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Civil War: 7th Grade Social Studies
Test Description: Practice questions for the Civil War exam
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1) Who was the president during the Civil War?
A
George Washington
B
Abraham Lincoln
C
James Buchanan
2) When did the Civil War occur?
A
1830-1840
B
1861-1865
C
1820-1824
3) What were the Northern states called?
A
The Confederacy
B
The Liberators
C
The Union
4) What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about slavery?
A
The Slavery Papers
B
Abolition
C
Uncle Tom's Cabin
5) Who raided a federal armory in Harper's Ferry (VA) and planned to march South to arm slaves?
A
William Seward
B
John Brown
C
John Bell
D
Abraham Lincoln
6) What was the first Southern State to secede from the United States?
A
North Carolina
B
Alabama
C
South Carolina
D
Georgia
7) Who was the president of the Confederacy?
A
Jefferson F. Davis
B
Abraham Lincoln
C
William Henry
D
Robert E. Lee
8) What was the Anaconda Plan?
A
A military strategy for the Union Army that would suppress the Confederacy
B
A plan for uniting the North and South
C
A strategy to get more military recruits for the Union Army
D
A plan for rescuing slaves
9) With 23,000 causalities, where was the bloodiest one-day battle during the Civil War?
A
Gettysburg
B
Antietam
C
Battle of Bull Run
10) Who won the Battle of Fredericksburg?
A
Confederacy
B
Union
11) Maine came in as a free state, Missouri came in as a slave state and slavery wasn't allowed to exist above Missouri's Southern Border. These are the contents of which Compromise?
A
The America First Plan
B
The Compromise of 1850
C
Missouri Compromise
D
Popular Soverginty
12) The idea that how a state should enter the Union (Slave or Free) would be decided by vote by the residents of the particular state.
A
Declaratory
B
Capitalism
C
Mercantilism
D
Popular Sovereignty
13) Abolitionist Fanatic that attempted top take the federal arsenal (where guns are kept) at Harper's Ferry and arm a slave uprising
A
Robert E. Lee
B
Harper's Ferry
C
Ulysses S. Grant
D
John Brown
14) This Compromise allowed for California to come into the Union as a Free State and stated that the rest of the Mexican Secession would be decided by popular sovereignty.
A
The Compromise of 1850
B
The Compromise of 1812
C
The Great Compromise
D
The Missouri Compromise
15) Prior to the Civil War , one main goal of the compromises they reached was to maintain a balance between the number of free and slave states in what governmental body?
A
The House of Representatives
B
State Legislatures
C
The Senate
D
Supreme Court
16) This Supreme Court Case ruled on weather or not a slave was free because he had entered into a free state.
A
Marbury vs Madison
B
Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
C
Dred Scott
D
Plessy vs Ferguson
17) How did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Dredd Scott?
A
They did not issue a ruling on his freedom or not but instead said a slave had no legal status to sue.
B
They Ruled that he was free because the state did not allow slavery.
C
They ruled Dredd Scott was not free because he was born in a slave state.
D
They ruled that slaves were human and had the same rights as whites.
18) This act passed by congress allowed for the issue of slave or free state be decided by the vote of the people.
A
The Great Compromise
B
The Western Land Act of 1865
C
The Missouri Compromise
D
Kansas Nebraska Act
19) What was an unintended consequence of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
A
The people could not decide by voting
B
Pro and Anti Slavery people flooded into the state to influence the vote and violence ensued.
C
Most people would not bother to vote
D
The People would vote the wrong way.
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