Civil War Presentation Review Questions

Question 1

Who was the first person to find gold in Califonia?

Answer 1

James W. Marshall

Question 2

What was the main cause of mass immigration to California in 1849?

Answer 2

Gold Rush

Question 3

California became a state in 1850. What type of state was California admitted as?

Answer 3

Free State

Question 4

Robert E. Lee was the commander of the ______

Answer 4

Confederates

Question 5

The Battle of Gettysburg marked the ________ ________ of the Civil War.

Answer 5

Turning Point

Question 6

President Lincoln uses the dedication ceremony at the Gettysburg’s Soldiers’ National Cemetery to honor the fallen and reassert the purpose of the war in his historic __________ ___________.

Answer 6

Gettysburg Address

Question 7

_______________ case in which the Supreme Court stated enslaved people were not citizens of the U.S.

Answer 7

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 8

___________ worked in the Underground Railroad and protected fugitive slaves from being caught

Answer 8

John Brown

Question 9

_______________ was founded in 1848 with the purpose of stopping slavery from spreading to the southwest

Answer 9

Free Soil Party

Question 10

What senator was involved with Compromise of 1850?

Answer 10

Henry Clay

Question 11

Territories ______ of Missouri were divided as Kansas and Nebraska

Answer 11

West

Question 12

What state was admitted as free in The Compromise of 1850?

Answer 12

California

Question 13

What theater was Lincoln shot?

Answer 13

Ford Theater

Question 14

Booth shot Lincoln because he supported ______

Answer 14

Black Citizenship

Question 15

Booth escaped to ________ and met up with ___________

Answer 15

Maryland; David Herold

Question 16

What southern state was the first to secede?

Answer 16

South Carolina

Question 17

Who was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America?

Answer 17

Jefferson Davis

Question 18

How long was the president’s single term under the Confederacy?

Answer 18

Six years

Question 19

The Klu Klux Klan was started by ____________ ?

Answer 19

Confederate Veterans

Question 20

One goal of the white supremacists was to maintain ______ between races.

Answer 20

Separation

Question 21

Knights of White Camellia was based in _______ , and were not connected to the KKK.

Answer 21

Louisiana

Question 22

What was the main medicine that revolutionized the war?

Answer 22

Anesthesia

Question 23

The USS Monitor has rotating what? (3 things)

Answer 23

Gun turret, Low draft, and a Sleek profile

Question 24

They were a unit in the Union Army that were trained to quickly transfer the wounded

Answer 24

The Army Ambulance Corps

Question 25

Clara Barton was inspired to bring the _____ _______ ________________ to America after she saw it in Switzerland.

Answer 25

Red Cross Movement

Question 26

_____ _____ was the first woman in the United States to earn a medical degree.

Answer 26

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 27

_____ _____ _____ is the only female in history to receive the Medal of Honor.

Answer 27

Mary Edwards Walker

Question 28

What was the estimated number of slaves freed during the Underground Railroad?

Answer 28

25,000-50,000

Question 29

Who wrote the Underground Railroad book in 1872.

Answer 29

William Still

Question 30

What where the guides on the underground railroad called.

Answer 30

Conductors

Question 31

What was the area the first Battle of Bull Run took place?

Answer 31

Manassas Junction

Question 32

Did Stonewall Jackson's own men kill him or did the enemy?

Answer 32

Stonewall's own men killed him

Question 33

What was the deadliest day in American history?

Answer 33

Battle of Antietam

Question 34

How many states were readmitted into the Union during the summer of 1868?

Answer 34

7 States

Question 35

What states did Andrew Johnson try to reconstruct after Abraham Lincoln’s death?

Answer 35

The Confederate States

Question 36

What did the former slaves get stuck participating in where they would far the land in return for a place to stay and very little money?

Answer 36

Sharecropping

Question 37

The early Republican party consisted of?

Answer 37

Former slaves, Northern Protesters, Professionals, Former member of the Whig party, Prosperous Farmers, Business men. (Any answer could work.)

Question 38

The Republican party was founded in 1854 in response to ___

Answer 38

The Nebraska-Kansas Act

Question 39

Nicknamed the Grand Ol’ Party?

Answer 39

Republican Party