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A system of escape routes for slaves to reach their freedom
Conscription
Underground Railroad
Secession
Popular Sovereignty
2
The Union won control of the Mississippi River
Gettysburg
Antietam
Vicksburg
Shiloh
3
A three day battle that was the turning point of the war
Bull Run
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Sumter
4
I defeated Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg.
George Meade
Wingfield Scott
Ulysses S Grant
Ambrose Burnside
5
I am the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
William Tecumseh Sherman
Thomas Jackson
6
I assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on the night of April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Dred Scott
7
The military draft
Conscription
Popular Sovereignty
Confederacy
Secession
8
The capital of the Confederacy was:
Richmond
Manassas
Chancellorsville
Atlanta
9
The right of a state to vote whether to be a slave or free state
Conscription
Secession
Confederacy
Popular Sovereignty
10
I wrote the anti-slavery book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Susan B Anthony
Jane Adams
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
11
The American Red Cross was started by me and my nickname was the “Angel on the Battlefield.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Susan B Anthony
Jane Adams
Clara Barton
12
I ran against Lincoln in the Senate and later in the Presidential Race. Lincoln and I had several heated debates.
Stephen Douglas
Ulysses S Grant
Jefferson Davis
Andrew Johnson
13
The formal withdrawal from the Union
Secession
Conscription
Confederacy
Popular Sovereignty
14
At the end of the war, the total death count was:
580,000
600,000
405,000
620,000
15
In 1860, I was elected the 16th President of the United States.
Robert E Lee
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
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The first shots of the Civil War were fired here
Shiloh
Fort Donelson
Bull Run
Fort Sumter
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First battle of the Civil War
Shiloh
Manassas
Sumter
Gettysburg
18
In which battle was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson shot?
Chancellorsville
Vicksburg
Gettyburg
Bull Run
19
All were true of the Missouri Compromise except:
Maine became a free state
California became a free state
The compromise was to balance power in the
Missouri became a slave state
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Lee surrendered to me at Appomattox Courthouse.
George Custer
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ambrose Burnside
Ulysses S Grant
21
I sued my master for my freedom but was denied because I was seen as property
Harriet Tubman
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglas
George Meade
22
These were all advantages for the South during the Civil War except....
Motivated soldiers
More money
Fighting a defensive war
Better generals
23
All were true of the southern economy except:
It depended on Peculiar Institution
They were a plantation economy
They believed in the Positive Good Theory
They were economically diverse
24
I led a group of 21 men in a revolt in Harper’s Ferry to try to overtake the arsenal to get weapons for the slaves.
James Longstreet
Braxton Bragg
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
25
Freed the slaves but not throughout the entire country
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
Civil Rights Act
Conscription
26
All were true of the compromise of 1850 except:
The Fugitive Slave Law became harsher
Utah and Nevada would vote to be slave or free
California was admitted as a free state
Maine was admitted as a free state
27
Southern small farm Republican
Carpetbagger
Secession
Freesoiler
Scalawag
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Where Lee surrendered to Grant
Antietam
Appomattox Courthouse
Atlanta Courthouse
Vicksburg
29
What did Lincoln write the Gettysburg Address for?
To celebrate the Union winning the Battle of Gettysburg
To let everyone know about the Emancipation Proclamation
Dedication of a cemetery
In honor of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's death
30
Which was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maine
31
It allowed slave owners to come to the north and retrieve their runaway slaves
Civil Rights Act
Reconstruction Act
Fugitive Slave Law
Conscription
32
All were advantages for the North during the Civil War except...
Better generals
Better railways
More people
More factories
33
Union troops traveled from Atlanta to the coast, burning and destroying everything on the way
Savannah
Sherman's March
Bull Run
Vicksburg
34
All were true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act except:
It overturned the Missouri Compromise
It mandated popular sovereignty
It led to "Bleeding Kansas"
It overturned the Compromise of 1850
35
Northern Republican who moved south after the war for opportunities
Democrat
Scalawag
Carpetbagger
Whig
36
I was the commander of the Confederate Army.
James Longstreet
Thomas Jackson
Ulysses S Grant
Robert E Lee
37
What was the most important cash crop in the South?
Sugar
Wheat
Cotton
Tobacco
38
Gave African Americans their citizenship
14th Amendment
13th Amendment
Reconstruction Act
15th Amendment
39
What was the importance of victory at Vicksburg?
It destroyed a large southern army
It robbed the south of an important industrial area
It gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River
It allowed the Confederate troops to regroup and rebuild
40
Gave African American men the right to vote
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act
13th Amendment
41
During the first Battle of Bull Run, I earned the nickname “Stonewall” because I refused to budge.
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jackson
Robert E Lee
George Meade
42
Provided money for education, hospitals, social services, churches, and helped with discrimination cases
15th Amendment
Freedmens Bureau
Civil Right Act
Popular Sovereignty
43
I marched my troops all the way to the sea leaving a path of destruction on our way.
Wingfield Scott
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S Grant
George Meade
44
Sherman's strategy of total war in his march through Georgia was a plan to:
Fire on civilians as well as soldiers
Destroy troops, fields, and factories
Search out and destroy Lee’s army
Disrupt the blockade
45
I was a conductor for the Underground Railroad.
Hiram Revels
Dred Scott
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
46
I was the first commander of the Union army but was later relieved of my duty.
George McClellan
George Custer
George Meade
James Longstreet
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Legally freed the slaves throughout the country
15th Amendmet
13th Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
14th Amendment