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Which Presidential election led to the seceding of the Southern States?

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Abraham Lincoln (1860)

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What was another name for the South?

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The Confederacy

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What was another name for the North?

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The Union

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What was the major reason why the South seceded? Lincoln won the election without winning a single Southern State.

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Lincoln won the election without winning a single Southern State.

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A slave state that did not secede from the Union

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border state

Front

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

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To withdraw formally from a nation or political organization

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secede

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Who was the leading commander of the Union army?

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Ulysses S. Grant.

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Who was the leading commander of the Confederate army?

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Robert E. Lee.

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What battle during the Civil War was the bloodiest day in American history?

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Antietam