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Civil War Test
Directions: For each following battle, indicate which side won the war. Do so by
marking the following letters on your Scantron sheet “A” for Union, or “B” for
Confederacy
_____1. Gettysburg
_____2. 1st Bull Run
_____3. Shiloh
_____4. Vicksburg
_____5. Appomattox
_____6. Fort Sumter
_____7. Forts Henry and Donnelson
_____8. Antietam
_____9. Atlanta
_____10. Petersburg
_____11. Fredericksburg
_____12. Chancellorsville
_____13. Which of the following was a cause of the Civil War?
A. Slavery
B. Argument over states’ rights C. Tariffs
D. All of these were causes
_____14. What was the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It freed all the slaves
. It freed slaves in the North
It allowed West Virginia into the Union
It shifted the focus of the war and kept foreign powers from allying themselves
with the Confederacy.
_____15. The turning Point of the war in the West
_____16. The turning point of the war in the East
_____17. Battle where Stonewall Jackson was
shot and eventually died from that wound;
“Lee’s Greatest Victory”
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Atlanta
Vicksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
_____18. Beginning of “Total War”; helped Lincoln win re-election in 1864
_____19. Victory that allowed Lincoln to issue
the Emancipation Proclamation.
________________________________________________________________________
_____20. Cut off the Confederates’ use of the
Tennessee River and vital rail lines; Gave
the Union control of Kentucky and the Ohio R.
_____21. First shots fired of the Civil War;
only battle with no casualties
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
First Bull Run
Fort Sumter
Frederickburg
Petersburg
Fort Henry and Fort
Donnelson
_____22. Last major battle of the war; siege of
city outside Richmond that lasted almost
a year; “Battle of the Crater”
_____23. First major land battle of the war;
“The Battle of Blunders”; “The Great Skedaddle”
_____24. Burnside ordered a charge towards
entrenched Confederates up Marye’s heights; only
battle in which Burnside led
_____25. What did Lincoln mean in the Gettysburg Address when he said the following
line: “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion…”
A. The Union should give up
B. The Confederacy should give up.
C. Do not give up because to give up would mean the men who fought and died at
Gettysburg to keep the nation whole would have died for no reason
D. Slaves should give up hope of ever being free
_____26. 13th Amendment
_____27. 14th Amendment
A. Gave free black men the right to vote
B. Gave equal citizenship to all citizens regardless
of race
C. Made slavery illegal in ALL parts of the US
_____28. 15th Amendment
________________________________________________________________________
_____29. Union Commander at Antietam
_____30. Confederate Commander at Antietam
_____31. Union Commander at First Bull Run
A.
B.
C.
D.
US Grant
Robert E. Lee
George McClellan
Braxton Bragg
_____32. Confederate Commander at First Bull Run
_____33. Confederate Commander at Gettysburg
_____34. Union Commander at Gettysburg
_____35. Confederate Commander at First Bull Run
_____36. Confederate Commander at Fort Sumter
A. PGT Beauregard
B. George Gordon
Meade
C. Robert E Lee
D. Robert Anderson
E. Ambrose Burnside
_____37. Union Commander at Fort Sumter
_____38. Northerner who moves south to get rich
during Reconstruction
_____39. Laws passed during immediately after the
war ended to restrict rights to African Americans;
not able to move cities; must call a white man they
contract with “master”; couldn’t serve on a jury
A.
B.
C.
D.
Jim Crow Laws
Ku Klux Klan
Black Codes
Freedman’s
Bureau
E. Carpetbagger
_____40. Laws passed after Reconstruction to make life
difficult for African Americans by separating them;
named after a character from a minstrel show
_____41. Organization formed to stop African Americans from voting;
associated with night raids on houses in hoods and robes to terrorize African
Americans into not voting
_____42. Agency established to help the newly freed slaves during Reconstruction;
gave them “40 acres and a mule” originally
_____43. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
_____44. Radical Republican Plan for Reconstruction
_____45. Vice President who took over after
Lincoln was assassinated
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
John Wilkes Booth
10% Plan
Rutherford B. Hayes
Andrew Johnson
Wade-Davis Bill
_____46. The man who assassinated Lincoln
_____47. President that ended Reconstruction
_____48. How did Reconstruction end?
A. The South was successfully integrated back into the Union with no hard
feelings
B. It didn’t end; it just caused more problems including another war between
North and South
C. US Grant defeated Robert E. Lee
D. There was a contested election in 1776 that resulted in a deal that made
Rutherford B. Hayes president in exchange for him ending the Reconstruction
era even though few problems were resolved
_____49. Kansas- Nebraska Act
_____50. Bleeding Kansas
_____51. Missouri Compromise
_____52. Compromise of 1850
_____53. Wilmot Proviso
A. Maintained the balance of power in the
Senate by allowing for the addition of one
slave state per every free state joining the
Union, Established the line 36˚ 30’ N as a
boundary between free and slave territories
B. Attempted legislation to ban slavery in any
territory gained from Mexico in the
Mexican American War
C. Allowed for Popular Sovereignty to
determine the fate of slavery in the new
territories; led to bloody conflict
D. Bloody conflict between Pro-slavery and
Anti-slavery forces in the Kansas territory
E. Allowed California to enter as a free state
and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
_____54. Harriet Tubman
_____55. John Parker
_____56. Frederick Douglas
_____57. John Rankin
_____58. William Lloyd Garrison
A. Abolitionist who wrote a
newspaper called “the Liberator”
B. Man who purchased his freedom
then helped slaves escape on the
Underground Railroad through
Ripley, Ohio
C. Owned “The House on the Hill” in
Ripley, Ohio
D. Called “Moses” because she led so
many people out of slavery to
freedom
E. Escaped slave who wrote an
autobiography and purchased his
freedom with the money; wrote an
Anti-slavery newspaper called “The
North Star
_____59. What was the name of the Union battle plan to surround and defeat the South?
A. Copperhead Plan
B. Anaconda Plan
C. Boa Constrictor Plan
D. Suffocation Plan
_____60. Which of the following were advantages the North had over the South during
the war?
A. Better officers and cavalry troops
B. Fighting on their own territory in defense of their homeland
C. Fighting for the states’ rights which was a very important concept to the North
D. More people, better equipment, more money, more factories, and more
transportation routes including more railroads