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Grade 5 Civil War
Select the correct term for the description.
kept balance between slave and free states
  1. tariff
  2. emancipation
  3. Dred Scott decision
  4. sectionalism
  5. Missouri Compromise
Grade 7 Civil War
Sherman's capture of which city probably ensured that Lincoln was reelected?
  1. New Orleans
  2. Memphis
  3. Savannah
  4. Atlanta
Grade 8 Civil War
What made freeing the slave a new focus for the Civil War?
  1. The Battle of Vicksburg
  2. The Emancipation Proclamation
  3. The Battle of Bull Run
  4. The Fugitive Slave Act
Grade 8 Civil War
               was a famous female spy for the South, during the Civil War.
  1. Clara Barton
  2. Dorothea Dix
  3. Rose Greenhow
  4. Julia Ward Howe
Grade 8 Civil War
The first shot of the Civil War was fired at                  
  1. Gettysburg
  2. Fredericksburg
  3. Chancellorsville
  4. Fort Sumter
  5. None of the above
Grade 5 Civil War
Select the correct term for the description.
ruled that slavery was legal
  1. tariff
  2. emancipation
  3. Dred Scott decision
  4. sectionalism
  5. Missouri Compromise
Grade 8 Civil War
Who led the federal forces during the John Brown Raid?
  1. U.S. Grant
  2. Jefferson Davis
  3. Zachary Taylor
  4. Robert E. Lee
Grade 4 Civil War
Which of the following is true of the Emancipation Proclamation?
  1. It freed all slaves.
  2. It repaid slave owners.
  3. It granted voting rights to freed slaves.
  4. It only freed slaves in territories held by the Confederacy.
Grade 4 Civil War
Where did Tubman lead slaves after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act?
  1. California
  2. New York
  3. Canada
  4. Mexico
Grade 5 Civil War
Who was the first and only President of the Confederacy?
  1. John C. Calhoun
  2. Abraham Lincoln
  3. Jefferson Davis
  4. John Bell
Grade 11 Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this political party?
  1. Jacksonian
  2. Whig
  3. Democratic
  4. Republican
Grade 4 Civil War
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
  1. William Tecumseh Sherman
  2. Ulysses S. Grant
  3. Abraham Lincoln
  4. Robert E. Lee
Grade 4 Civil War
When did the Civil War began?
  1. April 12, 1861
  2. April 12, 2016
  3. December 25, 1856
  4. July 4, 1861
Grade 7 Civil War
Why were Sherman's peace terms rejected by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?
  1. They required the Union to pay for the damages caused by the March to the Sea.
  2. The allowed plantation owners to keep their slaves.
  3. They allowed some states to say out of the Union.
  4. They were seen as too lenient on the South.
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