PWCS Civil War Test Review

Question 1

Which battle was the first major clash of the Civil War, where confederate general Stonewall Jackson played a major role

Accepted Answer

Battle of Bull Run

Question 2

What was the result of differences about slavery between the eastern and western parts of Virginia?

Accepted Answer

West Virginia became a new state

Question 3

Which town was the captial of the Confederacy, and was burned by Confederates to keep war supplies from the Union.

Accepted Answer

Richmond

Question 4

African Americans were paid _______ than white soldiers.

Accepted Answer

less than

Question 5

Who were the enslaved men who helped the Confederates, and granted refruge by the Union Army as contraband.

Accepted Answer

Frank Baker, Sheppard Mallory, James Townsend

Question 6

Who led a revolt against slavery.

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 7

Select All: Many African Americans found work as __________, during the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Union Soliders, Laborers

Question 8

The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack to place near ________.

Accepted Answer

Norfolk and Hampton

Question 9

Who was an African American sailor, Union naval captain, elected to the US House of Representatives after the war.

Accepted Answer

Robert Smalls

Question 10

Why did some southern states secede from the Union in 1860?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln became president.

Question 11

What federal law required the capture and return of runaway eslaved people.

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 12

The Confederacy relied on Enslaved African Americans to _______ during the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

provide labor, raise crops

Question 13

Select All: What were the various experiences of Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Bowser

Accepted Answer

Nursed Soldiers on and off the battlefield, Worked as the conductor of the Underground Railroad., Spied for the Union

Question 14

Abolitionists are people who wanted to _________.

Accepted Answer

end slavery

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