8th Grade History Test 7

Question 1

proposed the Compromise of 1850

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

the admission of this state in 1850 temporarily upset the balance between free and slave states

Answer 2

California

Question 3

the location of the first shot of the Civil War

Answer 3

Fort Sumter

Question 4

the two men who met at Appomattox Court House to discuss terms of surrender

Answer 4

Lee and Grant

Question 5

known as the “Angel of the Battlefield”

Answer 5

Clara Barton

Question 6

John C. Calhoun was a famous “states’ rights” spokesman from this state

Answer 6

South Carolina

Question 7

number of states that joined the Confederacy

Answer 7

11

Question 8

wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 9

Stephen Douglas

Question 10

officer responsible for capturing John Brown in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

Answer 10

Robert E. Lee

Question 11

first major battle of the war

Answer 11

Bull Run

Question 12

bloody battle fought in Tennessee

Answer 12

Shiloh

Question 13

battle in which the Confederate army split and lured the Union into a trap

Answer 13

Chancellorsville

Question 14

bloody battle fought in Pennsylvania

Answer 14

Gettysburg

Question 15

bloodiest single day of the war

Answer 15

Antietam

Question 16

general at Fredericksburg

Answer 16

A. E. Burnside

Question 17

general at Chancellorsville

Answer 17

Joseph Hooker

Question 18

general at Antietam

Answer 18

George B. McClellan

Question 19

general at New Orleans

Answer 19

David Farragut

Question 20

general at Vicksburg

Answer 20

U. S. Grant

Question 21

Confederate general who won the Battle of Chickamauga

Answer 21

Braxton Bragg

Question 22

the Confederate general who won his nickname at Bull Run

Answer 22

Stonewall Jackson

Question 23

Confederate general who led the dramatic charge on Cemetery Ridge at the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 23

George E. Pickett

Question 24

Southern general that Lee called the “eyes of the army”

Answer 24

Jeb Stuart

Question 25

Confederate navy ship that fought against the Monitor

Answer 25

Merrimac

Question 26

The Emancipation Proclamation of ___ freed slaves in the states which had seceded

Answer 26

1863

Question 27

the general who burned Atlanta, Savannah, and Columbia

Answer 27

Sherman

Question 28

After the Confederates surrendered, General ___ allowed them to keep their animals and rifles

Answer 28

Grant

Question 29

In the ___, a man could avoid the draft by paying a $300.00 exemption

Answer 29

North

Question 30

By 1865, the Confederate dollar was worth little more than

Answer 30

1 cent

Question 31

ran for the Presidency as a Union party candidate in 1864

Answer 31

Lincoln

Question 32

number of men who died in the Civil War

Answer 32

600,000

Question 33

amendment that outlawed slavery

Answer 33

13th Amendment

Question 34

a Southerner who helped the carpetbaggers

Answer 34

scalawag

Question 35

shot President Lincoln

Answer 35

John Wilkes Booth

Question 36

the first President to be impeached

Answer 36

Andrew Johnson

Question 37

amendment that made former slaves citizens of the United States

Answer 37

14th Amendment

Question 38

agreement that ended Reconstruction in the South

Answer 38

Compromise of 1877

Question 39

won the Presidential election of 1868

Answer 39

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 40

the man who invented the symbols for the leading political parties: a donkey for the Democrats and an elephant for the Republicans

Answer 40

Thomas Nast

Question 41

What did Booker T. Washington believe the freed slaves should do to take their proper place in American society?

Answer 41

Booker T. Washington believed that hard work, practical education, and spiritual development would put the freed slaves on an level of integrity and character that would win the respect of all Americans.

Question 42

Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the North and South in the beginning of the Civil War.

Answer 42

The South had several advantages: (1) they were motivated by protection of home and family, (2) they had stockpiled supplies in anticipation of the war, and (3) they had better military leaders. Disadvantages in the South included: (1) no means of insuring future supplies, (2) no industrial base and (3) sally population.

The North also had several advantages: (1) they had a larger population (4 times more than the South) (2) they had a large industrial base to manufacture war materials, (3) they had a rail system to transport troops and supplies. Then North did have the disadvantage of having to attack rather than defend.