The Civil War

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  1. _________led a revolt against the plantation owners of Virginia.
  2. Your answer:
    Nat Turner
    Chief Powhatan
    Nathaniel Bacon
    Captain John Smith


  3. __________ was responsible for establishing the "Underground Railroad", a secret route that escaped slaves took to freedom.
  4. Your answer:
    Harriet Tubman
    colonists
    Nat Turner
    John Brown


  5. __________ campaigned to end slavery.
  6. Your answer:
    Abolitionists
    Nat Turner
    Seccessionists
    Slaves


  7. ____________ led a raid at the U.S.Armory at Harper's Ferry.
  8. Your answer:
    Abolitionists
    Nat Turner
    Slaves
    John Brown


  9. ____________, a Confederate General,played a major role in the Battle of Bull run.
  10. Your answer:
    U.S.Grant
    J.E.B.Stuart
    Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
    Robert E.Lee


  11. ___________was the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Northern Virginia and defeated the Union forces at Fredericksburg.
  12. Your answer:
    General Meade
    General Robert E. Lee
    General Pickett
    General U.S.Grant


  13. ___________was responisble for capturing and burning Richmond near the end of the war.
  14. Your answer:
    General Sherman
    General U.S. Grant
    General Meade
    General Robert E. Lee


  15. ___________surrendered to U.S.Grant at the end of the Civil War.
  16. Your answer:
    J.E.B.Stuart
    Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
    Robert E.Lee
    none of the above


  17. ____________is the name of the secret route that slaves took to freedom.
  18. Your answer:
    North Railroad
    South Railroad
    Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
    Underground Railroad


  19. The disagreemnt over slavery, between the ______ and ________ counties of Virginia, led to the formation of West Virginia.
  20. Your answer:
    eastern, western
    northern, southern
    northern, western
    eastern, southern


  21. ___________was created due to the division about secession from the Union.
  22. Your answer:
    The C.S.A
    North Carolina
    West Virginia
    The U.S.A.


  23. After ________became the President of the U.S. in 1860, some of the states seceded from the Union.
  24. Your answer:
    George Washington
    Jefferson Davis
    Abraham Lincoln
    U.S. Grant


  25. When Virginia and the other states seceded from the Union, they formed _____________.
  26. Your answer:
    U.S.S.R.
    a new territory
    a new state
    the Confederate States of America


  27. The __________states were known as the Confederacy.
  28. Your answer:
    All the states
    Southern
    Northern
    Western


  29. Virginia became a major battleground between the __________ and ___________ troops.
  30. Your answer:
    abolitionists, secessionists
    Confederate, Union
    Virginian, English
    Eastern, Western


  31. The states known as the Union were from the __________.
  32. Your answer:
    west
    south
    all areas
    north


  33. _________ was the first battle of the Civil War.
  34. Your answer:
    Battle of Bull Run
    Battle of Petersburg
    Battle of Richmond
    Battle of Gettysburg


  35. The city of __________ was the capital of the Confederacy.
  36. Your answer:
    Richmond
    Petersburg
    Jamestown
    Washington D.C.


  37. What did lincoln use to blockade the southern ports?
  38. Your answer:
    Navy
    Army
    Air Force
    Militia


  39. The ______________ and ____________ were two ironclad ships that battled in the waters near Norfolk and Hampton.
  40. Your answer:
    Constitution, Clipper
    Monitor, Merrimack
    Roosevelt, Truman
    all of the above


  41. The Civil War ended in __________.
  42. Your answer:
    April, 1865
    April, 1965
    April, 1861
    April, 1961


  43. Who won the Civil War?
  44. Your answer:
    The South - Confederate
    Neither side
    The North - Union
    It was a tie


  45. The Civil War ended at ________________.
  46. Your answer:
    Petersburg, Virginia
    Washington D.C.
    Appomattox Court House, Virginia
    Richmond, Virginia



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