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Great Dismal Swamp maroons
  • 1. What was the Great Dismal Swamp maroons?
A) A community of escaped slaves who lived in the Great Dismal Swamp
B) A rare species of plant found only in the Great Dismal Swamp
C) A group of European explorers who settled in the Great Dismal Swamp
D) An ancient Native American tribe that inhabited the Great Dismal Swamp
  • 2. In which US states is the Great Dismal Swamp located?
A) Maryland and Delaware
B) Virginia and North Carolina
C) Florida and Georgia
D) Louisiana and Mississippi
  • 3. Who was the founder of the abolitionist newspaper 'The Liberator'?
A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) John Brown
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Frederick Douglass
  • 4. Which state was the first to abolish slavery through a gradual emancipation law in 1780?
A) South Carolina
B) New York
C) Virginia
D) Pennsylvania
  • 5. In which year did the Civil War in the United States end?
A) 1850
B) 1865
C) 1876
D) 1901
  • 6. Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) Ulysses S. Grant
  • 7. What was the name of the Confederate general who surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War?
A) Nathan Bedford Forrest
B) Jefferson Davis
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Stonewall Jackson
  • 8. Which amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery?
A) 13th Amendment
B) 18th Amendment
C) 10th Amendment
D) 5th Amendment
  • 9. What was the name of the speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln that began with 'Four score and seven years ago'?
A) I Have a Dream
B) Gettysburg Address
C) Emancipation Proclamation
D) Second Inaugural Address
  • 10. Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 1865?
A) John Wilkes Booth
B) Lee Harvey Oswald
C) Leon Czolgosz
D) Charles J. Guiteau
  • 11. What was the name of the period of rebuilding and reconciliation in the United States following the Civil War?
A) Reconstruction
B) Redemption
C) Reformation
D) Revolution
  • 12. Which amendment to the US Constitution granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves?
A) 16th Amendment
B) 15th Amendment
C) 14th Amendment
D) 17th Amendment
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