Civil War

The painting above originally produced in 1872 by John Gast is known as-

• Lady Liberty

• American Progress

• Westward Destiny

• Amber Waves of Grain

The events above contributed to-

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• the start of the American Civil War

• the creation of the Missouri Compromise

• the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

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

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

Lincoln ordered a blockade of Charleston and the entire south to:

• keep a closer watch on the South

• keep the South from getting any supplies

• catch seafood along the coast

• keep southerners from escaping to the North

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared --

• United State's freedom from Great Britain
• an end to the Civil War
• freedom for slaves in rebellious southern states
• the beginning of Reconstruction

What was the most important advantage the North had during the Civil War?

• unified popular support for the war effort
• superior military leadership
• economic aid from Great Britain and France
• greater human and economic resources

What advantage did the South have the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing
• more effective navy
• better government
• more capable military leaders

Ulysses S. Grant was to the Union as ___________ was to the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis
• Stonewall Jackson
• Robert E. Lee
• Abraham Lincoln