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Civil War Review
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Created for an 8th Grade US History classroom.
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1
During the Civil War, the northern states are known as:
Confederacy
Union
2
What was the most important cash crop grown in the Southern US in the 1860s?
Corn
Cotton
Wheat
Tobacco
3
This man, a violent abolitionist, was considered to be a martyr for the cause of freedom:
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
John C Calhoun
John Brown
4
A slave who worked in planting and picking cotton was known as:
overseer
cotton slave
domestic slave
field hand
5
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
North Carolina
Georgia
South Carolina
Mississippi
6
A slave who worked in the house serving food and doing laundry was known as:
domestic slave
homie
servant
house wife
7
People who worked on the Underground Railroad were known as what?
Freedom Seekers
The Friends of the Slaves
Abolitionists
Antislavery
8
How long did President Lincoln (and the Union) think the Civil War would last?
1 year
1 month
90 days
4 years
9
Which two groups of people fought during "Bleeding Kansas"?
North & South
Missouri & Kansas
Blacks & Whites
Proslavery & Antislavery
10
Which court case decided that banning slavery was unconstitutional b.c of property rights?
Taney v. Scott
5th Amendment
Brown v. Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford
11
The system of safe houses that helped to lead slaves to freedom is known as:
Underground Railroad
Slave Escape Route
Window Lanterns
UGRR
12
What does the word secede mean?
To formally withdraw
To be passionate
To become your own country
To be really good at something
13
Who became the president of the Confederate States of America?
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Calhoun
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
14
This woman was known as "The Moses of Her People".
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Peg Leg Joe
15
This says that runaway slaves must be returned to the South, regardless of where they're found:
Dred Scott Decision
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slave Codes
16
During the Civil War, the southern states are known as:
Union
Confederacy
17
Slave codes made it a crime to teach African Americans what?
to start a fire
to swim
to ride a horse
to read and write
18
Which act states that people within a state should vote to be a 'slave' or 'free' state?
Bleeding Kansas
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
19
Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott decision?
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
Roger B. Taney
Abraham Lincoln
20
When did the Civil War officially begin?
When someone invented slavery
When SC seceded
After the firing on Ft. Sumter
When Lincoln became president
21
What was the "last straw" before the South began to secede?
Bleeding Kansas
Compromise of 1850
Underground Railroad
Lincoln's election
22
What current US state gained its statehood DURING the Civil War?
New Mexico
Ohio
Virginia
West Virginia
23
Which one of these states joined the Confederacy after the war began?
Tennessee
Maryland
Alabama
Missiouri
24
This song is an example of what?
a folk song
a spiritual
a church song
a bible story
25
What was "The Drinking Gourd" that slaves followed?
Ohio River
Gourds hanging in trees to show the way
Lanterns
The Big Dipper
26
Slavery was declining until Eli Whitney patented this invention:
Cotton Gin
Steel Plow
Steamboat
Power Loom