Civil War/Reconstruction

Which number on the map labels the state that first seceded from the Union?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

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Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

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One reason South Carolina chose to leave the Union was because:

• the other states refused to trade with South Carolina

• people in SC believed their state's rights were being denied

• our state was too far away from the state capital

• plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses

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The firing on Fort Sumter took place because:

• The Union wanted to get control of the fort.

• The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.

• The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.

• The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.

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Why did the Union take over Port Royal?

• to have a place in the South where it could build textile mills

• to capture the slaves there and make them work for the Union

• to get a base in the South where it could keep soldiers and supplies

• to force the white plantations owners there to leave

The Union General that forced General Lee to surrender at Appomattox.

• Fort Sumter
• Abraham Lincoln
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant

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A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Gone with the Wind
• Across the Lines
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg

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War between people of the same country

• secede
• state's rights
• civil war
• slavery

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

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