Civil War Quiz

Question 0

Why was the Missouri Compromise made

Answer 0

Because of the disagreement between the north and the south of how to count slaves, for taxation or representation

Question 1

Where was the Missouri Compromise made

Answer 1

The constitutional convention

Question 2

What did slaves count as

Answer 2

3/5 of a person for taxation & representation

Question 3

What kind of state did Missouri want to enter the union as

Answer 3

A slave state

Question 4

How did the Missouri Compromise keep the balance

Answer 4

Maine broke off of Massachusetts and became a free state while Missouri became a slave state

Souther boundary of Missouri stretched west and there was no slavery north of that line

Question 5

What was the compromise of 1850

Answer 5

California wanted to be admitted as a free state in 1849. To keep the balance they strengthened slave laws. The south believed this would undermine the Underground Railroad

Question 6

What is popular sovereignty

Answer 6

When the people vote on weather a state will be a free state or a slave state

Question 7

Who were the free soil party

Answer 7

Abolishinists who were against slavery

Question 8

What political party were the people of the free soil party a party of

Answer 8

Any

Question 9

Why did the Kansas and Nebraska act happen

Answer 9

The people of these states got to vote weather to be free states or slave states even though both states were north of the line. This lead to violence from both sides

Question 10

Who was Dred Scott

Answer 10

A slave who’s owner brought to the north. He sued for his freedom. His case went to the Supreme Court. The ruling was that he wasn’t allowed ha freedom and was just property

Question 11

Who was Roger Taney

Answer 11

He was the Supreme Court Justice who ruled Dred Scott’s case and said he was only a piece of property

Question 12

What was the Underground Railroad

Answer 12

A pathway of buildings(stations) that slaves would travel to up north with leaders(conductors) to their freedom

Question 13

Who was the best known conductor on the Underground Railroad and why

Answer 13

Harriet Tubman

She’d pull out a gun and threaten to shoot anyone who’d try to go back. She never lost a slave

Question 14

Who won the 1860 presidential election

Answer 14

Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

How’d the election lead to the civil war

Answer 15

Because the south hated Abraham Lincoln and some southern states succeeded

Question 16

What was the first state to succeed

Answer 16

South Carolina

Question 17

How’d Fort Sumter contribute to the Civil War

Answer 17

Located in South Carolina, is a union fort so since South Carolina succeeded, the union wanted it back and opened fire

Question 18

Battle of Antietam

Answer 18

Bloodiest day of the war

Question 19

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 19

3 day battle in Pennsylvania, the union had the high ground(the ridge), the south kept charging and failed. It was a turning point in the war, the south had to many casualties to keep fighting

Question 20

Who delivered the Gettysburg Address

Answer 20

Abraham Lincoln

Question 21

Who was Robert E. Lee

Answer 21

Military commander of the Confederateforces(the south)

Question 22

Who was Grant

Answer 22

Commander of the Union forces(the north)

Question 23

What does Grant do after the war

Answer 23

Become the 18th president

Question 24

Grant is on what bill of U.S. currency

Answer 24

$50 bill

Question 25

Who is Jefferson Davis

Answer 25

The president of the Confederacy

Question 26

What is the capital of the Confederacy

Answer 26

Richmond Virginia

Question 27

What was the North’s strategy to win the war

Answer 27

Blockade southern ports

Capture Richmond Virginia(Confederate Capitol)

Question 28

What was the south’s strategy to win the war

Answer 28

To hold on since they knew the land

Question 29

What was the emancipation proclamation supposed to do

Answer 29

Free confederate slaves who lived in confederate states

Question 30

What was the southern economy like

Answer 30

Lots of agriculture

Question 31

What was the northern economy like

Answer 31

Very industrialized

Question 32

What was the souths #1 crop

Answer 32

Cotton

Question 33

What happened at Appomattox

Answer 33

Lee surrendered to Grant, Lincoln ordered Grant to be generous and let all the confederate soldiers go home, have the soldiers claim their animals, and Grant gave food to Lee for 25,000 men

Question 34

Who was John W. Booth

Answer 34

He assassinated Lincoln

Question 35

Who is Andrew Johnson

Answer 35

The next president after Lincoln, before was Lincoln’s Vice President

Question 36

Why did both sides have to institute a draft during the war

Answer 36

Because deaths were rising and the amount of soldiers were going down

Question 37

How’d men in the north get out of the draft

Answer 37

By paying $300 or hiring a substitute to fight for them

Question 38

What was the age range for the draft at one point

Answer 38

15-50 years old

Question 39

Why was finance income tax used during the war

Answer 39

This was a way for both sides to finance the war