Test IV: The Civil War

Question 1

bill that inducted California into the Union as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose

Answer 1

Compromise of 1850

Question 2

government established by seceded states

Answer 2

Confederacy

Question 3

Massachusetts Senator known as greatest U.S. orator

Answer 3

Daniel Webster

Question 4

slave who appealed to Supreme Court for freedom

Answer 4

Dred Scott

Question 5

land purchased from Mexico for railroads

Answer 5

Gadsden Purchase

Question 6

settlers moving to the West to become rich

Answer 6

Gold Rush

Question 7

treaty that ended the Mexican War

Answer 7

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 8

author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom

Answer 9

Harriet Tubman

Question 10

president of the Confederacy

Answer 10

Jefferson Davis

Question 11

American pioneer who conquered California

Answer 11

John C. Fremont

Question 12

commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army

Answer 12

Robert E. Lee

Question 13

general of the Mexican Army

Answer 13

Santa Anna

Question 14

commander-in-chief of the Union Army

Answer 14

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 15

Union general who burned Atlanta

Answer 15

William T. Sherman

Question 16

American general who captured Mexico City

Answer 16

Winfield Scott

Question 17

American general who defeated Santa Anna

Answer 17

Zachary Taylor

Question 18

Year of the Gold Rush

Answer 18

1849

Question 19

Year of the Mexican War

Answer 19

1846-1848

Question 20

“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”

Answer 20

Davy Crockett

Question 21

Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this Union.”

Answer 21

John Quincy Adams

Question 22

Place where Lee surrendered to Grant

Answer 22

Appomattox

Question 23

Battle during which 150 Texans fought the Mexican army

Answer 23

Alamo

Question 24

Battle that changed the course of the Civil War

Answer 24

Gettysburg

Question 25

Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War

Answer 25

Fort Sumter

Question 26

War fought over boundaries between Texas and Mexico

Answer 26

Mexican War

Question 27

Date of the Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 27

July 1-3, 1863

Question 28

Date of the Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 28

April 12, 1861

Question 29

Date of the surrender at Appomattox Cothouse

Answer 29

April 9, 1865

Question 30

Date of the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 30

January 1, 1863

Question 31

What was the system during the Civil War that secretly transported slaves to Canada?

Answer 31

the Underground Railroad

Question 32

What was the event during which President Lincoln declared all slaves free?

Answer 32

the Emancipation Proclamation

Question 33

Who said, “If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard,” and of what was he speaking?

Answer 33

President Lincoln; slavery

Question 34

Who said, “Men, we have fought through the war together. I have done the best I could for you. My heart is too full to say more”?

Answer 34

General Robert E. Lee

Question 35

Which was the first state to secede from the Union

Answer 35

South Carolina

Question 36

List the states that constituted the Confederacy.

Answer 36

South Carolina, Mississippi Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee