10th Nine Weeks

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

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Abraham Lincoln (1860)

Front

What was another name for the South?

Back

The Confederacy

Front

What was another name for the North?

Back

The Union

Front

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.

Front

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

Front

To withdraw formally from a nation or political organization

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secede

Front

Who was the leading commander of the Union army?

Back

Ulysses S. Grant.

Front

Who was the leading commander of the Confederate army?

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Robert E. Lee.

Front

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

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Antietam