Battles
What battle was known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
a. Sherman's March to Sea
b. Battle of Gettysburg
c. Battle of Antietam
d. Battle of Bull Run
c. Battle of Antietam
_____________led an attack on Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in order to provoke a slave revolt.
a. Dred Scott
b. John Brown
c. Robert E. Lee
d. Frederick Douglass
B. John Brown
What officially started the Civil War?
a. Battle at Fort Sumter
b. Disagreements between Lincoln and Davis
c. Disagreements between the North and the South
d. Battle of Gettysburg
a. Battle of Fort Sumter
Who won the Civil War?
a. The North
b. The South
c. Neither side, it was a tie
Select the correct term for the description: "kept balance between slave and free states."
a. Tariff
b. Emancipation
c. Sectionalism
d. Missouri Compromise
D. Missouri Compromise
The turning point of the Civil War and where President Lincoln gave his famous speech after the battle.
a. Atlanta, Georgia
b. Fort Sumter, South Carolina
c. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
d. Harper's Ferry, Virginia
c. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
_______________ was an escaped slave who became a writer, orator, journalist, and leading abolitionist.
a. William Lloyd Garrison
b. Frederick Douglass
c. Harriet Tubman
d. Dred Scott
B. Frederick Douglass
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
a. Jefferson Davis
b. Robert E. Lee
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Ulysses S. Grant
c. Abraham Lincoln
What amendments was necessary for Confederate states to include in order to be reinstated into the Union?
a. 13th and 14th
b. 13th and 15th
c. 14th and 15th
C. 14th and 15th
Select the correct term for the description: "The freeing of slaves"
a. tariff
b. emancipation
c. sectionalism
d. Missouri compromise
B. Emancipation
The Gettysburg Address was given by?
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Robert E. Lee
c. Jefferson Davis
d. Ulysses S. Grant
A. Abraham Lincoln
William Lloyd Garrison became a famous abolitionist through his newspaper, The Liberator.
a. true
b. false
a. true
Which of the following was a major cause of the American Civil War?
a. foreign invasion
b. immigration
c. slavery
d. taxes
C. Slavery
Five days after the Civil War ended, President Lincoln went to see a play at Ford's Theater in Washington DC. As he sat in the presidential box close to the stage he was shot by an actor named __________.
a. Andrew Johnson
b. John Wilkes Booth
c. Robert E. Lee
d. John Brown
b. John Wilkes Booth
To leave, or separate from, a nation in order to become an independent country is called _____________.
a. Rebellion
b. Prosperous
c. Secede
c. Secede
What was total war a part of?
a. Sherman's March to Sea
b. Battle of Gettysburg
c. Battle of Antietam
d. Battle of Bull Run
a. Sherman's March to Sea
What woman was born a slave and later spoke for women's rights and abolition?
a. Harriet Tubman
b. Rebecca Lee Crumpler
c. Mary Lincoln
d. Sojourner Truth
d. Sojourner Truth
Who was the first and only President of the Confederacy?
a. Jefferson Davis
b. John C. Calhoun
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. John Bell
A. Jefferson Davis
What was the name of he document that President Lincoln drafted to put an end to slavery?
a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The Emancipation Proclamation
c. The Gettysburg Address
d. The Bill of Rights
B. The Emancipation Proclamation
The people that fought to end slavery were called _________?
a. terrorists
b. freedomists
c. pilgrims
d. abolitionists
d. Abolitionists
Appomattox Courthouse is important because:
a. Confederate soldiers were put on trial there
b. Lee surrendered to Grant there
c. Union soldiers were put on trial there
d. Grant surrendered to Lee there
b. Lee surrendered to Grant there
Which abolitionist wrote the anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator?
a. Frederick Douglass
b. William Lloyd Garrison
c. John Brown
d. Dred Scott
b. William Lloyd Garrison
Southern states wanted the new states created out of the Western territory to be ________
a. United
b. Free
c. Confederate
d. Slave
d. Slave
The ___________ amendment declared that slavery would no longer allowed in the United States.
a. 13th
b. 14th
c. 15th
a. 13th
The Underground Railroad was ______________.
a. An underground train
b. A secret cave that slaves traveled
c. A group of people that helped slaves escape
d. A railroad haunted by the ghost of slavery
C. A group of people that helped slaves escape