VUS.7 Events, People, Documents

Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox

• Gettysburg

• Lexington & Concord

The turning point of the Civil War?

• Gettysburg
• Antietem
• Appomattox
• Fort Sumter

What speech is best remembered for these words? - "of the people, by the people, for the people.. . "

• Gettysburg Address
• Declaration of Independence
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address

Famous abolitionist who recruited former slaves as soldiers?

• Martin Luther King
• Dred Scott
• Fredrick Douglass
• Nat Turner

The Emancipation Proclamation --

• made abolition of slavery a war goal

• allowed African Americans to serve as soldiers

• freed the slaves in the rebelling states

• all of the above

 Lincoln's view of what to do with the southern states when the war ended was

• readmit to the Union as quickly as possible
• punish the south
• occupy the south with northern troops
• leave them to form a new nation

The Battle at Fort Sumter, SC is significant because it was the FIRST --

• military confrontation of the Civill War

• Confederate defeat

• conflict that included former slaves

• time British soldiers fought with Union soldiers

#1. Abraham Lincoln is elected President
#2. ?????????
#3. Battle of Fort Sumter
Which event completes this list?

• Robert E. Lee surrenders at Gettysburg
• Emancipation Proclamation is issued
• South Carolina secedes from the Union
• Union victory at Gettysburg

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• The Gettysburg address

• The Constitution of the U.S.

• Declaration of Independence

• Emancipation Proclamation

"with malice toward none and charity for all, to bind up the nation's wounds". . .. this quote refers to Lincoln's idea that ---

• the Union should punish the south for seceding

• the Union should welcome the southern states back without punishment

• the southern states had every right to secede

• the southern states should receive money