Civil War Rifles

checking my sons homework…answers appreicated…
1. Who was the abolitionist captured at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Simon Legree
2. What Supreme Court decision in effect meant that the Constitution protected slavery?
Election of 1856
Dred Scott case
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
3. The first president of the Confederate States of America was
Abraham Lincoln.
Robert E. Lee.
Jefferson Davis.
John C. Calhoun.
4. Where was the first major battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run (Manassas)
New Orleans
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
5. Which event happened shortly after Abraham Lincoln’s election to the presidency?
Texas became a state.
Reconstruction began.
Southern states seceded.
The Republican Party formed.
6. The Merrimack and the Monitor changed naval warfare because they engaged in the first battle between
metal-covered ships.
ships carrying guns.
aircraft carriers.
wooden ships.