8th Grade Final Question Preview (ID: 61686)


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What was the strategic plan the North had in the Civil War?
a) Albany Plan
b) Treasure Plan
c) Anaconda
d)

Which battle of the Civil War was considered the single bloodiest day of the war?
a) Vicksburg
b) Ft. Sumter
c) Antietam
d)

Who surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse?
a) Lee
b) Grant
c) Lincoln
d)

Where did the first battle of the Civil War occur?
a) North
b) South
c) West
d)

What % of Southerners had to pledge loyalty to the U.S. to rejoin the Union after the Civil War?
a) 10%
b) 50%
c) 100%
d)

Which document declared slaves free in the Confederacy during the Civil War?
a) The Emancipation Proclamation
b) 13th amendment
c) Gettysburg Address
d)

What was the purpose of the Morrill Act passed in 1862?
a) build universities
b) help the native American's
c) supply land for churches
d)

What did the 14th amendment provide for African Americans?
a) provided voting rights regardless of race
b) provided citizenship regardless of race
c) provided a free but separate education
d)

The thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by-
a) Freedom from slavery
b) guaranteed voting rights
c) freedom of speech
d)

Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War?
a) Lincoln
b) Jefferson
c) Kennedy
d)

The southern states that seceded from the Union prior to the Civil War based the decision partly on their belief in-
a) Bill of Rights
b) States’ Rights
c) Monroe Doctrine
d)

What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
a) Shiloh
b) Vicksburg
c) Gettysburg
d)

Which of the following was an accomplishment of Ulysses S. Grant?
a) Led Radical Republicans in Congress
b) Was appointed General of the Union army during Civil War
c) Was the general for the southern Army during the Civil War
d)

The Southern states were pleased when Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
a) True
b) False
c) Somewhat true
d)

What was the Northern reaction to John Brown and his attempt to free the slaves?
a) He was a hero
b) they wanted to hang him
c) saw him as a criminal
d)

Which group objected to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel?
a) Northerners
b) Southerners
c) No one
d)

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 angered many northerners?
a) California entering as a slave state
b) Fugitive Slave Law
c) losing the Mexican Session
d)

In the Missouri Compromise, Missouri entered as a slave state, which state entered as a free state?
a) Maine
b) Texas
c) Idaho
d)

Who won the Civil War?
a) Union
b) Confederacy
c) South
d)

What were the years of the Civil War?
a) 1861-1865
b) 1865-1877
c) 1776-1787
d)

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