Module 18 Lesson 1 The War Begins

One Northern strategy for winning the Civil War was 

• to offer Native Americans land in the South if they would fight for the Union.
• a naval blockade of the South to cut off imports and exports with Europe. 
• to capture Texas and attack the rest of the Confederacy from the west.
• to defend their homes and hold off the South until they became tried of fighting. 

What was one advantage the North had over the South in the Civil War? 

• The North had more railway that could efficiently transport troops and supplies. 
• Northern farms had more livestock than Southern plantations did. 
• Unlike Southern slaves, the North had free African Americans as fighting soldiers. 
• All of these answers are true. 

Union troops were mostly made up of men who were 

• born in the United States. 
• German and Irish. immigrants 
• Native Americans. 
• African Americans. 

Which was NOT a border state? 

• Missouri 
• Kentucky
• Iowa 
• Maryland

The Confederacy fought in the Civil War in order to ...

• protect their citizens from attack. 
• end slavery immediately. 
• save the Northern economy.
• to preserve their way of life, which depended on slavery. 

The Union fought in the Civil War...  

• to end slavery immediately. 
• to preserve and protect the Union.
• to punish the slaveholders. 
• because Lincoln was angry about secesion. 

Large farms that produce crops for money.

• Plantations

• Factory

• Slavery

• Territories

The name give to the north was what?

• Confederacy
• Rebels
• Union
• Revolutionaries

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Britain would help South based on their textile needs

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Triangle Trade

• England-Missouri Trade Agreement

• Northern Trade Tariff

1st battle that started the Civil War - 34 hours long

• Battle of Antietam

• 7 Day's Battle

• 1st Battle of Bull Run

• Fort Sumter