Civil War

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

What was a major strength of the Union?

• education
• slavery
• more churches
• factories

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What was a major weakness of the Confederacy?

• more factories
• smaller populations
• larger populations
• poor populations

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout 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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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The speech above shows that Lincoln believed that the South should--

• be allowed to continue the practice of slavery
• pay for the damages suffered by the Union
• receive fair treatment after the war
• be punished for seceding from the Union

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to 

• uphold national honor
• prevent foreign involvement
• free all slave 
• preserve the Union

After the Civil War a significant cause of the conflict between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans in Congress was a disagreement over

• the plans for restoring Southern states the union

• reduction of the army

• a perposal to repeal the Emancipation Proclamation

• congressional efforts to pay the Confederate war debt

In declaring its intention to secede from the Union in 1860, South Carolina was affirming its position on

• civil rights
• states' rights
• individual rights
• unalienable rights

Which word means to leave or become unassociated with?

• Secede
• Ironclad
• Border State
• Casualty