History Test 7, Chapter 14

Question 1

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 1

Henry Clay

Question 2

The admission of what state in 1850 temporarily upset the balance between free and slave states?

Answer 2

California

Question 3

Where was the first shot of the Civil War fired?

Answer 3

Fort Sumter

Question 4

Which two men met at Appomattox Court House to discuss terms of surrender?

Answer 4

Lee and Grant

Question 5

Who was known as the ‘‘Angel of the Battlefield’’?

Answer 5

Clara Barton

Question 6

John C. Calhoun was a famous ‘‘states’ rights’’ spokesman from what state?

Answer 6

South Carolina

Question 7

How many states joined the Confederacy?

Answer 7

11

Question 8

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

Which man introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 9

Stephen Douglas

Question 10

What officer was 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

Fredericksburg

Answer 16

A. E. Burnside

Question 17

Chancellorsville

Answer 17

Joseph Hooker

Question 18

Antietam

Answer 18

George B. McClellan

Question 19

New Orleans

Answer 19

David Farragut

Question 20

Vicksburg

Answer 20

U. S. Grant

Question 21

Which Confederate general won the Battle of Chickamauga?

Answer 21

Braxton Bragg

He liked to brag about the Battle of Chickamauga.

Question 22

Name the Confederate general who won his nickname at Bull Run.

Answer 22

Stonewall Jackson

Question 23

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

Answer 23

George E. Pickett

Question 24

Which Southern general did Lee call the ‘‘eyes of the army’’?

Answer 24

Jeb Stuart

(Only Shafe will get this..
Minecraft.)

Question 25

What Confederate navy ship fought against the Monitor?

Answer 25

Merrimac

Question 26

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

Answer 26

1863

Question 27

General ___ 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

$.01

Question 31

____ ran for the Presidency as a Union party candidate in 1864.

Answer 31

Lincoln

Question 32

______ men died in the Civil War.

Answer 32

600,000

Question 33

The __ Amendment outlawed slavery.

Answer 33

13th

Question 34

A ____ was a Southerner who helped the carpetbaggers.

Answer 34

scalawag

Question 35

President Lincoln was shot by ______

Answer 35

John Wilkes Booth

Question 36

Who was the first President to be impeached?

Answer 36

Andrew Johnson

Question 37

Which amendment made former slaves citizens of the United States?

Answer 37

14th Amendment

Question 38

What agreement ended Reconstruction in the South?

Answer 38

Compromise of 1877

Question 39

Who won the Presidential election of 1868?

Answer 39

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 40

Name 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 a 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) small 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. The North did have the disadvantage of having to attack rather than defend.