Free online quiz from World Book Encyclopedia. Free online history quizzes, geography quizzes, science quizzes, pop culture quizzes based on content from World Book Encyclopedia.
The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.
Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and then click "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz to see how you scored. All of the answers can be found in World Book.
1.
What day did the Civil War begin?
2.
At the start of the civil war, how many states were called "slave states" because they allowed slavery?
3.
What Southern state was the first state to secede (withdraw) from the Union?
4.
What city became the capital of the Confederacy in May 1861?
5.
How many states fought for the Confederacy?
6.
What was the first major battle of the war after the battle of Fort Sumter?
