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Grade 5 Civil War
Most women were able to keep their jobs in factories after the war.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil War
Five days after the Civil War ended, President Lincoln went to see a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. As he sat in the presidential box close to the stage he was shot by an actor named
  1. Lee Harvey Oswald
  2. John Wilkes Booth
  3. Robert E. Lee
  4. John Brown
Grade 5 Civil War
Which was not a condition of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
  1. Missouri was admitted to the US as a slave state.
  2. Slavery was not permitted north of Missouri's southern border.
  3. Any run-away slave had to be returned to it's owner.
  4. Maine was admitted to the US as a free state.
Grade 5 Civil War
Who was a famous Union General at the beginning of the war?
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Robert E. Lee
  3. Ulysses S. Grant
  4. Paul Revere
Grade 5 Civil War
Who escaped from slavery?
  1. Doug Coin
  2. Frederick Douglas
Grade 5 Civil War
Which was not a condition of Lee's surrender to Grant?
  1. The officer's were allowed to go home.
  2. Soldiers that owned horses or mules were permitted to take them home.
  3. Lee was to be sent to prison, but the soldier's could go home.
  4. Officer's could keep their weapons.
Grade 5 Civil War
Why do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was so powerful?
  1. the opinion in the was in agreement with slavery
  2. the book criticized the South for owning slaves and the North for having cotton mills
  3. the book criticized the North for owning slaves
  4. the book criticized California for entering the Union as a salve state
Grade 5 Civil War
Who were the reformers who moved to end slavery?
  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Abigail Adams
  3. Benjamin Rush
  4. all of the above
Grade 5 Civil War
A Latin word that means "before the war" is called                .
  1. prosperous
  2. secede
  3. Antebellum
Grade 5 Civil War
What does Antebellum mean in the following sentence:
The Antebellum Period was very prosperous time.
  1. after the war
  2. during the war
  3. before the war
  4. in the middle of war
Grade 5 Civil War
The United States bought Alaska from
  1. France
  2. Russia
  3. Spain
  4. Canada
Grade 5 Civil War
What is a tariff?
  1. textiles
  2. a tax on products and goods
  3. a machine to help pick cotton
  4. a factory
Grade 5 Civil War
Harriet Tubman was
  1. A slave owner
  2. A conductor for the underground railroad
  3. A Union Spy
  4. A Confederate Soldier
Grade 5 Civil War
During the Civil War, The North was called the Confederacy
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil War
To abolish slavery means
  1. to get rid of it
  2. to maintain it
  3. to support it
  4. to run away from it
Grade 5 Civil War
The slave states were mostly in the South.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Civil War
What gave the Confederacy an advantage in the beginning of the war?
  1. slavery
  2. factories to build supplies
  3. Fighting in familiar territory
  4. Fighting brother against brother
Grade 5 Civil War
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
  1. Fort Sumter, SC
  2. Atlanta, GA
  3. Appomattox, VA
  4. Birmingham, AL
Grade 5 Civil War
Lincoln was assassinated...
  1. At Appomattoz courthouse
  2. During the first act of the play
  3. One week after the war ended
  4. Two days after he was elected
Grade 5 Civil War
Most battles of the Civil War were fought in the South
  1. True
  2. False
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