Unit 10 Day 1

The Civil War

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• abolitionist rights

• states’ rights

• homestead rights

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 6 is -

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Declaration of Independence

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?  

• It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.

• It gave tax cuts to manufacturers who relocated to the territories.

• It allowed slaves who escaped to the territories to purchase their freedom.

• It granted homesteads to immigrants who settled in the territories.

Multiple Choice

This table shows the population of enslaved people in two regions of the United States in 1840.

Which statement describes a factor that MOST contributed to the population difference shown in the table? 

• The South had a society that relied on wage labor.

• The South had an economy that relied on cotton.

• The South had a variety of natural resources.

• The South had an abundance of large cities.

The Key Players

• The Union: North

– President: Abraham Lincoln
– General: Ulysses S. Grant

• The Confederacy: South

– President: Jefferson Davis
– General: Robert E. Lee

Day 1

• Who were the leaders of the Union?

• Who were the leaders of the Confederacy?

Turn and Talk

North vs. South

• Population: The North had 22

million people while the South
had only 6 million people

• Resources: The North had more

factories and produced more
food than the South

• Transportation: The North had

more railroads, canals, and roads

• Leadership: The North had

Lincoln, and the South had
General Lee

• NavalPower: The North had a

more powerful navy

Day 1

• Which side had the advantage in resources?

• Why is population important when fighting a

war?

Turn and Talk

Anaconda Plan

• Lincoln’s main strategy

for winning the war
was to surround the
South and strangle it
by blockading
southern ports and
controlling the
Mississippi River

• The strategy became

known as the
Anaconda Plan

Day 1

• What was Lincoln’s plan for winning the war?

• What nickname was given to the plan?

Turn and Talk

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 5 is -

• a naval blockade

• a tariffs collection

• air raids

Multiple Choice

The best selection to complete 6 is -

• producing manufactured goods

• exporting cotton to create revenue

• gaining foreign support in the war effort

Open Ended

Short Constructed Response - Think about the question carefully.  Then enter your answer below.

What were TWO advantages of the North at the time of the Civil War? What is the Souths advantage and why is it significant?

Match

Match the following

• After a Republican was elected president, South Carolina and six other states seceded from the ________________________________________________. 

• ___________________________________________________________, like Frederick Douglass, worked to end slavery  in the United States.  

• __________________________________________________________ was president of the Union.     

• In April 1861, ________________________________________________ troops opened fire at Fort Sumter, which started the Civil War.   

• __________________________________________________ was president of the Confederate States of America.       

Union

Abolitionists

Abraham Lincoln

Confederate

Jefferson Davis

• Union

• Abolitionists

• Abraham Lincoln

• Confederate

• Jefferson Davis