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Civil War Review
Civil War Review
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A review of the causes, main events, figures and outcomes of the Civil War.
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1
Southerners believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal.
False
True
2
The attack on this fort in South Carolina officially started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Fort Knox
Fort Lee
Fort McHenry
3
Who was a famous nurse who founded the American Red Cross?
Harriet Tubman
Mary Bowser
Clara Barton
Elizabeth Van Lew
4
More than 500,000 people lost their lives during the Civil War...
False
True
5
Popular sovereignty is:
The idea that people in the state have the right to vote to decide on laws.
The idea that people in the state have no right to vote to decide on laws.
The idea that people in the state should be required to attend school.
The idea that people in the state should pay taxes.
6
This woman was wanted by southerners for helping slaves escape via the Underground Railroad.
Deborah Sampson
Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
7
Who was highly honored for his bravery, later was the first African American elected to the House of Representatives?
Frederick Douglass
James Armistead Lafayette
Benjamin Banneker
Robert Smalls
8
Who encouraged the end of slavery?
Politicians
Laborers
Immigrants
Abolitionists
9
Which battle was the turning point in favor of the Union?
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of Vicksburg
10
Which state was the first to secede from the United States in 1860?
Maryland
Texas
North Carolina
South Carolina
11
Which political party emerged in the 1850s (and included Abraham Lincoln)?
Whigs
Democrats
Republicans
12
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as?
Secession
Break Up
Unionization
13
Who was appointed general of the Confederate army and remained loyal to his state of Virginia?
Ulysses S. Grant
George McClellan
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Robert E. Lee
14
After the election of who in 1860 led South Carolina to secede from the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglass
Andrew Johnson
Henry Clay
15
Which leader was an enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
16
Which Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a state with slavery, with Maine entering as a free state?
Compromise of 1850
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1877
Missouri Compromise
17
Which Compromise brought California into the United States as a free state?
Three-Fifths Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
18
2/3 of all deaths in the war occurred from:
Disease
Lack of food and water
Battle
19
Who was appointed to President of the Confederate States?
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglass
John Tyler
20
General of the Union army that defeated the South and won the Civil War
Stonewall Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
21
Border states were:
Slave states that remained in the Union
Free states in the Confederacy
Free states in the Union
Slave states that seceded and joined the Confederacy
22
Which new state was created from southern counties that wanted to stay in the Union?
Vermont
North Carolina
West Virginia
Minnesota
23
Which slave state remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War?
Kentucky
Maryland
North Carolina
Virginia
24
Emancipation Proclamation:
Only freed enslaved persons in the South
Only freed enslaved men
Freed all enslaved persons
Only freed enslaved persons in the border states
25
Where did the Civil War officially end with Lee surrendering to Grant in 1865?
Gettysburg, PA
Fort Sumter, SC
Appomattox Courthouse, VA
Washington D.C.
26
Lincoln's goal during the Civil War was to what?
Preserve the Union
Punish the South
Let the South Secede
