USI.9b-c: Secession

What event caused many southern states to secede?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Abolition of Slavery

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Firing on Fort Sumpter

What country did the southern states that succeeded create?

• The United States of America

• The Conch Republic

• The Confederate States of America

• West Virginia

Who felt that secession was not allowed, and that the US was one nation that could not be divided?

• Native Americans

• Lincoln and Northerners

• Southerners

• Enslaved African Americans

What did Southerners believe about Secession?

• It was not allowed by the Constitution.

• States that had freely joined the union could leave it too.

• State laws should be more powerful than national laws.

• It was all South Carolina's fault.

What happened when Virginia decided to Secede?

• It caused war to break out.

• The western part of the state seceded from Virginia, creating West Virginia.

• They attacked the other states that had seceded.

• Nothing

What event officially started the Civil War?

• The secession of 7 states from the Union.

• Confederate forces in South Carolina attack Fort Sumpter.

• The Election of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy.

• The surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Virginia.