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Civil War & Reconstruction

Quiz by Robert Rhodes

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  • Q1
    Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
    Abraham Lincoln
    Jefferson Davis
    Ulysses S. Grant
    John C. Calhoun
    30s
  • Q2
    He was a proslavery US Senator that said slavery was a "necessary good, a positive good".
    Jefferson Davis
    William T. Sherman
    John C. Calhoun
    Stonewall Jackson
    30s
  • Q3
    All of the following describe the North EXCEPT
    larger population
    agriculture based economy
    industrial based
    more educated population
    30s
  • Q4
    This group wanted to punish the South for the Civil War.
    Scalawags
    Radical Republicans
    Democrats
    Ku Klux Klan
    30s
  • Q5
    A person that supports ending slavery is called
    a Radical Republican
    a scalawag
    a copperhead
    an abolitionist
    30s
  • Q6
    The period immediately following the Civil War up to 1877 is called
    Emancipation Proclamation
    Reconstruction
    Total War
    secession
    30s
  • Q7
    In 1863, this freed slaves in the rebellious states.
    Anaconda Plan
    10% Plan
    Gettysburg Address
    Emancipation Proclamation
    30s
  • Q8
    This was the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
    Antietam
    Chicamauga
    Gettysburg
    Vicksburg
    30s
  • Q9
    This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
    Bull Run
    Gettysburg
    Ft. Sumter
    Antietam
    30s
  • Q10
    The first battle of the war that proved the war was going to be long and bloody. The Confederates won.
    Ft. Sumter
    Harpers Ferry
    Vicksburg
    Bull Run
    30s
  • Q11
    This Norther abolitionist planned to attack Harper's Ferry and start a slave uprising.
    Robert G. Shaw
    Frederick Douglass
    Nat Turner
    John Brown
    30s
  • Q12
    Escaped slave who created an uprising, which led to the death of many white people in the South.
    Frederick Douglass
    John Brown
    Nat Turner
    William T. Sherman
    30s
  • Q13
    The trip between Africa and North American of the slave trade is known as the
    Underground Railroad
    Northern Expedition
    Middle Passage
    Columbian Exchange
    30s
  • Q14
    Harriet Tubman was a
    conductor on the underground railroad
    scalawag
    proslavery Senator
    general for the South
    30s
  • Q15
    Who was the commander of the Confederate Army?
    Lee
    Sherman
    Grant
    Jackson
    30s

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