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The American Civil War – Test 1
I.
True or False: Please indicate whether the following statements are true or
false by placing a check mark next to the appropriate response.
a. South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky were among the 11
states that seceded from the union known as the United States of America
in 1861. (5 pts.)
i. ___ true
ii. ___ false
b. The first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as 16th president of the United
States took place after the southern states had begun to secede from the
Union. (5 pts.)
i. ___ true
ii. ___ false
c. Abraham Lincoln was from a slaveholding family. (5 pts.)
i. ___ true
ii. ___ false
d. Mary Todd Lincoln was from a slaveholding family. (5 pts.)
i. ___ true
ii. ___ false
e. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, expressed
deep bitterness toward his rival, General Ulysses S. Grant, after
surrendering to the Union forces. (5 pts.)
i. ___ true
ii. ___ false
II.
Multiple Choice: Read the following quotes and circle the Roman numeral
next to the name of the person with whom this quote is most often associated:
a. “ ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave half free.” (5 pts.)
i. Jefferson Davis
ii. Harriet Beecher Stowe
iii. Abraham Lincoln
iv. Ulysses S. Grant
b. “It was at his dying bed and at his grave that I learned what a poor slave
mother may feel when her child is torn away from her. In those depths of
sorrow, which seemed to me immeasurable, it was my only prayer to God
that such anguish might not be suffered in vain.” (5 pts.)
i. Mary Todd Lincoln
ii. Harriet Beecher Stowe
iii. Susan B. Anthony
iv. Harriet Tubman
c. “There can be no freedom of trade where there is no freedom of man, for
the first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of
man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in
what manner his labour shall be employed.” (5 pts.)
i. Stephen Douglas
ii. Frederick Douglass
iii. Henry Carey
iv. W.E.B. Dubois
III.
Multiple answers: Please answer the following questions by circling the
Roman numeral next to all of the appropriate answers.
a. Which of the following immigrant groups are known to have fought for
the Union during the Civil War? (10 pts)
i. Italians
ii. Hungarians
iii. Chinese
iv. Vietnamese
b. Women were influential in the fight to end slavery. Which of the
following women openly fought for a constitutional amendment to end
slavery, and later fought for equal rights for all women? (10 pts.)
i. Harriet Beecher Stowe
ii. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
iii. Rose O’Neal Greenhow
iv. Susan B. Anthony
c. Which of the following slaveholding states remained loyal to the Union?
(10 pts.)
i. Kentucky
ii. Delaware
iii. Florida
iv. Arkansas
IV.
Short-answer questions: Give a short answer to the following questions. It is
not necessary to write your answer in a complete sentence.
a. What is the name of the man who served as president of the Confederate
States? (5 pts.)
b. What state was created when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861? (5
pts.)
V.
Matching: Abraham Lincoln made several memorable speeches before, during
and after the Civil War. Match the name of Lincoln’s speech to the place and
year it was given by drawing a line between the matching items in the two
columns below. (15 pts.)
Lyceum Address
Philadelphia, PA, 1861
Gettysburg Address
New York, NY, 1860
“House Divided” Speech
Springfield, IL 1838
Cooper Union Address
Springfield, IL, 1858
Address in Independence Hall Gettysburg, PA, 1863
VI.
Essay Question: Write a 3-4 paragraph essay addressing the following
question: How was the economy of the South different from the economy of
the North, and what role did this difference play in the development of the
war?
VII.
Calculated Question: It is important to have some idea of the number of
Confederate soldiers who came from slaveholding families, since these
soldiers had a greater stake in the outcome of the war than those from nonslaveholding families. The figures available to calculate this estimate vary
considerably depending on the expert and that archive from which they are
taken.
According to some experts, the number of soldiers in the Confederate Army is
estimated to be 600,000 and the percentage of soldiers from slaveholding
families is estimated to be 30%. If this were the case, how many soldiers in
the Confederate Army would come from slaveholding families?
You may do your calculation and place your answer in the space below.