Civil War

Why did West Virginia become a state?

• To help Virginia lower its population
• Disagreements between eastern counties that needed slavery and western ones who wanted it abolished
• Development in the industrial economy and the western territories wanting to expand
• Arguments between northern and southern VA counties over slavery

Who won the war?

• Confederacy
• Union
• England
• France

The Confederates were fighting a(n)

• offensive war
• defensive war

Even though these were states where slavery was legal, they did not secede and join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

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

The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Fort Pillow
• Fort Apache

What was a major strength of the Union?

• education
• slavery
• more churches
• factories

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What was a major weakness of the Confederacy?

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

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