Women voting

b)

No taxes at all

c)

Free public schools

d)

Slavery

21.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared what?

a)

All states must pay taxes

b)

War was officially over

c)

Slaves were free in rebel states

d)

New states could choose slavery

22.

Which act stopped bringing enslaved people to America to be sold?

a)

Transatlantic Slave Trade Act

b)

Fugitive Slave Act

c)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

d)

Thirteenth Amendment

23.

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people in Northern states to do?

a)

Build ironclad ships

b)

Vote for the Union

c)

Return runaway slaves

d)

Open secret routes

24.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided land into which kinds of states?

a)

One neutral territory

b)

Two slave states

c)

One slave and one free

d)

Two free states

25.

The Republican Party was founded on what belief?

a)

Taxes must be raised

b)

Slavery should not be allowed

c)

Secede from the Union

d)

Ironclads win all battles

26.

To secede means what?

a)

Withdraw from the Union

b)

Elect a president

c)

Join the Union army

d)

Build a new railroad

27.

Who were the Confederate States of America?

a)

All Northern free states

b)

Western territories with forts

c)

Eleven states that left the Union

d)

Union states with ironclads

28.

What was the American Civil War?

a)

A peaceful agreement

b)

War with another country

c)

War between Union and Confederacy

d)

A battle at sea only

29.

Which battle is called the deadliest of the Civil War?

a)

First Battle of Bull Run

b)

Battle of Antietam

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

Battle of Gettysburg

30.

What were the Merrimack and the Monitor?

a)

Confederate and Union ironclads

b)

Two famous generals

c)

Important speeches

d)

Western territories

31.

Which battle was the first major Civil War battle won by the South?

a)

Battle of Gettysburg

b)

Battle of Antietam

c)

Battle of Vicksburg

d)

First Battle of Bull Run

32.

Which battle is known as the turning point of the Civil War?

a)

Battle of Vicksburg

b)

Battle of Gettysburg

c)

Battle of Antietam

d)

First Battle of Bull Run

33.

What did the Gettysburg Address do?

a)

Divided two territories

b)

Created a new law

c)

Declared war over

d)

Honored fallen soldiers

34.

What did the Battle of Vicksburg give the Union army control of?

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Great Lakes

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Mississippi River

35.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do in the United States?

a)

Created new territories

b)

Raised taxes

c)

Started the war

d)

Outlawed slavery

36.

Which statement best describes an abolitionist’s goal?

a)

Make new slave territories

b)

Build ironclad ships

c)

Support seceding states

d)

End slavery everywhere

37.

Which place is known as where the first shots of the Civil War were fired?

a)

Richmond, Virginia city

b)

Fort Sumter in South Carolina

c)

Appomattox Court House site

d)

Ford's Theatre in Washington

38.

Richmond, Virginia was important during the Civil War because it was the

a)

place where Lincoln was killed

b)

location of Lee's surrender

c)

first battle field of the war

d)

final capital of the Confederacy

39.

At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, what major event happened?

a)

The Confederate capital moved

b)

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant

c)

The war's first shots were fired

d)

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

40.

Ford's Theatre is best known in Civil War history as the

a)

city that was Confederate capital

b)

place of the war's first shots

c)

site of Lee's surrender

d)

location of Lincoln's assassination

41.

Which year marks the beginning of the American Civil War?

a)

1860

b)

1861

c)

1864

d)

1865

42.

General Lee surrendered to General Grant in which year, ending the Civil War?

a)

1862

b)

1863

c)

1864

d)

1865

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