Civil War

Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860?

• The Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
• The election of President Abraham LIncoln
• The enactment of the Missouri Compromise
• The raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry by John Brown

This caused widespread fear in the South about the future of slavery

• the election of Jefferson Davis
• High tariffs
• the election of Abraham Lincoln
• the death of Stonewall Jackson

At the beginning of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's main goal was

• to free the slaves
• to bring Confederate states back to the Union
• to lower the price of cotton
• increase trade with France

What was Lincoln's main goal during the Civil War?

• To abolish slavery in the US

• To stop slavery from spreading west

• To preserve the unity of the country

• To get Europe to support the north in the war

Slaves would only be set free in what parts of the country?

• Only the states still at war with the Union
• In the four loyal slave states
• Confederate lands already captured by the Union
• Kansas

This freed the slaves in Confederate states.

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Gettysburg Address 
• The Battle of Antietam 
• The Emancipation Proclamation

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More factories, population, money, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages

• Union advantages

• reasons for a Confederate victory

• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Strong military leadership, defending their own homes, Home field advantage

• Union advantages

• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam

• Confederate advantages

• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

Southern General for the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

What was a major strength of the Union?

• education
• slavery
• more churches
• factories

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