Abraham Lincoln

Unit 6:
Abraham Lincoln

The United States did not agree on slavery

• the North wanted slavery to be illegal

• the South wanted to keep slaves to make them work for no money

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln ran to be president

he wanted slavery to stop and to be abolished in the United States

Multiple Choice

Who agreed with Lincoln?

• The North

• The South

Multiple Choice

Who did not agree with Lincoln?

• The North

• The South

Young Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln had grown up in a poor family. He had to work as a young boy. With little or no time for school, he had mostly taught himself. He eventually became a lawyer and then a politician. 

Stop slavery in new states

Abraham Lincoln’s ideas about slavery made him unpopular with many Southerners. They believed he would end slavery in the South, even though he said he wanted only to stop slavery from happening in new states. 

16th President

Some Southerners said that the South should leave the Union if he became president. When Abraham Lincoln won the election and became president, seven Southern states did just that! 

Multiple Choice

Who was the 16th president of the United States?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

Leaving the Union

States that left the Union would no longer be part of the United States. 

These Southern states said they were breaking away from the United States, just as the original thirteen colonies had broken away from Great Britain. 

The Confederacy

They were forming a new country named the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy for short. 

Multiple Choice

The South left the United States to make their own country.

• true

• false

Confederacy President

They even elected their own president, a man named Jefferson Davis. 

Confederate States of America

The South named their new country the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy

for short. 

Multiple Choice

The name of the South's new country was:

• The Confederacy

• The United States

• The Colonies

Multiple Choice

Why did the South form their own country?

• They wanted to be part of Great Britain again.

• They didn't want slavery to be illegal

The Civil War begins

In April 1861, Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina. 

More states leave

Four more Southern states left the Union. President Abraham Lincoln and others in the North decided that the only way to save the Union was to go to war—a civil war. 

A Civil War

A civil war is a war between groups in the same country—in this case, between the United States and the Confederate States of America. 

Multiple Choice

A civil war is a war between two different countries, such as France and England.

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

A civil war is a war between two groups of the SAME country.

• true

• false