The Kids Guide To The Civil War-Beginners IQ Test

The Beginners IQ Test

1. Who was the leader of the Confederate States of America?
Abe Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Jeff Davis

2. How did Abe Lincoln begin the Gettysburg Address?
Eighty-seven years ago
Fourscore and twenty years ago
Fourscore and seven years ago

3. What did the north call the battle of Manasass?
The Wilderness
Bull Run
Spring Hill

4.Who shot Lincoln and where did it happen?
In the White House by John Wilkes Booth
In Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth
In Fords Theater by Lee Harvey Oswald

5. What years were the Civil War fought?
1861-1865
1851-1856
1898-1902

6. What force did Maryland fight for?
The South
Neither
The North

7. Who won Gettysburg?
The North
The South
Russia

8. How did Stonewall Jackson get shot?
He was shot in battle.
He was killed by a bayonet.
His own force accidently shot him.

9. What was the first major infantry battle?
Bull Run
Fort Sumter
Chancellorsville

10. Because General Thomas J. Jackson stood his ground at the First Battle of Bull Run, his troops nicknamed him:
Standfast
Stonewall
Steadyman

11. One of the most popular songs in the Confederate Army was?
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
"Bonnie Blue Flag"
"The Battle Cry of Freedom"

12. The Civil War began when the South fired on Fort Sumter. What city is Fort Sumter in?
Charleston, South Carolina
Augusta, Georgia
Mobile, Alabama

13.Cemetery Ridge was the Confederates objective on the last day of which major battle?
Vicksburg
Shiloh
Gettysburg

14.What did the confederate soldier call the Union soldier
"Billy Yank"
"Johnny Yank"
"Nickie North"

15.Name the Confederate Iron Clad?
Monitor
The Carolina
The Marylou

16.Who won the famous Iron Clad Battle?
Monitor
The Carolina
No One

17.Who was the Commanding Confederate Cavalry General of the South?
General John Pope
General Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee
General J.E.B. Stuart

18. The eastern part of the Union Army was
The Army of the Potomac
The Army of the East
The Army of the North

19. The Confederate Army of the east was called
The Army of the South
The Army of the Confederacy
The Army of Northern Virginia

20. At what location did Lee surrender to Grant?
Petersburg
Appomatox
Richmond

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