The Civil War

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Question 1 of 44

What is Sectionalism and how does it relate to the Civil War? Pick the BEST answer.

Select one of the following:

When government starts to interfere with beleifs of the people → The South thought that the government interfered with their beleif that slavery should be allowed
When a war starts due to a country spliting into two seperate countries → The Civil War starts when the South seperates from the North
When a counrty splits into two new countries → The South seperated from the North
When one part of a country has different intrests than the rest of the country → The South wanted more state's rights and slavery

Explanation

Question 2 of 44

The president of the Union was _ and the president of the Confederacy was _.

Select one of the following:

Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln; George McClellan
George McClellan; Abraham Lincoln

Explanation

Question 3 of 44

Abraham Lincoln main goal when he started the war in the first place was to get rid of slavery.

Select one of the following:

True
False

Explanation

Question 4 of 44

A copperhead is a poisonous type of snake. This was also a nickname to people ____________________.

Select one of the following:

who were from the South, but fighting for the North
who were from the North, but fighting for the South
in the North who DIDN'T want a war to make America unified again
in the North who DID want a war to make America unified again

Explanation

Question 5 of 44

How many volunteers did Lincoln call for?

Select one of the following:

75,000
65,000
70,000
60,000

Explanation

Question 6 of 44

The first shot of the Civil War was in _____________.

Select one of the following:

Bull Run
Vicksburg
Fort Sumter
Gettysburg

Explanation

Question 7 of 44

This short-lived political party wanted to keep slavery out of the west. This group of people consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig and Democratic Party.

Select one of the following:

Republican Party
Free Soil Party
Democratic Party
Anti-Slavery Party

Explanation

Question 8 of 44

Why did the South want to seperate to create their own country?

Select one or more of the following:

They wanted to still have slavery.
They wanted the states to have more power in government.
They wanted to have more industry in their economey.
They wanted to have more agriculture in their economey.
They wanted to abolish slavery.

Explanation

Question 9 of 44

Where was the first MAJOR battle of the Civil War?

Select one of the following:

Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Fort Sumter

Explanation

Question 10 of 44

What were some advantages of the Confederates during the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Bigger population
Defensive war; most of the wars here
Stronger Industry = More guns
Better military generals
Railroad transportation

Explanation

Question 11 of 44

What were some advantages of the Union during the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Bigger population
Defensive war; most of the wars here
Stronger Industry = More guns
Better military generals
Railroad transportation

Explanation

Question 12 of 44

How long did the Civil War last? Was it longer or shorter than expected?

Select one of the following:

4 years → longer than expected
4 years → shorter than expected
6 years → longer than expected
6 years → shorter than expected

Explanation

Question 13 of 44

What is martial law?

Select one of the following:

The Army takes part of government by making the laws.
Ruling by the elected government rather than having army.
Ruling by the army rather than having elected government.
Ruling by both the army and the people.

Explanation

Question 14 of 44

Who was the first general appointed by Abraham Lincoln?

Select one of the following:

General Ambrose Burnside
General Ulysses S. Grant
General George B. McClellan
General Stonewall Jackson

Explanation

Question 15 of 44

Why was Lincoln dissatisfied with this general?

Select one or more of the following:

Lincoln found out that he was actually fighting to help the Confederates win the Civil War.
Lincoln saw that the general lost many of the battles for the Union.
The general hesitated a lot and was too cautious.
The general seemed to care more about his politics than the war.
The general was too viscous when fighting in the war.

Explanation

Question 16 of 44

Who did Lincoln put in charge after this general failed him?

Select one of the following:

General Ambrose Burnside
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Stonewall Jackson
General George B. McClellan

Explanation

Question 17 of 44

Who was the general after the general in question 16?

Select one of the following:

General Ambrose Burnside
General Stonewall Jackson
General George B. McClellan
General Ulysses S. Grant

Explanation

Question 18 of 44

Who was the commander and cheif of the Confederate Army?

Select one of the following:

General Robert E. Lee
General Stonewall Jackson
General Ulysses S. Grant
General George B. McClellan

Explanation

Question 19 of 44

An ironclad ship was a ship completely made of steel. These ships were so important because they weren't seriously damaged after a battle; this meant that both sides of the war still needed to work harder to fight off the opposing side. The Union's ironclad ship was the _ and the Confederate's ironclad ship was the __.

Select one of the following:

Merrimack; Monitor
Clermont; Monitor
Clermont; Merrimack
Monitor; Merrimack

Explanation

Question 20 of 44

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Select one of the following:

Maine became a slave state and Missouri became a free state; a slave line was created.
Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state; a slave line was created.
Used popular sovereignty to vote on a state to be a slave state in the Louisiana Purchase.
California became a free state and Missouri became a slave state; a slave line was created.

Explanation

Question 21 of 44

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Select one of the following:

California became a free state and Missouri became a slave state; a slave line was created.
Maine became a slave state and Missouri became a free state; a slave line was created.
Used popular sovereignty to vote on a state to be a slave state in the Louisiana Purchase.
Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state; a slave line was created.

Explanation

Question 22 of 44

What were the five parts of the Compramise of 1850?

Select one or more of the following:

Set up the Fugitive Slave Act
Banned slave trade in DC
Admitting California as a free state
Splitting up the Texas territory
Instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
Created a slave line
Canceled the Fugitive Slave Act

Explanation

Question 23 of 44

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

Select one or more of the following:

Jailed or fined people in the North who attempted to free slaves
Approved of the people in North to help slaves once they got to the North
Forced people in the North to send runaway slaves back to their owners
Allowed slaves to fight for the North

Explanation

Question 24 of 44

What were the states that were accepted into the Union even though they were slave states?

