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Important People of the American Civil War

Quiz by KALEIGH WEHMEYER

Grade 5
Social Studies
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    16th POTUS; kept the country together during the Civil War. Supported the Emancipation Proclamation and gave the Gettysburg Address. Assassinated after the war.
    Abraham Lincoln
    30s
  • Q2
    CW general; battle victories led to Lincoln make him General of the entire Union Army. Confederate Army surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House. Became 18th POTUS.
    Ulysses S. Grant
    30s
  • Q3
    Escaped slavery; great public speaker, leader of the abolitionist movement (make slavery illegal); adviser to A.Lincoln.
    Frederick Douglass
    30s
  • Q4
    Leader of Underground Railroad (led escaped slaves to freedom). Former slave; spy for Union.
    Harriet Tubman
    30s
  • Q5
    CW nurse; "Angel of the Battlefield"; cared for soldiers at the front lines; reunited soldiers and families after the war; founded the American Red Cross.
    Clara Barton
    30s
  • Q6
    Mexican War soldier; before CW was a US Senator from Mississippi; President of the Confederate States of America (CSA); captured after the war ended and eventually released.
    Jefferson Davis
    30s
  • Q7
    Mexican War veteran, Confederate commander of all Southern troops; Lincoln asked him to command Union Army, but he declined. Surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
    Robert E. Lee
    30s
  • Q8
    Famous Confederate general. Got nickname, "Stonewall," at Battle of Bull Run, because he stood like a stone wall. Shot by friendly fire at Chancellorsville, eventually died from wound.
    Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
    30s
  • Q9
    Confederate spy at age 17; nicknamed "La Belle Rebelle"; after being arrested, she would sew messages into a rubber ball and throw it out of her jail cell window.
    Belle Boyd
    30s
  • Q10
    Actor; Southern sympathizer; assassinated A.Lincoln at Ford's Theater. He was hunted and killed a few days later.
    John Wilkes Booth
    30s

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