Ind. Civil War Final

Question 1

Which of the following states was not part of the Confederacy?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Question 2

Which of the following compromises allowed slaves to be counted as a portion of one person in state representation

Accepted Answer

3/5ths compromise

Question 3

What amendment to the Constitution eventually abolished slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 4

According to the idea of popular sovereignty, who would decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?

Accepted Answer

Citizens of the territory

Question 5

Who was the President of the Confederacy

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 6

Which of the following battles was considered Robert E. Lee’s “Masterpiece”?

Accepted Answer

The Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 7

Which of the following proposed the 36’30 line as a border for slavery in the future states in the western territories?

Accepted Answer

The Missouri Compromise

Question 8

Which military general was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville?

Accepted Answer

General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 10

Why did McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign fail?

Accepted Answer

His reluctance to attack allowed Lee to pick his army apart

Question 11

Which of the following was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Accepted Answer

Slavery in the western territories

Question 12

How long did the Siege of Petersburg last?

Accepted Answer

9 Months

Question 13

The Battle of Antietam still stands as the bloodiest day in American history?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Why did Southerners oppose Abraham Lincoln as a candidate for president in 1860?

Accepted Answer

He wanted 2 leave slavery alone where it existed but ban it from new states

Question 15

Which was NOT a result of the Battle of Gettysburg?

Accepted Answer

The Union was unable to continue advancing into the South

Question 16

The Dredd Scott Decision

Accepted Answer

Ruled that slaves did not have rights

Question 17

What was important about the the surrender of New Orleans?

Accepted Answer

The Union gained control of most of the Mississippi River

Question 18

Which of the following was not an advantage of the North at the start of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

First-rate generals and military leadership

Question 19

Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850

Accepted Answer

California applied for statehood as a free state

Question 20

Which state was first to secede from the Union?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina

Question 21

Where was Lincoln Assassinated?

Accepted Answer

Ford’s Theater

Question 22

What was the name of the Northern plan for victory in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The Anaconda Plan

Question 23

Which is NOT true about the Overland Campaign?

Accepted Answer

Atlanta was captured

Question 24

Runaway slaves returned to the South as spies for the Union

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

John Brown led an assault on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in order to arm local whites and protect slavery

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

How did southern women endure hardship during the war?

Accepted Answer

The South experienced shortages in food, medicine, clothing, etc.

Question 27

Which of the following is NOT a reason soldiers deserted during the civil war?

Accepted Answer

Soldiers were drafted and did not believe in the cause of the war

Question 28

Which of the following was not a result of the First Battle of Bull Run

Accepted Answer

The Confederacy launched a successful invasion of Washington D.C.

Question 29

Why did Lincoln promote General Ulysses S. Grant as Commander of the Union Army?

Accepted Answer

He rarely retreated and was not afraid to press the attack against Lee

Question 30

Why was President Lincoln hesitant about using military force to prevent the secession of southern states?

Accepted Answer

He was worried border states would secede and join the confederacy

Question 31

Abolitionists believed which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Slavery should be outlawed everywhere

Question 32

What was unique about the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln won with 0 electoral votes in the South

Question 33

The North’s strategy to win the war included a naval blockade and to sieze control of what important river?

Accepted Answer

Mississippi

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT a result of the Battle of Antietam?

Accepted Answer

General Ambrose Burnside was killed in action during the battle

Question 35

Where did Lee surrender at?

Accepted Answer

Appamattox

Question 36

Clara Barton went on to found which organization

Accepted Answer

The American Red Cross

Question 37

Which is true about the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

It freed all slaves behind Confederate lines

Question 38

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

Question 39

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

John Wilkes Booth

Question 40

How were slaves a “weapon” for the Southern war effort?

Accepted Answer

Slaves privided a steady workforce on the home front

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