Civil War

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party
• Northern Democratic Party
• Southern Democratic Party
• Constitutional Union Party

The first state to leave the Union after the Election of 1860 was...

• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Mississippi

Which of these people ran for the Republican Party?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen A. Douglas
• John Breckinridge

Fort Sumter...

• marked the last exchange of fire in the War
• marked the first exchange of fire in the War
• resulted in major loss of life for the Union
• resulted in major loss of life for the Confederacy

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Who was Jefferson Davis?

• President before Buchanan
• President before Lincoln
• The first military officer of the Confederacy
• President of the Confederacy

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What was the Union expecting as they made the attack at Bull Run?

• A long, drawn-out war
• An evenly matched fight
• A quick and easy end to the war
• None of these

What was the first major battle of the Civil War?

• Antietam
• Bull Run
• Sherman's March to the Sea
  
• Fort Sumter

Bull Run was important because...

• it let both sides know it was going to be a long and bloody war
• it showed the strength of the Union Army
• led to the capture of Washington D.C.
• led to the capture of Richmond

After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War was not about keeping the Union together but for ____________

• Ending Southern Control in Kentucky
• Ending Slavery
• Ending Northern abuse towards the South
• Jefferson Davis's tyranny

The _________ called for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

• habeas copus
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Bill of Rights
• Constituion