Civil War Review Day 1

What warning did Abraham Lincoln give to the South in his first Inaugural Address?

• That he would end slavery in the South.

• That he would preserve the Union at all costs.

• That he would destroy their way of life if they did not come back into the Union.

• That "King Cotton" was dead and they needed to rethink their economy to survive.

Several southern states seceded from the Union immediately following Lincoln's election. Which was the first?

• Texas

• Maryland

• Virginia

• South Carolina

The first shots of the Civil War were fired where in 1861?

• New Orleans

• Richmond, Virginia

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

Who did the Confederacy elect as their president?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

Why were border states such as Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland so important to the North?

• They were the first southern states to outlaw slavery and fight for the North

• They were the location of most of the first Union victories in the Civil War.

• While theses states allowed slavery, they did not secede and acted as an important "buffer zone" between the North and the South

• They were more important to the South because they remained loyal to the Southern cause