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Review for 8th graders
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1
Which Confederate general made a "March to the Sea"?
General Stonewall Jackson
General J.E.B. Stuart
General George E. Pickett
General William Sherman
2
Vicksburg was surrounded and starved into surrender. What is that called?
A stalemate
A siege
A raid
A stonewall
3
When Lee invaded Maryland in 1862, where did the Union stop him?
Fredericksburg
Chickamauga
Antietam
Chancellorsville
4
Which state was created when they refused to secede with the rest of the state:
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
5
Which Union military leader captured New Orleans?
Ulysses S. Grant
Edwin Stanton
George McClelland
David Farragut
6
What was the first state to leave the Union?
Georgia
South Carolina
Alabama
North Carolina
7
Where did the Conderacy surrender?
Gettysburg
Richmond
Appomattox
Atlanta
8
What was the capitol of the Confederacy?
Charlotte, North Carolina
Richmond, Virginia
Nashville, Tennessee
Atlanta, Georgia
9
Where did President Lincoln's most famous speech take place?
Bull Run
Antietam
Appomattox
Gettysburg
10
Which Southern state was the first to reenter the Union?
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Kentucky
11
What was the Doctrine of Nullification?
The idea that businesses using slaves would be nullified
The idea that the Confederacy nullified the Constitution
The idea that a state could refuse to obey a Union law
The idea that slaves who reached Maine were free
12
Who was President of the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
13
Who was the author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin
?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mary Todd Lincoln
14
Who was the Union military leader that accepted the Confederate surrender?
Jefferson Davis
George McClelland
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
15
A Northerner who traveled to the South to do business after the war was called what?
Carpetbagger
Radical
Abolitionist
Scalawag
16
Where did the first fighting between North and South occur?
Fort Sumter
Fort Douglas
Fort Stanton
Fort Knox
17
What was the executive order that Lincoln gave that said the slaves were free?
Freedom Proclamation
Louisiana Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
18
Who invented the cotton gin, which made slavery more profitable?
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
19
Who is the man who led an attack on Harper's Ferry to get guns for a slave uprising?
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglas
John C. Calhoun
John Brown
20
Who was President of the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
Robert E. Lee
21
Who was the main military leader of the Southern Forces?
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
George McClelland
22
The fighting started elsewhere, but where was the first major battle of the Civil War fought?
Antietam
Gettysburg
Bull Run
Shenandoah
23
Which amendment altered the Constitution and freed the slaves?
The Tenth Amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
24
What was an abolitionist?
A person who supported slavery
A person who wanted to end the Confederacy some day
A person who wanted slavery ended now
A person who thought the U.S. should be abolished
25
What were the ships that dodged the Union warships called?
Scalawags
Monitors
Cotton scullers
Blockade runners
26
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Brown
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jefferson Davis
John Wilkes Booth
27
Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President?
George McClellan
Stephen Douglas
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
28
When the Confederates invaded Pennsylvania, where did the Union stop them at great loss?
Vicksburg
Shiloh
Gettysburg
Fredericksburg
29
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
Granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the U.S
Ended the Civil War
Ended slavery
Granted citizenship only to those born in the U.S.
30
What decade was the Civil War fought in?
1860's
1840's
1960's
1760's