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Elementary/Middle Division
Theme Round
The Civil War
2015-2016 Local Tournament Questions
TWO POINT QUESTIONS
1. How did the Civil War begin?
A. Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter,
South Carolina.
B. Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter,
North Carolina.
C. Confederate troops attacked federal forts
off the coast of Florida.
D. Union troops attacked Confederate forts
off the coast of Florida.
2. Which Union general became famous
for capturing Atlanta on his devastating
“march” through Georgia?
A. Phillip Sheridan
B. George Meade
C. William T. Sherman
D. Joseph Hooker
3. Which former slave became a great
speaker and traveled all over the North
promoting abolition?
A. Frederick Douglass
B. Isabel Sojourner Truth
C. Dred Scot
D. Harriet Tubman
4. Which Confederate General received
his famous nickname at the First Battle
of Bull Run?
A. James Long Street
B. Robert E. Lee
C. P. G. T. Beauregard
D. Thomas Jackson
5. This political party won the Presidential
Election of 1860 without carrying one
Southern State. Many Southern leaders
believed they lost their representation in
government and believed secession was their
only recourse. What was the name of this
sectional political party?
A. No-Nothing Party
B. Whigs
C. Democrats
D. Republican
6. Which movement did Southerners
believe threatened their economic
stability?
A. Antebellum Movement
B. Suffrage Movement
C. Temperance Movement
D. Abolitionist Movement
FOUR POINT QUESTIONS
7. Many people believed that William
Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper
was a catalyst for the Civil War. What was
the name of this newspaper?
A. Liberator
B. Emancipator
C. Boston Evening Transcript
D. The Ariel
8. In which state did the Battle of
Shiloh take place?
A. Virginia
B. Kentucky
C. Tennessee
D. West Virginia
9. Who led the raid against John
Brown on the Harpers Ferry arsenal?
A. Robert E. Lee
B. George McClellan
C. Stonewall Jackson
D. Jefferson Davis
10. Which general devised the plan for
strangling the Confederacy known as
the “Anaconda Plan”?
A. Ulysses S. Grant
B. Benjamin Butler
C. Winfield Scott
D. George McClellan
11. Which Confederate sympathizer was
vehement and strongly opposed to the
abolition of slavery, and assassinated Lincoln
at Ford’s Theater?
A. Lee Harvey Oswald
B. Leon Czolgosz
C. Charles J. Guiteau
D. John Wilkes Booth
12. Who was the Union General of the
Potomac that defeated Robert E. Lee at
the Battle of Gettysburg?
A. Phillip Sheridan
B. George Meade
C. William T. Sherman
D. Joseph Hooker
SIX POINT QUESTIONS
13. This Union Admiral became famous for
capturing New Orleans and for his quote, “Damn
the torpedoes, full speed ahead”. Who was he?
A. David Farragut
B. John Ericsson
C. Oliver Hazard Perry
D. Samuel Phillips Lee
14. This Union commander was criticized by
Lincoln because of his inability to act and
later ran against Lincoln in the Presidential
election of 1864. Who was this Union
commander?
A. Ambrose E. Burnside
B. George McClellan
C. Ulysses S. Grant
D. Joseph Hooker
15. A crisis erupted between the Union and
Great Britain after two Confederate envoys
sailing to Great Britain aboard a British mail
ship were taken from the ship. Lincoln had
the envoys released and averted a war with
Britain. What was the name of this incident?
A. Trent Affair
B. XYZ Affair
C. The Navigation Act
D. The Crittenden Compromise
16. Which general was the overall commander
of the Union forces at the Battle of
Gettysburg?
A. Phillip Sheridan
B. George Meade
C. William T. Sherman
D. Joseph Hooker
17. What led to the violence in Kansas in 1855?
A. The repeal of the Compromise of 1850
B. The election of Abraham Lincoln as
President
C. The verdict in the Dred Scott v Sandford
D. The rivalry between proslavery and
antislavery settlers
18. What compromise did Henry Clay propose
for admitting Missouri into the Union?
A. Admit Missouri as a slave state and
Kansas as a free state.
B. Admit Missouri as a slave state and
Maine as a free state.
C. Admit Missouri as a slave state and
outlaw slavery in all new states
from that time forward.
D. Admit Missouri as a slave state and
have all new states from that time
forward decide if they wanted
slavery.