Civil War

The Confederates were fighting a(n)

• offensive war
• defensive war

The Union wanted to control the Mississippi River so that

• it could control the movement of trade and goods
  
• it was a natural division to “split the South”
• it was an easier invasion route to the South than by land
• all of the above

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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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The name given to the North

• Confederacy

• Rebels

• Union

• Revolutionaries

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?

• Yes

• No

The name given to the South

• Confederacy

• Rebels

• Union

• Revolutionaries

Who won the Civil War?

• Union
• Confederates

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

What was the name of the General that led the Union into Gettysburg?

• Stonewall Jackson
• George G. Mead
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln