Civil War/Reconstruction

During the SC Secession Convention in 1860, the delegates...

• voted to secede from the US
• voted to abolish slavery in SC
• voted to go to war against the US
• voted to move SC's capital to Charleston

The event which is considered to be the start of the Civil War is...

• the election of President Lincoln
• the election of Jefferson Davis
• the firing on Fort Sumter
• the sinking of the Hunley

The first and only President of the Confederate States of America was...

• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

The Union forces hurt SC's economy early in the Civil War by...

• refusing to buy cloth
• blockading the port at Charleston
• destroying the cotton fields
• attacking the factories in Columbia

The Hunley was a significant development during the Civil War because...

• it was the largest railroad engine built to transport goods
• it was the first submarine to sink an enemy war ship
• it was the first armored tank to serve on the battlefield
• it was the largest cannon used to defend Fort Sumter

Former slave, Robert Smalls, impacted the Civil War by...

• helping General Sherman invade the city of Atlanta
• writing the peace terms at the end of the Civil War
• giving Confederate military information to the Union
• inventing the first submarine, the Hunley

The action which destroyed land, property, and morale in order to convince the southern people to end the war was...

• General Sherman's "March to the Sea"
• the blockade of the Charleston port
• the attack on Fort Sumter
• the Secession Convention

The purpose of the Union's blockade of South Carolina's coastline during the Civil War was...

• to steal shipments of cotton
• to stop supplies from entering the state
• to be in position to attack southern states
• to make it easier to transport soldiers from place to place

During the Civil War, many women had jobs as...

• lawyers
• doctors
• nurses
• merchants

The Civil War changed many people’s lives. The war made men...

• plant more crops
• save their money
• buy more slaves
• leave to go fight