BTMS_USI9D: Civil War Leaders

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Which of the following was NOT a belief held by Abraham Lincoln?
The states had freely joined the union and could freely leave it.
The United States was one nation, not a collection of independent states.
The Union should be preserved by force if necessary.
We needed to preserve a government that was "of the people, by the people, and for the people."

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The states had freely joined the union and could freely leave it.

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Who was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia even though he opposed secession and slavery?

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Robert E. Lee

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Jefferson Davis was _____.

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President of the Confederate States

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Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?

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A skilled Confederate general from Virginia

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Ulysses S. Grant was the _____?

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general of the Union army that defeated Lee

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_____ was president of the United States.

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Abraham Lincoln

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_____ issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Abraham Lincoln

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_____ was offered the command of the Union forces at the beginning of the war, but chose not to fight against Virginia.

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Robert E. Lee

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Lincoln gave the _____ which said that purpose of the Civil War was to preserve a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

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Gettysburg Address

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_____ was a former enslaved African American who promoted African American involvement in the Civil War.

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Frederick Douglass