Covid-19 Remote Lesson History Civil War Lesson 3: Hardships on the Home Front

Multiple Choice

1._____ was elected in 1861. He supported the Confederacy by raising troops and encouraging the growth of Texas factories to make military supplies.

A.

B.

C. Francis R. Lubbock

D.

2._____ was elected governor of Texas in 1863 and held the office until the end of the Civil War.

A. Edward Clark

B. Andrew Jackson Hamilton

C. Francis R. Lubbock

D. Pendleton Murrah

3. While men were away in the army, the job of maintaining homes, farms, and plantations fell to _____.

A. the Confederate government

B. the Texas government

C. Unionists pressed into the duty

D. women

4. Following secession the Southern states were unprepared to manufacture their own cloth, so women wove a coarse loose-fitting fabric called _____.

A. burlap

B. hard tack

C. home front

D. homespun

5. A drug called _____, which was used to fight fever and malaria, was scarce during the war.

A. penicillin

B. morphine

C. quinine

D. tetanus

6. Confederate General _____ surrendered to Union forces on April 9, 1865, marking the beginning of the end of the Civil War.

A. Ulysses S. Grant

B. Robert E. Lee

C. John B. Magruder

D. Edmund Kirby Smith

7. Confederate forces won the Battle of ____ in Texas, one month after Confederate troops began to surrender.

A. Brownsville

B. Galveston

C. Palmito Ranch

D. Sabine Pass

8. After the Civil War, the Texas state government collapsed and Governor _____ and other state officials fled to Mexico.

A. Clark

B. Hamilton

C. Lubbock

D. Murrah

9. President appointed _____ as provisional governor of Texas until a new elected state government could be formed.

A. Edward Clark

B. Andrew Jackson Hamilton

C. Francis R. Lubbock

D. Pendleton Murrah

10. On January 1, 1863 President Abraham issued the _____, an executive order declaring enslaved persons in the Confederate states to be free.

A. Articles of Freedom

B. Emancipation Proclamation

C. Reconstruction Acts

D. 13th Amendment