Civil War Exam

Question 1

Who was the general of the North?

Answer 1

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 2

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Answer 2

Jefferson Davis

Question 3

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 3

It was a Union victory. It changed the tide of the Civil War. Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg address following the battle

Question 4

Frederick Douglas

Answer 4

Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He wrote a book about his life as a slave.

Question 5

Dred Scott

Answer 5

A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott who lived in a free state and territory, where slavery was prohibited, was not considered free.

Question 6

Underground Railroad

Answer 6

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States. It was used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Question 7

Fort Sumter

Answer 7

The first battle of the Civil War

Question 8

Vicksburg

Answer 8

Located on the Mississippi river, it was an important victory for the North.

Question 9

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 9

He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

Question 10

1860 Presidential Election

Answer 10

Lincoln still managed to win the election by collecting all the votes in the North, and his name wasn’t on the ballot at all in the South.

Question 11

Civil War definition and dates (what year did it start and end?)

Answer 11

A war between citizens of the same country.

1861 – 1865

Question 12

Slavery

Answer 12

Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work.

Question 13

Abolition

Answer 13

Abolition is the act of getting rid of something, like the abolition of slavery.

Question 14

Who was the general of the South?

Answer 14

Robert E Lee

Question 15

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 15

If the Union wins all slaves will be free

Question 16

Conscription

Answer 16

Compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service

Question 17

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 17

A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.

Question 18

“Total War”

Answer 18

A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.

Question 19

King Cotton

Answer 19

To claim the feasibility of secession and to prove there was no need to fear a war with the northern states.

Question 20

Women role in the war

Answer 20

Women dressed as men and fought in the war, cooked and nursed soldiers, and took their husband’s jobs back at home.

Question 21

Was education in the South discouraged or encouraged? What about the North?

Answer 21

Education in the South was not encouraged, while education in the North was encouraged.

Question 22

Who was the president of the Union?

Answer 22

Abraham Lincoln