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Questions about the Civil War. Not responsible if mistakes are made.
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1
What was Lincoln's problem with General McCellan?
McClellan was trained as an admiral in the navy.
McClellan was too eager to fight the enemy.
McClellan was too reluctant to attack the enemy.
McClellan was a poor organizer and trainer of soldiers.
2
The Emancipation Proclamation ________________.
freed all the slaves in the Confederacy.
ended slavery everywhere.
declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
declared war on the Confederacy.
3
Who wouldn't move the army until he was absolutely sure he would win?
John Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
George McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
4
Which Union strategy kept the Confederates from selling cotton and buying supplies?
anaconda strategy
march to the sea
naval blockade
total war
5
What are the rights that all citizens are supposed to have.
slavery
cultivate
self-evident
civil rights
6
What was the secret excape route used by slaves to escape to the north called?
Gettysburg Address
The Underground Railroad.
Missouri Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
7
Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
8
What invention made cotton highly profitable?
saw
printing press
plow
cotton gin
9
Which man led the attack on the U.S. government arsenal at Harpers Ferry, in the hope of giving guns to slaves?
John Brown
Fredrick Douglas
Steven A. Douglas
Andrew Johnson
10
The civil war began in what year?
1860
1864
1861
1862
11
The Missouri Compromise ________________.
Divided the Missouri Territory into the states of Missouri and Illinois.
Allowed Missouri to become a state if it outlawed slavery.
Created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south.
Allowed Missouri to become a state without Congress's approval.
12
What is the system called in which people are legally owned by another and forced to work without pay?
unalienable
cultivate
slef-evident
slavery
13
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that _____________.
Slaves were property.
The Compromise of 1850 was against the constitution.
Slavery was illegal.
Dred Scott was a free man.
14
What were the groups of people called that campaigned against slavery?
revolutionist
abolitionists
Democrats
Republicans
15
People exercise me when they are being careful. What am I?
strategy
tactic
decree
caution
16
Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?
A Civil War nurse.
The wife of Robert E. Lee.
A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
17
I am a plan of action used to attain a certain goal. That makes me a _________.
mystify
strategy
decisiveness
bonus
18
What was considered the bloodiest battle in the Civil War?
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
Antietam
Bull Run
19
What rights can never be taken away?
slavery
self-evident
cultivate
unalienable
20
What was the south's main source of income?
tobacco
cloth
cotton
sugar
21
Who wanted to divide the South into three parts?
Winfield Scott
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
George McClellan
22
What was the capital of the Union?
Washington D. C.
Norfolk, VA
Richmond, VA
Gettysburg, PA
23
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall Jackson
Stephen A. Douglas
