Name: ___________________________
Date: ___________________________
Hour: ________
The Civil War:
Episode 1 Quiz
_____ 1. How many men were killed or wounded during the Civil War?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Over
Over
Over
Over
1,000,000
600,000
800,000
100,000
_____ 2. This machine, invented by Eli Whitney, could produce 1,000 pounds
of cotton per day.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Cotton
Cotton
Cotton
Cotton
Gin
Extractor
Comb
Distiller
_____ 3. This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, caused many northern
people to hate slavery.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Gone With the Wind
Up From Slavery
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
_____ 4. Of whom did author Herman Melville refer to as, “the meteor of the
war?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Walton Osborne
John Brown
_____ 5. Which Republican candidate was elected President of the United
States in 1860?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Stephen A. Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
_____ 6. Who was chosen as the first and only President of the Confederacy?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Stephen A. Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Davis
_____ 7. Where did the first major conflict in the Civil War occur?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Shiloh, Tennessee
_____ 8. How long did most people believe the Civil War would last?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5 years
1 year
90 days
120 days
_____ 9. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Bull Run
Antietam
Vicksburg
Sharpsburg
_____ 10. Who won the first major battle of the Civil War?
a. The United States of America
b. The Confederate States of America
c. It was a tie
_____ 11. Who became president of the United States in 1861?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Ulysses S. Grant
John Wilkes Booth
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln