Glory and the Civil War Years
Name ______
1. What was the name of the regiment on which the story centred?
a. 54th Massachussetts
b. 18th Ohio
c. 49th Connecticut
d. 110th Maine
2. The commanding officer of the regiment was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, played by Matthew Broderick. What city was Shaw from?
a. Stratford, Connecticut
b. New York, New York
c. Boston, Massachussetts
d. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3. Private Trip (Denzel) was flogged after being charged with deserting the regiment during its arduous training regime. Why had he left the camp?
a. To meet his girlfriend
b. To find more food
c. To find medicine for a sick comrade
d. To look for a pair of boots
4. When Shaw was invited to take command of the regiment, to which famous African-American was he introduced?
a. Frederick Douglass
b. Charlotte Forten
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Harriet Tubman
5. Which actor won his first Oscar for his role in 'Glory'?
a. Matthew Broderick
b. Denzel Washington
c. Cary Elwes
d. Morgan Freeman
6. Which of the following was not true about Glory? It was presented from a predominately white point of view
a. to make the movie appeal to a wider audience
b. because the movie was based on Col. Shaw's memoirs
c. because the movie wanted to show the growth of the white characters by their interaction with the black characters.
d. because the movie was mainly about white characters.
7. What state were the troops in Glory from?
a. Connecticut
b. Virginia
c. Massachusetts
d. Delaware
e. Boston
8. What change did the movie Glory have from the real historical events.
a. Colonel Shaw lived in real life
b. The troop was made up mostly of free men not ex-slaves in real life
c. The troops had white soldiers in it too in real life
d. Some of the officers were black in real life
9. 22 men, including five African Americans, seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to ignite a slave rebellion. Who was their leader?
a. Nat Turner
b. Gabriel Prosser
c. John Brown
d. O.J. Simpson
10. The Mormons were persecuted because they believed :
a. There was more than one god.
b. Everyone should be armed.
c. Everyone should have slaves.
d. You could have more than one wife.
11. The Emancipation Proclamation, freeing some of the slaves, was issued in
a. 1776
b. 1640
c. 1863
d. 1917
12. The Emancipation Proclamation freed
a. All slaves
b. slaves in the Northern states
c. slaves in the territories
d. slaves in the Southern states
13. The president of the Confederacy was
a. Robert E. Lee
b. Jefferson Davis
c. Stonewall Jackson
d. Thomas Jefferson
14. The Union general who later became president was
a. Robert E. Lee
b. George Custer
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Ulysses S. Grant
15.Former slave who helped lead the fight for freedom
a. Robert E. Lee
b. Patrick Henry
c. Frederick Douglass
d. Uncle Tom
16. The invention that made slavery more profitable
a. Steam Engine
b. Cotton Gin
c. Planting turbine
d. The Reaping Machine
17. The Southern slave codes did all of the following EXCEPT ______
a. forbid enslaved persons to carry weapons.
b. prohibit enslaved persons from holding meetings
c. require enslaved Africans to learn to read.
d. treat enslaved people as both persons and property.
18. Which president was not assassinated?
a. Lincoln
b. McKinley
c. Johnson
d. Kennedy
19. When did the foreign slave trade end in the United States?
a. 1776
b. 1808.
c. 1863.
d. 1880
20. What do we call the period following the Civil War?
a. post-War years
b. The golden years
c. Reconstruction
d. the twilight years
21. When did Chinese workers begin to build the Transcontinental Railroad?
a. 1865
b. 1900
c. 1915
d. 1935
22. The term "Seward's Folly" refers to
a. the purchase of Alaska negotiated by Secretary of State William Seward
b. the impeachment of Andrew Johnson urged by Secretary of State William Seward
c. the cornering of gold by financier George Seward, which led to the stock market crash of 1869
d. the Great Fire of Chicago, which started in Seward's Tavern
23. What important event took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848?
a. Women met to call for their rights as citizens.
b. The Johnstown Flood killed over two thousand people.
c. A revolution led Joseph Smith to create the Book of Mormon.
d. The Erie Canal was completed.
24. Harriet Tubman is primarily known for
a. founding the first college for black students
b. spying for Confederate forces during the Civil War
c. leading slaves north on the Underground Railroad
d. her work with the suffragist movement
25. The Civil War was fought
a. 1776 – 1781
b. 1812 – 1817
c. 1861 – 1865
d. 1917 – 1921
26. President Abraham Lincoln fought the Civil War to:
a. punish the South for its transgressions against blacks
b. stabilize the economy, suffering the effects of uncooperative southern planters
c. abolish slavery in the United States
d. preserve the Union, threatened by secession of numerous southern states
27. The Civil War began:
a. with the Confederate advance through Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
b. when South Carolina militia fired on Fort Sumter
c. with the clash of Union and Confederate forces at Bull Run
d. when the South refused to accept the Emancipation Proclamation
28. All of the following injustices/inequities were shown in Glory except:
a. unequal pay for black and white soldiers in the Union Army
b. disrespect for black soldiers by white soldiers and officers
c. especially cruel treatment by Confederate captors of black soldiers taken as prisoners
d. black regiments commanded exclusively by white officers
29. The leader of the Confederate forces in the Civil war was
a. Jackson
b. Lincoln
c. Jefferson
d. Lee
30. A person who wanted to end slavery in the US was called a
a. Nullifier
b. Freedom Fighter
c. Lincolner
d. Abolitionist