Select one or more of the following:

Kentucky
Missouri
Maryland
Deleware
West Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee

Explanation

Question 25 of 44

When General Lee found out that Jackson died, he said "I lost my right arm." This meant that Lee lost his main fighter that always helped him win the battles. What battle did Stonewall Jackson die in?

Select one of the following:

Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg

Explanation

Question 26 of 44

How did Stonewall Jackson get his nickname?

Select one of the following:

He held his ground in battle and commanded with respect and courage.
He was stubborn because he didn't want serve in the war.
He stood and he never let any Union troops pass by him without getting killed.
He was very tall.

Explanation

Question 27 of 44

Who won one of the bloodiest battles, the Battle of Shiloh?

Select one of the following:

(General Grant) The North
(General Lee) The South

Explanation

Question 28 of 44

Who won the Battle of Fredricksburg?

Select one of the following:

General Grant (The North)
General Lee (The South)

Explanation

Question 29 of 44

What was so important about the Battle of Vicksburg?

Select one or more of the following:

It cut off trade and travel for the South.
It cut off half of the South from the rest of the Confederacy.
It won the Civil War for the North.
It made the South have a chance of winning the Civil War.

Explanation

Question 30 of 44

What were some war tactics used MOST in the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Anaconda Plan
Sieges
Divide and Conquer
Ambushes
Charges

Explanation

Question 31 of 44

When Dorothea Dix saw the conditions at prisons and mental hospitals, she decided to______________.

Select one of the following:

reform or improve them
show the conditions to everyone
protest against them
appreciate them

Explanation

Question 32 of 44

_______________ was a hospital nurse and also created the American Red Cross in 1881.

Select one of the following:

Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton

Explanation

Question 33 of 44

A regiment is a unit in the army commanded by a colonel. What was the name of the first African American Regiment?

Select one of the following:

The 54th Regiment
The 44th Regiment
The African American Regiment
The 1st African American Regiment

Explanation

Question 34 of 44

In addition to the ironclad ships, what were some other new advancements in the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Minie Ball (Conical Bullet)
Farther Range Cannons
More Explosive Gunpowder
Tanks

Explanation

Question 35 of 44

Jefferson Davis had some trouble creating a strong centralized government in the Confederacy because the states wouldn't pay their taxes. He decided to make the ______________ to help this matter.

Select one of the following:

income tax law
slave tax law
Constitution
Compramise of 1850

Explanation

Question 36 of 44

Inflation is when the _ decreases and the increase. This happened to the South's currency.

Select one of the following:

Value; prices
Prices; value
Poverty; prices
Poverty; value

Explanation

Question 37 of 44

Who captured and destroyed Virginia?

Select one of the following:

General Philip Sheridan
General William Tecumseh Sherman
General Ulysses S. Grant

Explanation

Question 38 of 44

Who's plan for the war was to destroy everything in the Union troops' path except for the things they could steal (total war)?

Select one of the following:

General Ulysses S. Grant
General Philip Sheridan
General William Tecumseh Sherman

Explanation

Question 39 of 44

What captured and destroyed the city of Atlanta?

Select one of the following:

General William Tecumseh Sherman
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Philip Sheridan

Explanation

Question 40 of 44

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Lincoln, what did it do?

Select one of the following:

It made the slaves free.
It gave the slaves more hope of being free.
It made it impossible for slaves to be free.

Explanation

Question 41 of 44

What was the turning point of the Civil War?

Select one of the following:

The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Fredericksburg
The Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Vicksburg

Explanation

Question 42 of 44

Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech was the Gettysburg Address. It was important because it ____________________.

Select one of the following:

ended the Civil War
freed all slaves
honored those who died in the Civil War
honored those who died in the Battle of Gettysburg

Explanation

Question 43 of 44

Where did the Civil war end?

Select one of the following:

Appomattox Courthouse
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
New Orleans

Explanation

Question 44 of 44

Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and author wrote a book called ______________. It was about the cruelty of slavery and how the slaves were treated.

Select one of the following:

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Slavery Through the Eyes of a Slave
The Evils of slavery

Explanation

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Talks about the following topics: Abraham Lincoln, Battles of the Civil War, The Issue of Slavery, Medicine, and Famous Generals. *Make sure to read the explanations after you do the quiz because they have a lot of information.

The Civil War

Question 1 of 44

What is Sectionalism and how does it relate to the Civil War? Pick the BEST answer.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 44

The president of the Union was _______________ and the president of the Confederacy was _______________.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 44

Abraham Lincoln main goal when he started the war in the first place was to get rid of slavery.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 44

A copperhead is a poisonous type of snake. This was also a nickname to people ____________________.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 44

How many volunteers did Lincoln call for?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 44

The first shot of the Civil War was in _____________.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 44

This short-lived political party wanted to keep slavery out of the west. This group of people consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig and Democratic Party.

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 44

Why did the South want to seperate to create their own country?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 44

Where was the first MAJOR battle of the Civil War?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 44

What were some advantages of the Confederates during the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 44

What were some advantages of the Union during the Civil War?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 44

How long did the Civil War last? Was it longer or shorter than expected?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 44

What is martial law?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 44

Who was the first general appointed by Abraham Lincoln?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 44

Why was Lincoln dissatisfied with this general?

Select one or more of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 44

Who did Lincoln put in charge after this general failed him?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 44

Who was the general after the general in question 16?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 44

Who was the commander and cheif of the Confederate Army?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 44

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 44

What was the Missouri Compromise?

Select one of the following:

The president of the Union was _ and the president of the Confederacy was _.

Inflation is when the _ decreases and the increase. This happened to the South's currency.