WorksheetsComplete Histoy Chapter 7
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 21mins
Who was the former slave who led over seventy people to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
Robert E. Lee, Confederate army commander
Harriet Tubman, brave guide on escape routes
Ulysses S. Grant, Union army commander
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist leader and speaker
Which person was the sixteenth U.S. President and the first Republican president?
Millard Fillmore, thirteenth U.S. President
Zachary Taylor, twelfth U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln, leader during Civil War
James Buchanan, fifteenth U.S. President
Who was the commander of all the Union armies later in the Civil War?
George McClellan, early Union commander
Ulysses S. Grant, top Union general
Stonewall Jackson, famous Confederate
Robert E. Lee, Confederate commander
Who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
William T. Sherman, Union general
Robert E. Lee, commanding general
George McClellan, Union commander
Ulysses S. Grant, Union leader
Which abolitionist was a former slave and became a powerful speaker and writer?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, book author
Zachary Taylor, U.S. President
Frederick Douglass, voice for freedom
John Wilkes Booth, stage actor
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and was known as an abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass, newspaper editor
Harriet Beecher Stowe, novel’s author
Abraham Lincoln, Republican president
James Buchanan, last prewar president
Which leader was president of the Confederate States of America?
Franklin Pierce, Kansas-Nebraska signer
Millard Fillmore, Taylor’s successor
Abraham Lincoln, Union president
Jefferson Davis, Southern president
Who was nicknamed “Old Rough and Ready” and served as the twelfth U.S. President?
Zachary Taylor, twelfth president
James Buchanan, fifteenth president
Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
Zachary Taylor, twelfth U.S. leader
James Buchanan, last prewar president
Abraham Lincoln, Civil War president
Who became president when Zachary Taylor died?
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
James Buchanan, fifteenth president
Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president
Which person was the last U.S. President before the Civil War began?
James Buchanan, fifteenth president
Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president
Zachary Taylor, twelfth president
Who was the early commander of the Union Army of the Potomac?
George McClellan, cautious organizer
Ulysses S. Grant, overall commander
Robert E. Lee, Confederate leader
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general
Which Confederate general became most remembered for the First Battle of Bull Run?
Ulysses S. Grant, Union general
Robert E. Lee, army commander
Stonewall Jackson, steadfast fighter
William T. Sherman, Union leader
Who led a destructive “march to the sea” that helped end the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee, Confederate general
Ulysses S. Grant, Union commander
George McClellan, Union organizer
William T. Sherman, Union general
Who was the actor who shot President Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth, stage performer
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate soldier
Jefferson Davis, Southern president
Harriet Tubman, Underground guide
Which pair correctly matches the person with the role?
Harriet Beecher Stowe — wrote famous novel
Robert E. Lee — Union army leader
Ulysses S. Grant — Confederate commander
George McClellan — president of Confederacy
Which term means a person who believed slavery should be ended?
Monitor
Republican Party
Secede
Abolitionist
What was the Underground Railroad?
Secret routes to free states
Tracks built after the war
A subway under cities
A railroad owned by Union
The Compromise of 1850 tried to do what?
Balance power in the Senate
Give land to Union soldiers
End all slavery immediately
Start the Civil War early
What did the Dred Scott Decision allow in U.S. territories?
Women voting
No taxes at all
Free public schools
Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation declared what?
All states must pay taxes
War was officially over
Slaves were free in rebel states
New states could choose slavery
Which act stopped bringing enslaved people to America to be sold?
Transatlantic Slave Trade Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Thirteenth Amendment
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people in Northern states to do?
Build ironclad ships
Vote for the Union
Return runaway slaves
Open secret routes
The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided land into which kinds of states?
One neutral territory
Two slave states
One slave and one free
Two free states
The Republican Party was founded on what belief?
Taxes must be raised
Slavery should not be allowed
Secede from the Union
Ironclads win all battles
To secede means what?
Withdraw from the Union
Elect a president
Join the Union army
Build a new railroad
Who were the Confederate States of America?
All Northern free states
Western territories with forts
Eleven states that left the Union
Union states with ironclads
What was the American Civil War?
A peaceful agreement
War with another country
War between Union and Confederacy
A battle at sea only
Which battle is called the deadliest of the Civil War?
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
What were the Merrimack and the Monitor?
Confederate and Union ironclads
Two famous generals
Important speeches
Western territories
Which battle was the first major Civil War battle won by the South?
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Vicksburg
First Battle of Bull Run
Which battle is known as the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Antietam
First Battle of Bull Run
What did the Gettysburg Address do?
Divided two territories
Created a new law
Declared war over
Honored fallen soldiers
What did the Battle of Vicksburg give the Union army control of?
Underground Railroad
Great Lakes
Atlantic Ocean
Mississippi River
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do in the United States?
Created new territories
Raised taxes
Started the war
Outlawed slavery
Which statement best describes an abolitionist’s goal?
Make new slave territories
Build ironclad ships
Support seceding states
End slavery everywhere
Which place is known as where the first shots of the Civil War were fired?
Richmond, Virginia city
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
Appomattox Court House site
Ford's Theatre in Washington
Richmond, Virginia was important during the Civil War because it was the
place where Lincoln was killed
location of Lee's surrender
first battle field of the war
final capital of the Confederacy
At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, what major event happened?
The Confederate capital moved
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant
The war's first shots were fired
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Ford's Theatre is best known in Civil War history as the
city that was Confederate capital
place of the war's first shots
site of Lee's surrender
location of Lincoln's assassination
Which year marks the beginning of the American Civil War?
1860
1861
1864
1865
General Lee surrendered to General Grant in which year, ending the Civil War?
1862
1863
1864
1865
