Civil War Part 1

What did the Emancipation Proclamation proclaim?

• All slaves are free from bondage.
• Ended the war.
• Promoted Ulysses S. Grant.
• Europe is now on the Union's side.

True or False: The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American History.

• True
• False

The bloodiest single day in American military history ended in a draw, but the Confederate retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the “victory” he desired before issuing the

• Declaration of Independence.
• 13th Amendment.
• Gettysburg Address.
• Emancipation Proclamation.

Formally withdrawing from the United States

• To Confederate
• Leaving
• Succession
• Secession

Which of the following best describes how Lincoln and most Northerners viewed the Union?

• The Union couldn't use violence to save itself
• The Union was not meant to live for more than 100 years
• States freely created the Union so they can leave when they want
• The Union was 1 nation that could not be divided or separated
  

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to

• preserve the Union.
• encourage sectionalism.
• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation.
• end slavery throughout the entire country.

What state was first state to secede from the union?

• Georgia
• Alabama
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

South Carolina seceded from the Union after -

• a major tax increase from the federal government

• the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the USA

• Lincoln freeing all enslaved African Americans in the South

• Charleston's port being blockaded by the Lincoln

Dred Scott is famous for 

• being sued for helping slaves escape
• suing for his freedom
• causing the Civil War
• becoming the first slave to win freedom through the justice system

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

• popular sovereignty
• the 36'30" parallel
• one would be a slave state, the other a free state
• Rock, Paper, Scissors