History - Civil War Test

Question 1

What was the first state to leave the Union and start the Confederacy.

Answer 1

South Carolina

Question 2

Where did the Lincoln debates take place?

Answer 2

Illinois

Question 3

The first shots of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter off the coast of the state of _____.

Answer 3

South Carolina

Question 4

What state joined the U.S. as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 4

Maine

Question 5

Where was John Brown captured?

Answer 5

Harper’s Ferry

Question 6

What city was Ford’s Theater in?

Answer 6

Washington DC

Question 7

Lincoln’s plan of forgiveness called for _____% of eligible voters to take a loyalty oath after the Civil War.

Answer 7

10

Question 8

Approximately how many people died during the Civil War?

Answer 8

600,000

Question 9

What was the name for slaves who were seen as murderous and blood thirsty?

Answer 9

Nat

Question 10

What was John Wilkes Booth’s profession.

Answer 10

actor

Question 11

What state was Andrew Jackson from?

Answer 11

Tennessee

Question 12

What territory became violent as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.

Answer 12

Kansas

Question 13

The focus of the nation turned _____ after 1877.

Answer 13

West

Question 14

What state was denied admission for several years because abolitionists were concerned that several slave states would be created?

Answer 14

Texas

Question 15

What group was put into place after the Civil War and helped former slaves and war refugees with food, medicine and education?

Answer 15

The Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 16

The Military Reconstruction Act divided the South into how many military districts after the Civil War?

Answer 16

Five

Question 17

A _____ was a Northern Republican who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from unstable financial and political conditions.

Answer 17

carpetbagger

Question 18

Where did most former slaves find jobs in the South after the Civil War?

Answer 18

farms

Question 19

Who was a radical democrat?

Answer 19

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 20

When did the Civil War officially end?

Answer 20

April 9, 1865

Question 21

What court decision stated that “separate but equal” facilities was constitutional.

Answer 21

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 22

How many other government officials were killed on the same night as Lincoln?

Answer 22

None

Question 23

What state was admitted as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 23

California

Question 24

What made provisions for free states to be eventually added when these territories had enough people for statehood.

Answer 24

The Northwest Ordinance

Question 25

Who beat up Charles Sumner with a cane for giving a bad speech about the South?

Answer 25

Preston Brooks

Question 26

When did the the Republican Party begin as an abolitionist party?

Answer 26

In the 1850s

Question 27

What was the perception of Douglas during the Lincoln/Douglas debate?

Answer 27

That he weakened his stance on slavery