Virginia Studies (Civil War) p. 114-115

The _______________ was a plan that drew an imaginery line through the Louisiana Territory, to decide which new states would permit slavery and which would be free.

• The Union

• The Wartime Powerhouse

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Abraham Lincoln Plan

A new political party, the Republicans, vowed to stop slavery from expanding. The party's candidate, _______________, was elected president in 1860.

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

Some southerners feared that Lincoln would end slavery so in December 1860, South Carolina and six other Southern states decided to _______________ from the United States.

• run away

• secede

• stay away

Secede means to _______________.

• end slavery

• forget about slavery

• withdraw from, pull away from because of a difference

The Southern states formed a new country called the.......

• Warrior States of America

• Slavery States of America

• United States of America

• Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of American elected ________________, a Mississippi planter and politician, as its president.

• George Washington

• Jefferson Davis

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

On April 12th, 1861, Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter. President Lincoln called on all states that had not seceded to send volunteers to fight the soldiers. After a vote, Virginia decided to _______________.

• fight the Confederate soldiers

• remain neutral

• do nothing

• secede from the United States and join the Confederacy

Virginia was the biggest and wealthiest of the Confederate states. It had gun factories and great military minds, so the capital of the Confederate States of America was moved to ________________.

• Richmond

• Jamestown

• Williamsburg

• Virginia Beach

The western part of Virginia did not rely on slavery and did not want to leave the Union (United States of America). The two parts of Virginia continued to argue. Finally the western part of the state decided to secede from Virginia. in 1863 Congress recognized a new state, called ________________.

• Virginia II

• West Virginia

• North Carolina

• Mini-Virginia

The first battle of the Civil War was in ______________.

• Richmond, Virginia

• Atlanta, Georgia

• California

• Fort Sumter (Charleston), South Carolina