Civil War

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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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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What do we call the states where slavery was legal but they did not secede and join the Confederate states?

• Western States

• State of Confusion

• Border States

• Southern States

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

In 1860, this caused widespread fear in the South about the future of slavery.

• the election of Jefferson Davis

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• Missouri Compromise

What was the major goal of the Confederacy at the onset of the Civil War?

• To overthrow the government and set up a monarchy

• To become an independent country

• To spread slavery to the North

• To eliminate slavery in the border states

What was Lincoln's original goal in fighting the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery

• to end British control of the Western territories

• to make a profit selling war supplies

• to preserve the Union

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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